Unlike the Quan Yin statue at home or any of the ones I have seen, it was difficult to pinpoint the gender of this Saint. I often hear people ask if "Quan Yin" was really a female, but throughout my learning experience it was mainly worshipped by women and given the status as female. Perhaps, like Red Azalea by Anchee Min, "Quan Yin" was transformed into a female goddess to promote a heroine, a heroine in Asia. .
As I left, I felt a sense of piety, a piety that I must visit again and again. The Hall of Buddhas gave me a sense of peace: a thought of quietness to gather myself, a peace that I have long forgotten or not shared. .
The next corridor was an exhibit of ceramics of everyday life in the Neolithic period of the Majlayao culture (Machong phase, CA 2300-2000BC Metropolitan Museum plaque). The pottery of this period expresses similarities in the color and shapes to the art found amongst the indigenous cultures elsewhere in the world. On the side was another room with two guardian lions (6th dynasty 220-589). Lion statues were status symbols for great dwellings that were placed outside of main entranceways to promote good and to stop evil from entering in (Feng Shui, Lam 38). In the room at the Museum they guard lacquer images and woodcarvings of Buddhas. Buddha images executed in dry lacquer were highly valued by the Chinese because of the costly time-consuming process required to produce them (Metropolitan Museum wall-plaque). Possibly the lions do serve a purpose here: to prevent any evil beings from entering a room filled with prized lacquer Buddhas. .
The Han dynasty (25-220 CE) exhibit outside in the corridor demonstrated remarkable uniformity. Common pottery such as models of houses and farm structures, were created as funerary objects for burials. The Han period has deeply shaped and cast its roots in contemporary burial rituals. Today, instead of objects made of pottery or metal, paper creations of these model objects are burned for the loved ones to help them settle into their new world during burials.
Art Museum 1. For this assignment I choose to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. ... I can recall visiting Elmhurst Art Museum. ... The underlying theme that was incorporated throughout Van Gogh's works is not connected primarily to the history of art, but what I interpreted as more towards a human art. ... My overall experience of the art museum was a positive one. ...
Georgia graduated high school in 1905 in Virginia and promptly moved to Illinois to live with an aunt and to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. ... There she visited Alfred Stieglitz's art gallery 291 where she was exposed to such artists as Matisse and Rodin. She did not return to the Student League in 1908 as she became discouraged with her work, she instead returned to Chicago and took work as a commercial artist. ... He pioneered the art of photography and introduced America to the art of Picasso, Matisse, and Cezanne. ... In the 1970's people began to have a newfound ...
This is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. ... It was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3,000. ... Still the original of this painting is in remained in Museum of Art Institute of Chicago. ... He loved to paint, art was his life, it was his passion. ... Lots of of his paintings were visited for displayed at the Museum of Germany, London, Cologne and Ludwig. ...
In 1913, Wood moved to Chicago where he set up a jewelry and metal workshop (Peltakian, para. 3). He eventually enrolled at the School of Art institute of Chicago while he lived there. ... He opened this place because he wanted the Midwest to be a significant art center. ... The debut of American Gothic was at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930, where he won bronze and a $300 prize. ... The house quickly became a national memorial and the people came to visit his home (Wood, para. 12). ...
In 1913, Wood moved to Chicago where he set up a jewelry and metal workshop (Peltakian, para. 3). He eventually enrolled at the School of Art institute of Chicago while he lived there. ... He opened this place because he wanted the Midwest to be a significant art center. ... The debut of American Gothic was at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930, where he won bronze and a $300 prize. ... The house quickly became a national memorial and the people came to visit his home (Wood, para. 12). ...
1881: Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, Son of Jose Ruiz Blasco, an art teacher (1838-1913) and Maria Picasso Lupez (1855- 1939) 1884: Birth of the first sister, Dolores (Lola) 1887: Birth of the second sister, Concepcion (Conchita) 1888 89: Started painting tutored by his father. 1891: Translated La Coruña, where his father worked as an art teacher. ... Studying the master works at the Louvers and his nights enjoying the company of fellow artist at cabarets like the Lapin Agile. 1903: In works such as the old guitarist ( 1903;art in...
He also worked on a merchant ship that visited Africa. ... The Harlem Renaissance was an era of extraordinary excellence in African-American art and literature. ... Hughes founded in 1938 the Suitcase Theatre in Harlem, in 1939 the Negro Art Theatre in Los Angeles, and in 1943 he founded the Skyloft Players in Chicago. In 1946 he was elected into the National Institute of Arts and Letters. ...
She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and then traveled Europe for some time, eventually settling in Paris in 1874. ... Motherhood was Cassatt's most desirable theme; interest in this was fed by numerous visits from nieces and nephews. ... In 1890, Cassatt visited an exhibition of Japanese prints in Paris. ... But I feel their stories and work are a great inspiration for women of today, with a message that reaches far beyond the world of art. ... Impressionism : A Feminist Reading : the Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century...
On February 28th I visited Chicago Art Institute, in order to find out more about the Northern Renaissance Art. ... He used realism and dynamic language in his works, and he was called a master of Gothic art. ... Cranach's art, including his portraits became more pedagogical by the Reformation that was spreading very rapidly through Franconia. ...
