Professors (2016)
Tags
- Aaron Gilbert
- Abstract
- Albert Bierstadt
- american
- American Art
- art
- A Storm in the Rocky Mountains
- Awesome
- Brooklyn
- brooklyn museum
- Canvas
- Cassatt
- coffin
- death
- discussion
- Egypt
- egyptian
- Faile
- Fallen Bierstadt
- french
- George Washington
- John Biggers
- Landscape
- Life
- love
- Macaulay
- modern
- museum
- Nature
- Night at the Museum
- nyc
- Oil
- Oil on Canvas
- oil painting
- painting
- portrait
- rembrandt
- sculpture
- Statue
- Still life
- temple
- two ivans and oksana
- valerie hegarty
- Web of Life
- woman
Night at the Museum
by: Alexandra Badescu, Annmarie Gajdos, Stephanie Angus, Rehmat Sakrani
Our group mainly discussed the artist's intentions and our interpretations of them. We also talked about the historical context and the formal properties of the art piece. If we had more time, we should have talked more about the subject matter.
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Seated Figure of Nakhtsaes
by: Maria Bilello, Denisha Deonarine, Christian Buonamassa
This is the Seated Figure of Nakhtsaes, a headless statue sitting down, which is very faded and dilapidated. We used description, interrogation, and historical context. We weren’t able to use formal properties, subject matter, and artist’s intention. If we had more time, we’d like to delve into the artist’s intention, and compare what he wanted use to take from the piece to what we inferred.
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Tagged Charles Edwin Wilbur Fund, Elizabeth Heath, Esther Allen, Seated Figure of Nakhtsaes, Statue, Zoe Sheehan-Saldana
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A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt
by: Sanjeda Patwari, Mosammat Ireen Alam, Mahfuza Sabiha
During our conversation at the museum we used description, formal properties, subject matter, and historical context as we analyzed our chosen landscape painting of the Rocky Mountains by Albert Bierstadt. We left out interrogation and artist's intention because those are analyses viewers would consider after spending a long time thinking and looking at the painting. As our conversation was on the spot, we, like most viewers, analyzed the most obvious aspects of the paintings and talked about the more superficial points before thinking about the meaning behind the painting.
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Tagged A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Albert Bierstadt, art, Ball, brooklyn museum, Landscape, Minter, painting
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Egyptian Art
by: Nicole Budzinski, Marlena Osei, Grace Ronan
We used description, interrogation, formal properties, historical context and artist's intention. We didn't really use subject matter/ content. We could of used more historical context. If we had more time we would add music and maybe include more photos. We need more specific description within the imovie.
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The First Harvest in the Wilderness – Asher B. Durand
by: Karen Li, Jackie Li, Emily Burrag, Alisa Mizukami
Some analysis we did in the conversation are historical context, interrogation, formal properties, and artist intention. The historical context of the manifest destiny guided our interpretation of the artwork, because we understood why the location was a forest, and why there were so many people that were painted in the background. We also interpreted some imagery as a symbol for god, or hope for the future because we knew that the manifest destiny dealt with such subject matters. We also discussed the different formal qualities, including contrast of color between the forest and the sky, and the composition of the painting that guides the viewer from one aspect of the painting to another. The emotions that were evoked were also sadness, due to the desolate nature of the painting.
We covered most of the basic analysis, however we did not discuss much of the artist's intention. If we had more time, we would have liked to discuss what the artist might have wanted to convey in this specific painting, as opposed to some of the other paintings that also depict the manifest destiny.
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Tagged Braverman, Durand, Landscape, manifest destiny
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Brooklyn Museum Death Cart
by: Neeru Bhagirath, Natallie Chavesta, Andrew Betz
In our conversations, we focused on the aesthetics and the information provided because we didn't have much background information. We used our background of religion to understand our art piece. We didn't focus immensely on historical context because of our lack of knowledge. If we had more time, we would have liked to explore more of the pieces in the same time period.
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The Peaceable Kingdom
by: Haolin Chen, Haoxiang Chen, David Chung Loo, Ban Chung
We made description of the painting, identify the objects and their relationship with each other. We asked questions about what some of these objects are. We asked about the positions of the objects. We didn't talk about the texture, line, color, and genres. We were looking at the surface of the art. We talked briefly about the colonists and Native Americans. We had a history discussion. We finally talked about the author's intent. If we had more time, we would have talked more about the colors or the lines.
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Brooklyn Museum
by: Paul Kim, Joseph Simone
We've talked about the artistic details of the painting as well as its meaning. We should've expanded on the artist's purpose of the painting. I wish we had more time.
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A Resting Place of Prisoners
by: Juan Cambeiro, Arwa Abdelhamid and Jeremy Sipe
In our conversation at the museum, we discussed the significance of the painting and how different elements of the painting combined to convey Vasily's intended message – that war is a dehumanizing experience and that it should be avoided at all costs. However, we did not discuss the contouring, value, shading, or gradients.
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A little Taste Outside of Love
by: Kimberly Calderon, Grace Paré, Noorulain Paracha
This video was a good first attempt at an analysis of a work of art. While we were able to effectively analyze the image formally and to add some insight into its historical significance, we didn’t really have enough information around the artist’s intentions and views to fully flesh out an argument for what its purpose was. In addition, we weren’t able to get really good pictures of the work, as the lighting in the Brooklyn Museum was too dim. We have used pictures of the work that we found online, and close up shots which displayed the rhinestones which we wanted to detail were not available. It was a good thing that we went to see the work in person, because the full effect of its size and glamour cannot be realized from photos. The impressive quality of the work in person was what drew us to it in the first place and made us choose to analyze it.
In a perfect situation, we would have had some time to look up the artist before seeing this work, so that we’d have an idea of her beliefs and aims. This would be incredibly helpful in deciding how we should interpret the awe inspiring work that we saw. We’d also have had better cameras and lighting so that we’d be able to show the viewers of our video just exactly how every detail of the work contributed to the final, beautiful piece.
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