Understanding the Art Museum ch 3 questions

Art from Metropolitan Museum

Period: Early Bronze Age III

Date: ca. 2300–2000 B.C.

Geography: Central Anatolia

Culture: Hattian

Medium: Copper alloy

Dimensions: H. 6 1/4 x W. 5 3/4in. (15.9 x 14.6cm)

Classification: Metalwork-Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955

Accession Number:55.137.5

Date: mid-900s

Geography: Made in probably Constantinople

Culture: Byzantine

Medium: Ivory

Dimensions:Overall: 6 5/16 x 5 1/8 x 1/4 in.(16 x 13 x 0.6 cm)

Classification: Ivories

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number:17.190.133

The Love Song

Artist: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham)

Date:1868–77

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions:45 x 61 3/8 in. (114.3 x 155.9 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1947

Accession Number:47.26

The information that is given for each work of art includes the name, dimensions, medium, culture, time period, and credit line. These are all aspects of art that are included in a museums description of each piece of art work.

In the Yellowstone Art Museum the large gallery space upstairs is the one I have most visited because that is the gallery that holds the new exhibits that come to the museum. The space is large and can hold a lot of wall art as well as larger sculptural pieces on the floor. The works are arranged on the wall, and are located next to the other pieces made by the same artist. The lighting is focused on the pieces on the walls and in the middle of the gallery giving them the focus within the space. The temperature was at a normal temperature that was not noticeably cold or too hot. The humidity was not noticeable in the gallery space. With larger exhibitions the museum puts up ropes to keep guests from getting too close to the artwork. The gallery spaces do not have windows in them in order to protect the work from the sun while it is on display in the museum.

Kiki Smith

The Woman with Sheep is a piece which the art is located within the space of the viewers causing the guests to move around the pieces as if they were really sleeping in the gallery space. Making the art three dimensional and putting it into the space of the audience causes the viewer to move around and observe the sculptures from different angles.

Bill Viola

Stations a piece by Viola is a screen that is showing an image of a figure that is falling, and is then casting its reflection on a mirror that is placed under to give the effect that the figure is moving to the mirror on the floor. The screens are separated from the wall which gives them a more ominous feel because of the dark environment combined with the strange figure falling through the space.

Jenny Holzer

Holzer’s work relies on text that is projected on a large scale onto monuments or other popular locations. The effect of her work is greater that it would be in a gallery space. Because it is out and projected on important building and monuments it gives It a more important and intimidating feel.