Friday, April 25, 2008







this one's for mike....


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picasso is the cutest little man ever....

mondrian

so much cool stuff at the met...

This spring, fresh works of art await your next visit to the Met: Friedlander's stunning photographs of Central Park, Poussin's luminous Arcadian landscapes, and masterpieces of Chinese painting, among many others. Don't miss Jeff Koons on the Roof—on view beginning April 22—on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers spectacular views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline.

Watch the sun set while you sip a cocktail at the Roof Garden Café or savor the offerings at the Petrie Court Café and Wine Bar. The Met is open late on Friday and Saturday evenings!

Special exhibitions are free with Museum admission. Order express admission online through TicketWeb.

Featured Exhibition


Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
Through May 11

This exhibition features approximately 40 photographs made by Lee Friedlander in the public parks and private estates designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America's premier landscape architect. The show also marks the 150th anniversary of the 1858 design for Olmsted's masterpiece, New York's Central Park. See the exhibition preview for more information.

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Image: Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934). Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1992. Lent by the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
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Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings
Through August 10

This exhibition juxtaposes 36 actual paintings and calligraphies with enlarged photographic details that focus on fine points of style and content. The display—which spans nearly 1,000 years of Chinese art history, from the 8th to the 17th century—examines many of the Museum's finest paintings that feature figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, and religious subjects. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

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Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru
Through September 1

From the third millennium B.C. onward, feathers served various ceremonial and secular purposes throughout pre-conquest Peruvian history. On view are examples of high-status apparel and accessories, such as ear ornaments, pectorals, and headdresses. See the exhibition preview for more information.

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Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960
Through October 19

This installation of works from the permanent collection—the second in the Museum's new gallery for contemporary photographs—surveys the ways in which artists have directed the camera toward photography itself, taking aim at its claims of transparency and objectivity, its ubiquity in modern life, and its inextricable ties to advertising and consumer culture. Artists include William Anastasi, Robert Heinecken, and Allen Ruppersberg, among many others. See the exhibition preview for more information.

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Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens
Through June 1

Painted screens depicting books, scholarly accoutrements, antiquarian collectibles, and auspicious objects first gained popularity in Korea in the late 18th century. This special installation presents 4 screens dating from the late 19th to the early 20th century. Also included is a 6-panel collage on the theme by a contemporary Korean artist. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

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Tara Donovan at the Met
Through June 29

Tara Donovan (American, b. 1969) is known for working with commonplace manufactured materials such as tape, Styrofoam cups, and drinking straws to create abstract sculptural installations that often take on a biomorphic feel or resemble topographical landscapes. For a new work conceived specifically for this exhibition, the artist uses Mylar tape to create a wall-mounted installation that encompasses the entire gallery. This exhibition is the fourth in an ongoing series featuring the work of contemporary artists. See the exhibition preview for more information.

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Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection
Through Fall 2009

This installation presents highlights from the Museum's extensive collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the 15th to the 20th century. Included are several recent acquisitions that have never before been exhibited or published. See the exhibition preview for more information.

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Opening Soon

Jeff Koons on the Roof
Opens April 22

On view will be an installation of sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), featuring several of his meticulously crafted works. The pieces will be set in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in New York City: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

While enjoying the view, visit the Roof Garden Café, open Tuesday through Sunday, for a light snack or The Martini Bar, on Friday and Saturday nights, for a signature cocktail.

Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
Opens May 7

This exhibition will explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it will reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects will be organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers will be catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

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Gustave Courbet
Through May 18

This exhibition presents some 130 works by the French artist Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), a pioneering figure in the history of modernism. On display are pieces that range from his seminal manifesto-paintings of the 1850s, to views of his native Ornans, to portraits of his friends and family. They are accompanied by a selection of 19th-century photographs that relate to his work, especially his landscapes and nudes. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Through May 11

French master Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art. In them, nature is endowed with a poetic quality that has been admired by painters as different as Constable, Turner, and Cézanne. This exhibition brings together some 40 of Poussin's paintings, ranging from his early, lyrical, Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

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Jasper Johns: Gray
Through May 4

This exhibition of more than 120 paintings, reliefs, drawings, prints, and sculptures examines the use of the color gray by the American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) between the mid-1950s and the present. Johns has worked in gray, at times to evoke a mood, at other times to evoke an intellectual rigor that results from his purging most color from his works. On view are some of the artist's best-known pieces, as well as new paintings never before exhibited. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

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The Art of Time: European Clocks and Watches from the Collection
Through April 27

This exhibition draws upon the Museum's extensive holdings of English, Dutch, French, German, and Swiss horology, ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th century. Acquired primarily as decorative objects or as a specialized variety of furniture, some of these clocks and watches are equally important in illustrating technical developments in European clock making. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.


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Asian Lacquer: Masterpieces from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection
Through May 11

Lacquer has served as an artistic medium in China, Korea, and Japan for millennia. The exquisite works in this exhibition—varying in size from small boxes for incense to larger containers for sake, and in date from the 14th to the 19th century—also have cultural significance related to the art of writing or to historical and literary themes. See the exhibition preview for more information.

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Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808–1842
Through May 4

This exhibition is the first devoted entirely to Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner's work and its role in commemorating America's pride as a nation. The show features monumental vessels that celebrate naval and civic heroes as well as domestic and personal items, all of which display sophisticated design and skilled manufacture. See the exhibition preview for more information, including sponsorship credits.

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New Met Podcast Episode: Gustave Courbet


Image: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877). Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman, 1866. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

In a new Met Podcast episode, curator Gary Tinterow visits the New York studio of painter John Currin to discuss the special exhibition Gustave Courbet.

The Met Podcast features exclusive audio commentary on our world-renowned special exhibitions, as well as curatorial insights into individual masterpieces, artists' discussions of their work, and explorations of a wide variety of art-related topics.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

hw/cw questions

1. What is the Crystal Palace? Why was it built? Who built it?
2. What is meant by historicism?
3. What new materials were used in the building of the Brooklyn Bridge? Who invented them and why were they so important?
4. What social changes occured as a result of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge?
5. How does the Biblioteque Sainte Genevieve of Paris reflect both learning and technology?
6. Why were the human forms in the Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s the Dance offensive to many Parisians?
7. Describe the difference in the way that Gerome saw history versus how David saw history.
8. Gustave Moreau was preoccupied with what theme from 1860 forward? Why?
9. How does camera obscura work?
10. What principle is photography based on?
11. How did critics view early photography?
12. How did Jean-Francois Millet’s painting The Gleaners represent the fate of humanity?

Choose a topic from below and research that work or artist so that you can discuss the movement, time period, historical context, stylistic characteristics, etc.

-Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe and Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Treasures

-Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, and Death of Marat

-Antonia Canova, any/all of his sculptures

-Henri Labrouste and Joseph Paxton

-Francisco de Goya and Antoine-Jean Gros

-Theodore Gericault and Jean Auguste Ingres

-Eugene Delacroix and Development of Photography and Iron

Define and fully identify one really awesome example that exemplifies the characteristics of the era:
-Realism
-Impressionism
-Post-Impressionism
-Symbolism
-Art Nouveau
-Fauvism
-Cubism
-Futurism
-Constructivism
-Dada
-DeStijl
-Bauhaus
-Surrealism
-Art Deco
-American Scene/American Social Realism
-Abstract Expressionism
-Pop Art
-Color Field Painting
-Conceptual Art
-Performance Art
-Op Art
-Minimalism
-Feminist Art

Sunday, April 13, 2008

check this page out, its an awesome art dictionary, basically....

http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/glossary.html
http://www.snappyprof.com/students/2005_384%20/pop&min.html

Thursday, April 3, 2008

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=05725d2b30298eda1f30

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

hey, i got some random email from some other art history teacher.
and he made a really good website...

so im passing it along to y'all...

it seems really helpful and informative, and it even has some practice tests and questions and the such...

have fun!!!

http://www.westcler.org/gh/curlessmatt/arthistory/syllabus.htm

may 21st field trippppp!!!

on may 21st, we will be going on a super cool adventure into nyc...

permission slips are out, but its on a first come, first serve basis, unfortunately i can not bring all of my starshines...

so get your permission slip signed and your dollars in ASAP!!

we will be going to central park in the morning, (if you have a studio class, you can take photos, sketch, paint, whatever), having a lovely picnic lunch in the park, and then venturing over to the guggenheim to see some cool stuff..

we will be getting a tour of this: http://guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai.html

and then you will have some free time to venture through the museum on your own...

so, get your permission slips in asap!

yay!