Art Institute of Chicago

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1. For this assignment I choose to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. I choose to journey down town to see the so much talked about Vincent Van Gogh exhibit. As a waited in line I meet a student of Colombia College he told me that you do not have to pay to get in donations are welcome. I was confused and unsure what he meant. He explained to me that College students could offer a donation of one dollar or fifty cents as admission to the museum. So from the start my experience was very positive. Many people were discussing the exhibit. Everyone seemed to be very impressed. The lines for the entry were so long due to the tight security because of American on alert. It was good to see since the museum has so many valuable and irreplaceable.

I can recall visiting Elmhurst Art Museum. My mom was most impressed with Kathryn Schneider's collection titled Places of Grace. The photo that I was drawn to was titled Peace Like a River. This photo captured nature at its most peaceful state. A gentle reflection of the surrounding trees lay calmly upon the river expressing a perfect mirror reflection. My mom has a calendar that she purchased there.

The calendar states. Kathryn's artwork is

10. My overall experience of the art museum was a positive one. Before hand I really didn't know what to expect from the museum. But after spending a couple of hours there, I grew to appreciate the arts a little more than I did in the past. Since I really have a good understanding about art before, after leaving the museum it made want to learn and find out more about the arts. What I did learn was that you can learn a lot from a painting, and it may be interrupted in many different ways, but so is life.

2. The photography on display in the gallery was "The Idea of Lewis Sullivan and Edward Winston, The Last Carmel." I felt the overall atmosphere in the photography exhibit made me was average experience for me. It doesn't stand out like the other rooms did. I just enjoyed the Vincent Van Gogh exhibit it was hard for me to compare it to anything else. I just really was not interested in the photography exhibit. I guess I can say that I thought Edward Winston's "The Last Camel" was more satisfying to the naked eye. His pictures in his book captured many horizons, and the waters, which made it visible how beautiful a night and day can be. The book kind showed his feeling in the pictures he was taking. Overall it could have been better but it was cool to see what others can do with a camera.

5. 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 favorite painting if Van Gogh's was the one entitled, Fishing Boats at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He draws the seas and ships, which he sailed on. Here Van Gogh makes an effort to show the horizon line to place more emphasis on the sea and it's ships. What make this so unique are the colors of the pictures. What I found o

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