ART MUSEUM CRITIQUE . 1) Which museum did you visit? I visit University of Utah museum. . 2) Describe at least one of the permanent collection exhibits on a theme, period, geographic region, or topic) within the museum. When I sent there I see one of the permanent collection of the University of Utah museum, is the Gathering of Samurai Daimyo and His Samurai Retainers thats the name of the painting. It made of woodcut, ink and paper. The date it creates is 19 century. The period is Meiji. The height of this art is 14 inch and the width is 29 inch. In this picture we see 17 men sitting and gathering. They are wearing traditional Japanese warrior clothes or its like a samurai clothes. I notice one of them didnt wear any warrior clothes. I assume that must be the king or some kind of leader. The other warrior just group together maybe talking about plan to defeat the enemy or something. This kind of art is very typical Japanese art. I saw them a lot in movie or TV.
. 3) Give a brief, one paragraph description of a special, temporary exhibit for the temporary one I pick a statue of Ushnisavijaya Buddha. Its made from bronze so it had a gold color, make it looks expansive. This statue is from Tibet. Its a bout 12inch tall. This statue is one of the Buddha religions God. He has 8 hands; two of them holding the praying stuff and one of them kind of almost near the chest. He had three faces and his sitting in Stupa. These are God of Long life. They had many Hand might be symbol of helping and all three faces might symbolize he could see and help what human need to be helped with.
. 4) What do you think the museum administration and/or exhibit curators want you to learn or gain from the exhibits you viewed? I think they want us to learn about art from other country and from period to period. Because I could see that some of the art are not will be long to be there. Some of them are a month and more then they will move it to other place to be shown to crowd. Some of the art are related to religion like there are a lot of painting about Christianity stuff like Holly Marry and Jesus. This might be they want us to learn that every religion have their art to. They sometimes send their message using art. . 5) What kind of information is provided about the works? Where might you look for further information if you were interested? The information I can find in the museum is not much for the work. I could find the name of the creator, the name of the art, and the date. Some of them have long stories about it and some of them only been mention that. I do ask to the people there in the information desk. The place that we could find more information for this work is from the website it self. Some of the people there could answer the stuff we ask but I dont see a lot of people walking around waiting for people to ask question. . 6) Choose several works that particularly appealed to you. Explain why you were drawn to these works. Comment on the subject, style, medium, time period, etc. Who were the artists? What message do you think the artists were trying to convey in the works you chose to discuss? There is one of the art that I really like and its located in second floor of the building. It placed in the corner. The Art called the Breathless (self portrait in blue) it is a sculpture of a men head that are colored and glazed blue in ceramic materials. You can see it holding its breath and both of his eyes seems bulge out. His like almost couldnt hold his breath anymore. I like this sculpture because it seems very interesting to me. It is very humorous and funny. It is less boring then some of the art I see in my opinion. The sculptor of this art is Arneson Robert (1930-1992). This art remind me people that hold it breath under the water. The blue color symbolize the color of water and the face and expression symbolize how he hold his breath in the humorist way. I see that a lot of his art is more into humors rather than meaning from it. 7) How did the artworks you looked at relate to material we have discussed in class? (They do relate in many ways, you just need to look for those relationships). All the art work in that place most of them related to the material in class. I see a lot of Buddhist and Hindu God as their sculpture in the museum, and we discuss that before about the Buddhist and Hindu. Then there is a lot of Christianity paintings and arts. We discuss that in class ad well. I see some native American Indian tribe art. There are some sculpture that are only part of it like its head or hands or missing the head. It might be because of the war back in that time. So it makes the sculpture feel down and break apart. . 8) What was your personal reaction to this experience? Would you enjoy attending this type of event again? Why or why not? My reaction to this its like a normal assignment that we should attend to the museum so we could get score from it. I dont meet anybody that I know in the museum, it would be fun if I went there with someone I know because when I went there I only get all the things to do at the assignment and went back home. I dont enjoy this kind of event at all. Because I dont really like going to museum to watch all the arts there. I rather do or make the art it self. So I went there with my brother and he wait inside the car for 15 minutes because he had other things to do. I came inside and I see a small gift shop on the left, I really like going to the gift shop. I think I could spend much time more in the gift shop than inside the museum. So went inside the museum and do the stuff as I can because I had limited time. Over all I dont really enjoy going to the museum. If I went to other country I dont go to the museum but I will visit their zoo and do culinary.