Anything and everything museum-related curated by a Museum professional and Museum Studies graduate student
Night at the Mouseion
Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1850-51
Things to think about when studying:
- What event was this structure built for? Where was it built?
- What happened to the building after the event was over?
Gustave Courbet, Stone-Breakers, 1849
Things to think about when studying:
- This is an example of what movement?
- Why was this subject matter so radical for the time? Who are these people and why is Courbet painting them?
Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Things to think about when studying:
- What historical work does Manet reference? How does he update it for the 19th century?
- Why did viewers find this painting so shocking? What symbolic elements add to the shock factor?
- Describe Manet’s painting style - what stylistic and formal elements does he use?
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Smithsonian Gov Exhibit: Hideo Date Collection
The Japanese American National Museum online collection of New York City-based artist Hideo Date (1907-2004) dates from the 1930s to 2004 and includes 178 drawings, prints and paintings.
Born in Osaka, Japan, Date immigrated to California in 1923. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, but left after a year to pursue the study of traditional brush painting in Japan. Date returned to Los Angeles where he spent the 1930s immersed in the burgeoning Los Angeles art scene. Influenced by artist and teacher Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Date was also a part of the Independents, a group of L.A.-based artists who rejected the tenets of modernism.
Date was incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming during the World War II period, where he taught art privately to other Japanese American inmates. He moved to New York City after the war and continued to involve himself with other artists and association
Images: Mandara; After Bach’s Well Tempered Clavichord, Chromatic Fantasy No. 2
