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SPSU ARTS 2001 Guide for visit to the High Museum of Art, Louvre Exhibit Summer 2007 (revised from Fall 2006 as different sections change at the museum)

(High Museum, 1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta, 30309, 404-733-4400; )

Assignment: Visit the High Museum of Art, view art, answer questions/activities and type a report.

Objective to see special Louvre exhibit and comment on it, then view rest of High-Atrium Gallery with 20th Century Contemporary Art and then the Stent wing with many historical periods. In addition view 2nd floor of Wieland Pavilion Special Exhibition of Morris Lewis. Use the suggested tour guide outline-there are some questions for specific art works -try to answer if time.

** You must attach to your typed report that you turn in verification that you visited: attach the ticket/sticker and a photo of yourself at the Museum.**

Time: 2+hours, allow a minimum of 2 hours to visit the High. (A 2 hr. visit is just a highlight, quick survey of the collection and special exhibitions. In-depth viewing will require additional time and is recommended.)

Suggested visit schedule: (45min to 1 hr. at Louvre (Chambers Wing); 15 min in Wieland Pavilion Contemporary Art; 45 min. in Stent Family Wing; 15 minutes 2nd floor of Wieland: Annie Leibovitz and Cecilia Beaux Exhibits. )

Suggested Route:

- Start in on Lobby Level of Weiland Pavilion

- view Louvre Atlanta: Faces of History & Myth in the entry of Anne Cox Chambers Wing 1st floor

- view Louvre Atlanta: Decorative Arts 214-216 on second level

- view Louvre Atlanta: Kings as Collectors in Galleries 422-424 on Skyway level

Cross over bridge from Anne Cox Chambers Wing to Skyway Level of Weiland Pavilion and tour galleries 411-421.

***Cross over bridge from Skyway Level of Weiland Pavilion (near Gallery 412) to Skyway Level of Stent Family Wing ***View the Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti **** notice perspective, the high relief sections and the low relief sections. Figures are generally in the front of the picture plane closest to the viewer.

- Starting on the 4th floor, view galleries on each floor; use ramp to get to each lower level, 3rd floor, 2nd floor, then Robinson Atrium.

- Visit Green Family Learning Gallery on Lobby Level of Stent Family Wing

- Walk back to Lobby Level of Wieland Pavilion; go to 2nd floor to view Morris Lewis Special Exhibition; take elevator to visit Lower Level of Weiland Pavilion (African Art, photography, works on paper)

What to do at the museum: (Note: These are basic guidelines that could be followed for any museum.)

Gather information to answer the specific writing assignment questions. (Another sheet)

Look at all the artworks. You will be drawn to artworks based on your interests and preferences. You will need to pay special attention to the wall texts and a few specific artworks, which will be identified.

Read the Introductory Wall Texts (IWT): Provides broad overview of an exhibition. This is at the entrance of an exhibition, also at the beginning of a collection or special section of a gallery.

Read the Secondary Wall Texts; Provides general information for artworks in a gallery or section. The Secondary Texts are usually at the entrance to a gallery or are between galleries/rooms. (Read through them (quickly is ok) to find out why the artworks have been arranged or hung together, and what the art works are about, such as themes, subject matter, technique, time period, time created etc).

Look at labels for individual artworks. Provides information on the specific artwork. They will include; artist, title, date, medium, and sometimes more background or detailed information regarding that specific artwork and/or the artist. An individual artwork label is next to an artwork usually to right just below eye level.

Read labels that are specifically identified in assignment. Read others per your interest and available time.

Look carefully at the artworks. Notice things about them that you can only see in real life looking at the original artwork. Move closer to (but not closer than 3 feet) and back away from individual artworks. Look at artworks from across the gallery/room; scan a gallery to notice relationships between the images, notice size and scale and what “Pops” out from a distance, etc.

****Notice such things as: photographs: clarity, details, contrast, values, gloss; Paintings: brush strokes- the way the paint has been applied, thick or thin, wide or narrow, texture or none; light source, highlights, shadows, reflection on the canvas; colors-palette selection, darks, lights, dull, bright, primary, pastel etc; Subject matter-image itself; image-clarity, close-up and from farther away how does the artwork change to the viewer; picture plane- 2-D vs. 3-D quality, depth, perspective; size-scale of artwork. Sculpture and 3-D: height, depth, width, type material(s), surface texture(s), proportions, scale, etc.)

Notice similarities with art works & time periods in the SPSU Arts 2001 curriculum, textbooks, classroom presentations etc.

Walk through the galleries to view the High’s Permanent Collection primarily American Art form 19th cent to 20th C. Many of the artists featured are in the texts and will be discussed during the class. Seeing original artwork created by them will help you. Some galleries have different types of artworks from the same time period displayed together, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts- (furniture, ceramics, silver, glass etc.)

Remember to save your sticker/ticket

and

take a photo of yourself at the museum

Museum Visit Outline: Take notes/write on this paper at museum in pencil only- then Type Report 12 pt., sequence information as requested by part and number

Attach museum admission sticker to report, top right corner. Attach photo.

Date visited__________

Student: Class Time: 10 or 11

Due [On time___Late___date___Points___Grade____]

Self guided Tour for ARTS 2001 Fall 2006:

Part I Exterior: Notice the sculptures and buildings.

1. Sifly Piazza Sculptures. Bronze Shade by Rodin, House 111 by Lichtenstein. What is your impression of, what do you think about House III?_(colors, scale, relationship to other buildings,)

2. The architect for the 1983 High, now the Stent Wing was Richard Meier. The Architect Renzo Piano designed a master plan for the Woodruff Arts Center that included the new Chambers Wing and Wieland Pavilion. Where do you see repetition and/or pattern in these buildings?

Part II: Entrance: Lobby Level of Wieland Pavilion

Enter building; get a permit for a pencil and (if you brought one) a camera permit from the security desk. (There are free headphones/audio guide for the Louvre exhibit. Try to use them on your visit- but note that the assignment may be done without audio guide –just read the wall text and labels on the wall.)

Look at sculpture outside the lobby, Balzac/Petanque by Oldenburg & van Bruggen, (Peaches & Pears)

Part III: (45 min in Louvre Special Exhibition.) Use Audio Guide. Select a few artworks to look at read/listen more closely. Try to select at least one from each section. Be sure to view the works by three “Masters” Poussin , Rembrant and Valezques at the center of the Skyway level. *(You may do an expanded report on this exhibition for extra credit)

Start in Anne Cox Chambers Wing Lobby - view Louvre Atlanta: Faces of History & Myth in lobby, The King’s Drawing Room in Galleries 214-216 on second level and Kings as Collectors in Galleries 422-424 on Skyway level

Enter the Lobby, read Title wall and Introductory Wall Text. Who organized the exhibition? _____________

*Identify an artwork on one of the three levels that you liked or found interesting and explain why.

Title Date

Medium

Subject

Description

Why selected

What are your reactions to A. the works by the three “Masters” and B. the Louvre Atlanta exhibition in general? (One paragraph)

Part IV (15 minutes) Cross bridge to Skyway Level Weiland Pavilion, Galleries 411-420, 20th Century Art- (notice artworks colors, size, scale and how you respond to them) A few artworks have information cards by them, called A Closer Look, to help explain the artworks.

In Gallery 413, find the artwork by Keifer. What is the surface like?

Look at Untitled by Tony Smith in Gallery 412. What do you notice first?

In Wieland Pavilion, look at the ceiling and skylights. How does the natural light, height, gallery size and space between artworks effect the way you view the art, and the way you feel in the space?

Cross the bridge from Gallery 412 to enter the Stent Family Wing. (45 minutes - 15 minutes per floor) in original Meiers Building. The Galleries include works from the High’s Permanent collection, fine and decorative arts including furniture are displayed by time periods and/or styles and chronological time line.

Part V Stent Family Wing Skyway Level: Start in Gallery 401, walk through Galleries 401 to 410. Notice folk art in 406-409, sculpture & Craig artwork in 410.

****View the Gates of Paradise Special Exhibition*** Notice the high and low reliefs, the use of perspective, where the figures are located. Write your reaction to being in front of the real artworks. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part VI Stent Family Wing 3rd Floor: - American Art, Mid to Late –19th Century

Walk through Galleries 301 to 310. On this floor notice the subject matter for the artworks: Portrait, Religion/Mythology, and Scenes from everyday life-Genre, Historical Events, Landscape, Still life. Try to identify the time period, and /or styles.

Go to Gallery 303 Look on a nearby wall for a painting by Carlsen, c 1926. What is the title?_________

Continue to Gallery 306. Try the fun activity of “cropping” or “framing” a photograph. Look at the original by Steiglitz, Winter-5th Avenue, 1892. (AML Text pg 153, used “Straight’, undoctored photography). Photos focus is derived from what is kept and what is eliminated.

Go to Gallery 307. Enter to the right; on the long the outer walls are portraits. Look at the artworks and notice the way they were composed and the different styles of the artists who created them. Look at the brushstrokes, some paintings have wide and bold others not very noticeable. Find the Portrait of Anne by Bellows (a little blond haired girl in a blue dress). What is the artist’s first name?____

Part VII Stent Family Wing 2nd Floor: Permanent Collection Galleries - European Art, 14th –16th Centuries

Walk through Galleries 201 – 210.

Look to the left of the entranceway to Gallery 201, there are examples of Byzantine style (Characteristics include the use of gold leaf, almond eyes, and appearing flat with no depth). Look to the right of the entranceway Italian Renaissance. Find the artwork with green drapery by Bellini, Madonna and Child. Date it was painted?

Look at the far wall directly across from the entrance at the artwork by Nicholas Tournier, The Denial of Saint Peter, C. 1630. The artwork has characteristics similar to the Baroque artist Caravaggio who was known for his innovative use of light as “spotlights”.

Between Gallery 202 and 203 are sculptures. Notice the material/medium made of/from.

Gallery 204 Neo-Classicism to Impressionism. In the center area Corot has two paintings on the same wall that represent nature as it appears so it is called Realism. Monet’s painting Houses of Parliament in the Fog is an example of an Impressionist painting. Impressionism paintings incorporate looser more visible brushstrokes with softer colors than Realism. Stand about 3 feet in front of the painting then slowly back up, watch the painting ‘come into focus’. What year was ‘Fog’ painted in?____

On the outside back wall is a painting Port of London, by Luce. He was a follower of Seurat and it is painted in a Pointillist style. They portrayed scenes from everyday life using small dots of pure color.

Gallery 205 American Art, 18th to Mid 19th Centuries. On the wall straight ahead and just to the left find a portrait of a woman by John Singleton Copley. He is considered one of America’s finest portrait painters. Compare this to other portraits in the room.

Part VIII: Return to Wieland Pavilion

Walk down the ramp to the atrium, stop in the Greene Family Education Center Gallery if you have time.

Go to the Lobby Level of Wieland, Go to the 2nd floor to view the Annie Lebivoitz and Celicia Beaux Exhibits. Compare the two artists and artwork in a paragraph. (subject matter, composition, etc.)_________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

After the 2nd floor take elevator down to Lower Level of Wieland. Visit Galleries 100-102, recent gifts, photography, Works on Paper, African Collection.

Part IX: Personal Observations and Reflections; Identify during visit, write up immediately after.(Type answers/explanation in a few sentences.)

What artwork anyplace in the museum caught your eye? Made you stop and look, question, think. Artist: Title

Medium year made

Subject matter

Description:

Where was it located? Floor and section

What was your immediate reaction when you first saw it?

a.Why did you select it?

b.What did you find interesting?

c.How did it make you feel? Be specific:

What was the artwork you liked the best?

Artist Title

Medium year

Location in Museum

Description.

Why did you select this artwork?

One word or phrase to describe the Museum experience?

Would you recommend the museum? Yes-Why? No-Why-not?

What advice would you give someone before they visited?

Which area of the museum did you like better, why?

Was it your 1st visit to the High? Was this visit a worthwhile experience, worth your time and effort? Yes or no Why?

Explain in one paragraph- what would you like the museum to know about your visit? (What made it good or bad, what helped you to learn about the artworks, what you would have like the museum to add or change, etc.).

Explain in a minimum of one paragraph how the museum visit relates to, supports and/or reinforces the Arts 2001 course you are currently taking. What did you learn? What new questions did you have?

Explain in one paragraph your impression, reflection of viewing original artworks at a museum. Explain how viewing original works of art was different than seeing the art as reproductions in class. What surprised you? What did you notice? How did having artworks together in galleries influence the way you looked at them? How did seeing many artworks by one artist (Morris Lewis) give you a perspective of the artist?

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