Harn Museum Visit
Exhibit Resources, April 2017
Field Trip
MUSEUM ETIQUETTE
If you have any questions pertaining to Museum policies or etiquette, please ask the Information Desk attendant.
Objects including (but not limited to) purses larger than 11 × 14 inches, backpacks, umbrellas and rigid baby carriers that pose a potential hazard to the art are not permitted in the galleries. Items may be checked at the Information Desk.
Touching of objects and display cases is not permitted.
Food, beverages, gum and candy are not allowed in the galleries.
Please silence cell phones when in the galleries.
Non-flash photography, only for personal use, is permitted throughout the museum unless noted otherwise.
Thursday, Apr 20, 2017, 07:15 AM
Harn Museum of Art, Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, United States
MODERN LANDSCAPES
Milton Avery
Herman Herzog
George Wesley Bellows
CHALLENGE: FIND 3 LANDSCAPES
LYRICAL
Landscapes are well represented in the exhibition. Examples from the nineteenth century include views by Herman Herzog and William Morris Hunt that reveal a lyrical appreciation of nature and create a contemplative tone and mood.
EXPRESSIVE
A number of early 20th-century landscapes, such as those by
George Bellows, Ernest Fiene and Leon Kroll, explore the expressive power of line, color and composition.
EMOTIONAL
Painted at mid-century, the landscapes of Milton Avery, Carl Holty and Stuart Purser share an interest in the visual expression of personal experience, emotions and other elusive subjects.
MASQUERADE
Asian Art- SHOW ME THE MINIS
Consider:
How does the size of the artwork impact the viewer's impression?
Does detail matter in smaller works even more than large scale artworks?
Challenge:
Draw one miniature artwork that has surface design showing texture.
PRINT COLLECTION-Meant to be Shared
READ the pdf linked below.
1-NAME four steps to making a print.
1)
2)
3)
4)
2-A fact about Goya:
3-A fact about Manet:
Introduction to Women Artists at the Harn
More than 70 works reveal how these women have transformed the course of art by introducing new forms, materials and processes including performance, film and art in the street. Artists in the exhibition include Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Louis Bourgeois, Rineke Dijkstra, Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta, Zanele Muholi, Louise Nevelson, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Melanie Smith, Carrie Mae Weems and the Guerrilla Girls. These artists are known for challenging patriarchal domination, notions of gender, identity and the art world itself.
Master Class with Carrie Mae Weems
Listen to her speak about her work.
Q-Name something in her talk that caught your attention.
What aspect of art processes was she addressing that interested you?
The Kitchen Table Series, Carrie Mae Weems Interview
Women Artists
Talo - The House
As often seen in the work of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila (1959), the video installation Talo – The House (2002), speaks of extreme psychic experiences. This triple projection shows a young woman in her house, for the artist a “sort of metaphor for the human spirit”, and tells of the slipping of her perception from the limits of reality into a more and more psychotic state. With no apparent emotion, she speaks of the interpenetration of space and time, of the interior and the exterior, and finally shuts herself into the dark by blocking all the windows in her house with black fabric. For Talo – The House, Ahtila used interviews with women who have lived through psychotic experiences. The video oscillates in the fragile equilibrium between sobriety, menace and poetry.
Louis Bourgeois
Rineke Dijkstra
Watch video below.
Bathers Series in Hilton Head and Poland
Q- Do the subjects in the photos look more alike or individually unique based on the artist method of taking the beach photographs?
Yayoi Kusama
"DOTS" as a theme throughout the artists life.
Watch Video below.
Q- What makes Yayoi's artwork unique?
Ana Mendieta, Concepts of Earth, Body, Spirit
Ana Mendieta (18 November 1948 – 8 September 1985) was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who known for her “earth-body” art work.
Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba. At age 12, in order to escape Fidel Castro’s regime, Ana and her sister Raquelin were sent to the United States by their parents. Through Operation Peter Pan, a collaborative program run by the U.S. Government and the Catholic Charities, Mendieta and her sister were moved through several institutions and foster homes in Iowa.
Mendieta’s work was in its essence autobiographical and focused on themes including feminism, violence, life, death, place and belonging. Mendieta often focused on a spiritual and physical connection with the Earth, most particularly in her “Silueta Series” (1973–1980). The series involved Mendieta creating female silhouettes in nature – in mud, sand and grass – with natural materials ranging from leaves and twigs to blood, and making body prints or painting her outline or silhouette onto a wall.
Mendieta was possibly the first to combine the two in what she coined as “earth-body” sculptures.
http://blogs.bgsu.edu/span4890/ana-mendieta/
Challenge:
Write 5 adjectives that describe the figures in her artworks below.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Installation view of Ana Mendieta, Rastros Corporales (Body Tracks), 1982 at ‘Ana Mendieta: Traces’ exhibition, Hayward Gallery 2013 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC
Photo: Linda Nylind