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Dhakal 1

Dhakal 7

Rupesh Dhakal

Professor Richard Miller

ARTS-1301-77204

7 October 2019

Research Paper: Museum Visit 

This paper focuses on my visit to a museum and the art work presented there. I have visited the museum last week particularly for this assignment. The museum name is Dallas Museum of Art.

Part # 1

For this part I have selected an art work named “standing female figure.” Standing Female Figure is belongs to the Mexico: state of Tamaulipas of Huastec culture. This art piece is a part of Early Post-classic period, c. A.D. 900 - 1250 Sandstone Gift of Norbert Schimmel in memory of Evelin Schimmel, 1989.82. It is presented in Dallas Museum of Art. This sculpture is made up of clay. It is of brown color, and visually it is a lady who is standing straight. Its condition is good, but I saw few cracks on it which shows it’s a part of a very old heritage.

Although there is no long description of the art piece on the wall of museum, but the as I research about “standing female figure,” I found that the artist intended to describe the rights of a woman of that time. At the time, in Mexico there are near to no rights given to the woman and the artist observed that issue and created a sculpture with clay with a hope to present a true image and role of a woman in the society. This sculpture “standing female figure” gives a message of equal rights and a very important role of females in building up the community.

In early post-classic period, c. A.D. 900 – 1250, the Mexican people failed to provide equal rights to both the genders and discriminate among male and female. The very important point and message is hidden in this sculpture “standing female figure” that woman have a very important role to create a successful society. There are many emotions connected with this art piece because after thousands of years later this social issue still exists in our world, there are so many places where we swab the rights of women and trying to compress their roles in the society. This art piece “standing female figure” is able to take you in that time.

Here is my picture with the “Standing Female Figure.” It was a great experience of visiting the museum and witnesses so many artworks under one roof. This gave me an opportunity to analysis and learned more about art and the history and messages attached to them. Standing Female Figure seems so old and unique in a way and also describing its message of the female role in a society of its time very simply. It’s a beautiful clay statue, standing and welcoming people who came to visit her and simply explaining the artist’s message.

Part # 2

Recently, I got a chance to visit the "Dallas Museum of Art" for the first time. That evening allowed me to study and examine art on a significant level by building skills and relationships with artworks by the decades. I was assigned the responsibility to choose three artworks and to record a social analysis highlighting the components and beliefs of art before studied in my class. In this part I have selected three art pieces from the collection of the museum. All the pieces of art are fascinated me but few of them were very interesting and on the basis of those three, I will present my report on the art in the society. The three art pieces which I have selected include a sculpture of “Shiva Nataraja,” second is a sculpture of “Durga,” and at the last “Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette.” The sculpture of Shiva Nataraja was created in 11 century. It belongs to the country “India”, Tamil Nadu. It is a part of the heritage of Chola dynasty. It is made of a bronze material. Second is a sculpture of Durga, it belongs to the country India, Rajasthan. A sculpture of Durga was created in the 11 century and the material which is used to make it is “Red Sandstone.” Third art piece which I have selected is Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette. This art piece belongs to the country France and the time period of its invention is around 1798 to 1882, probably 1880s was a time when this art piece was created. The size of a painting is 87.8 x 131.4 cm and the materials of this art piece are oil and canvas, it is an oil painting.

In current years, the Dallas Museum of Art has grown its art pieces which belong to South Asian from a little piece of Indian pagoda statues to approximately 500 products, including Buddhist and Hindu statues from India, Himalayan Buddhist statue of bronze and custom things, art pieces from Southeast Asia, and ornamental arts from Mughal time of India. The sculpture of Shiva Nataraja and sculpture of Durga is a part of this collection, which presents the artwork from the starting period to 14th century. Artworks in the group's own creations from the late Ottoman imperialism to Java and structural arts propose the beauty of structures in the tradition of India. This art piece shows the artistic and cultural importance of more than 140 highlighted pictures, which vary from Indian miniature sketches and Tibetan thangkas to stone and bronze statues("Durga," in_ Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, 2012). Describing certain art pieces to one another by cross-references and interconnecting stories, curators and scholars give a deep cultural history of the country. These all art pieces give me an idea of the importance and value of art from the starting period to 14th century.

The sculpture of Durga is presenting the intercultural values and values and traditions of a particular region of the world. The sculpture of Durga belongs to India and it also touches and connects the Hindu and Baddish culture and tradition. My personal interpretation is based on the story which I have heard after my visit to that museum. The sculpture of Durga fascinates me the most and I personally found a message of this creation. The story of Durga which also presents its message, Durga is the goddess who is a military-style of the Royal Goddess. Durga is apparently described here in her figure as Kali, an angry appearance of the goddess Bhadrakali, whose title indicates the time and is consequently connected with change, destruction, and death. In the great remembered tale regarding Durga, she kills a devil that was looked like a buffalo, and in a dancing dedicating her success she runs out of limitation, moving the world. Her partner, God Shiva, extends down below her soles to embody the consequence of her celebration. Against thought she is grinding her partner, Goddess Durga arrives at her thoughts and returns to rest and calm (Frederick M.,2013). This statue also presenting a message of a power which is totally belongs to the women of this world. How a woman can help her husband, how she can be a part of a great success, and how can she celebrate and free to celebrate in her own way. This art piece is totally gives a message of social responsibility toward right things.

“Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette” is an art piece which makes me able to belong to history. A courageous artist, François-Auguste Biard obtained numerous hallucinations throughout the first component of the 19th century. He connects the audience of his painting with the history of French travellers. He was apparently the greatest European artist to visit to the Arctic Circle and paint icecaps. He was further, as observed in this picture, a classic author of modern history. “Seasickness at the Ball on Board an English Corvette” was portrayed by Francois-Auguste Biard, who is a French painter. This painting, created in the year between the 1860s, was drawn utilizing a smooth brush method and had a recurrence of shades white and red. Biard utilized one tip scene at an edge to accomplish the image of the bottom in the picture. The lady at the middle reading a book is a focal point of a picture. No one else in the picture has as enough importance as her. Accurately and carefully drafted, this jammed picture is an important illustration of passing the English Channel in the center of the 19th century. The pitching ship throws an invented shipboard globe. Toward the portside, a harpist has befallen among the limbs of her fellow guitarist while a junior traveler, composed, proceeds to demand for money. The entire crowd in this artwork includes various means passengers react to a circumstance. Few survive a rough period of seasickness, fall on everyone, cry, and scream, while few vapor, rest, or study, following their normal habits ("A Biard Painting Donated to the Dallas Museum of Art - The Art Tribune", 2019). Listening to attire, diverse classes, and the moment information of characteristics forms a valuable and funny history of French community in the middle of 19th century. This art piece shows an illusion from 15th century to the present date.

The comparison between all of these artworks that are a sculpture of “Shiva Nataraja,” a sculpture of “Durga,” and “Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette,” is very obvious. If we compare “Shiva Nataraja” and “Durga,” then there is not much difference between the culture and people belongs both of the sculptures. Both belong to the Indian culture, and both are the God and Goddess of the Hindu people. There is a relation between both of the sculptures, and that is that “Durga” and “Shiva Nataraja” were husband and wife according to the Hindu people and cultural history. The culture of India is totally different from the remaining world; there are a vast vulture and history of God and Goddess in India. And both of the sculptures presenting the faith, believe, and history of Hindu people and India. If we talk about the painting “Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette,” then we can find many differences from the other two sculptures. This painting was created in the 1860s in the region of France. If we compare both the sculptures “Shiva Nataraja” and “Durga” with a painting “Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette,” then we found much difference among their people, history, and culture that is belonged with all these artworks. Both the sculptures “Shiva Nataraja” and “Durga have belonged to India and Hindu people and “Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette” belongs to French people. The dresses wore by the people in the painting, showing their French culture. If we compare the history and the time of creation, then both types of artworks are from different eras. The painting is presenting a scene of panic, of rough weather, and a ship in a sea, whereas both the sculptures “Shiva Nataraja” and “Durga presenting faith and believe, and hope that has belonged with the God and Goddess.

Work Cited

A Biard Painting Donated to the Dallas Museum of Art - The Art Tribune. (2019). Retrieved 7 October 2019, from http://www.thearttribune.com/A-Biard-Painting-Donated-to-the.html

"Durga," in_ Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, _ ed. Bonnie Pitman (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 100.

Frederick M. Asher, "Durga," in The Arts of India, South East Asia, and the Himalayas, Anne R. Bromberg (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 83.

François-Auguste Biard (1798-1882), Seasickness at the Ball on Board an English Corvette, 1857, Dallas Museum of Art, Gift of J.E.R. Chilton.