ART

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVdw60eCnJI

Watch the above Ted talk about the difference between art and craft before answering the question:

1.  When was the difference between Art and Craft established? This will be important to remember as you continue to view and experience art in the future.

The MFAH art collections and exhibitions are presented primarily at the Museum’s Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus in three main gallery buildings: the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Caroline Wiess Law Building, and the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. The campus also features the  Cullen Sculpture Garden (Links to an external site.) ,  Glassell School of Art (Links to an external site.) , and  Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza (Links to an external site.) .

 

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Audrey Jones Beck Building  (Links to an external site.)

The Beck Building, named for MFAH patron Audrey Jones Beck, features galleries for changing exhibitions as well as for the Museum’s collections of ancient art, European art, photography, prints and drawings, and American art to the mid-20th century.

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Caroline Wiess Law Building  (Links to an external site.)

The Law Building, named for MFAH patron Caroline Wiess Law, features galleries for changing exhibitions as well as for the Museum’s collections of Asian, African, Islamic, Native American, Pacific Islands and Australian, and Pre-Columbian art.

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Nancy and Rich Kinder Building  (Links to an external site.)

The Kinder Building, named for MFAH patrons Nancy and Rich Kinder, is devoted to the display of the Museum’s international collections of modern and contemporary art.

 

WE END OUR CLASS BY BEGINNING........Our class has just been an introduction to the world of art which I hope you will continue to enjoy and explore. We have already learned to use the Menil Collection, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For this Assignment, we will select from the Museum Fine Arts Houston Collections.

"It might be said that the history of what we call art is a conversation that continues on, as our contemporary present passes on to become some future  generation's classical past." "if we are so inclined, we might even start to see every work of art as a complementary part of some undefined, unified whole of past human experience, a trail that leads right to our doorstep, and continues on with us and is open to anyone who wants to explore it."TedEd

 

SELECT THREE WORKS OF ART FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON COLLECTIONS. One from each of the buildings.

Describe the works In the same way that you have been, including some of the important Cultural context from the Module Materials or your textbook.

Be generous with your information (As if you are explaining it to someone who has never seen work from other cultures.

Work 1.  Work 2 Work 3.