B-Law and Humanities Disc ****PROFESSOR ANTHONY ONLY****
Bigricker12
humanities_disc_response_wk_2.docx1
So I am originally from Florida, I attended the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg for a short time, as well. As a student we had an unlimited access to the most beautiful architectural piece of art I have ever seen.
The Salvador Dali museum itself. Of course his work is marvelous but the actual museum is breathtaking.
If you've ever looked at a lava lamp, you see the blobs-for lack of a better word- of goo slowly moving through the liquid. Well, Imagine a tiny toy building at the base of the lamp inside this liquid. What do you suppose it would look like? That is what the museum looks like.
It's a beautiful square structure with lava-lamp-goo-shaped window panes wrapped in such a way. The shape is created with over 1,000 pieces of triangle-shaped glass.
Inside the museum is also this beautiful spiral staircase that just looks incredible. If you look up from the staircase you can see right through the glass into the sky.
According to the creator the staircase was a dedication to Dali's obsession with the structure of DNA in a double-helix fashion.
The museum itself sits water-front in downtown St.Petersburg, FL and has over 2,000 pieces of art within its walls. It was opened to the public in January of 2011.
The famous architect that designed the museum is named Yann Weymouth, a native of Spain, and the process was over $36 million.
This structure of art, to me, is the most beautiful because it represents home.
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/architecture/picture-galleries/2011/march/22/an-architectural-tour-around-the-36-million-salvador-dali-museum/?view=thumbs
http://www.hok.com/design/type/civic-cultural/the-dali-museum/
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One of my favorite pieces of art has got to be Handmade baskets woven or welded but my all time favorite is my wooden hand woven basket that I have had for 11 years now and it is a light brown with a large braided handle. I love all the articulate details the basket has from having a real person create it and envision it instead of something flimsy that is just patched up together without much thought. The designer of this basket was a young girl in her older teen years who created many baskets for pioneer day back in my hometown. I remember her describing how passionate she was about basket weaving and how she made it a living because she wanted to do something that she was passionate about and that was really inspiring to me back then. the age of the basket is calculated to be about 11 years old when I got it. I know it only took a couple of weeks for the basket to be started and done with so its from 2003 and its still holding up SUPER well. Today my basket is within my home in Delaware where I use it daily. The original intended function of my basket was to garden. A lot of people were told these baskets were used by many pioneers for gardening, picking berries or eggs but overall it was a multi use item.
The significance of handmade baskets to me is very significant because I love history and I like basket's universal use. Every single country has their own kinds of baskets and United states has so much rich history that has to do with baskets. Many Native Americans in the earlier days made a living selling baskets and trading them. I like how my basket in particular has a history and It makes me feel special when I use it and touch it. I like the feeling it gives me when I touch it because of it's soft wooden texture that is braided yet silky and those are aspects that were described.
There are many well known basket weavers that contributed to the history of basket weaving and the passion it took to make them. Captain Andrew Jackson Sandsbury was at sea on a lightship for most of his life and yet on his downtime he wove baskets. I loved reading his biography and this quote from it "When seas were calm Sandsbury wove lightship baskets. He was in those days and today a very well respected basket maker. " (auth:Virginia Turner Sandsbury Friberg) Knowing that it was a well respected skill in those days (1830-1902) was very fascinating to me since today maybe people may not see basket weaving with that same view of respect. I have many baskets with different designs and cultural references and I do think they all speak to me in their own way but I love my wooden hand woven basket the most because of it's history and durability with braided art. I feel proud to own it and see it each day.
