{"id":933,"date":"2021-09-14T01:44:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=933"},"modified":"2021-09-14T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:44:18","slug":"museum-visit-9-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/09\/14\/museum-visit-9-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Visit 9\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first walked into the museum, I ran into the Bob Thompson exhibit.  Thompson was a prominent artist in the 50s and 60s.  They were presented with introduction cards to give context for each piece, and although it was grouped by artist, the works were still thematically organized; Thompson&#8217;s works mostly captured themes about the experience of Black Americans.  The exhibit had multiple types of media, with many paintings on linen, oil paintings on wood, and a projector showing the work of the filmmaker Dorothy Levitt Basking showing his work in the studio.  Next to the Thompson exhibit, was the works of Mary Cassatt, which contained a short bio detailing her life, and once again, there were consistent themes she explored about her work.  Downstairs, the Sam L. Cohen gallery demonstrated how art is grouped more thematically. The Multiple Modernism exhibit demonstrated cultural trade-offs between American artists who were inspired by European artists and aspects of their American experience.\u00a0 Although many of the pieces are nearly photorealistic,  the addition of photography as a medium led to the development of pieces like <em>Music Hall<\/em> (Stuart Davis), and to a greater degree, <em>Space Motion<\/em> (Dorothy Morang) demonstrates how these artists also learned to use abstract qualities.\u00a0 Although there are cohesive themes throughout the downstairs gallery, the different techniques and approaches to the abstractness of each artist still can be identified.  Even in the section devoted to Modern and Contemporary art exhibits, many of the pieces were grouped by themes.  With our original discussion on museums and the changing context of art, I found the works that were not grouped by artist to be a more interesting choice of organization, because they relied on the perception of modern art historians to be grouped into collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first walked into the museum, I ran into the Bob Thompson exhibit. Thompson was a prominent artist in the 50s and 60s. They were presented with introduction cards to give context for each piece, and although it was grouped by artist, the works were still thematically organized; Thompson&#8217;s works mostly captured themes about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}