Chapter5 making art using art and preserving art inet
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This document discusses the history and purpose of art collections and museums. It notes that historically, art collections were owned by nobility and heads of state, but many private collections have been donated or sold to become public. National museums like the British Museum and Louvre contain large collections from various cultures and times, acquired through both donations and the colonial conquest of other countries. Art museums focus specifically on exhibiting art to showcase formal qualities, while regional museums highlight local cultural areas. The document also addresses challenges like weathering, war, and ignorance that endanger art, as well as restoration efforts and controversies.
Chapter5 making art using art and preserving art inet
- 1. What do we do with art? • How do you use art? • Why do we keep art?
- 2. Museums & Private Collections • Art collections • Museum: ancient Greek mouseion (university), 15th century Europe referring to collections of interesting objects
- 3. Who owns collections and why? • Nobility, Heads of State, Countries • Private Art Collectors • Private become public… – Donated or sold: • personal gain • Fame • preservation for posterity
- 4. How are collections built? • European History: – Enlightenment – Romantic period • Capitalism: ownership, control, possession • Colonialism: colonized countries’ art & artifacts filled European museums through conquest and colonization
- 5. National Museum • London’s British Museum, France’s Louvre in Paris, Vatican Museum, Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C. • Donated or purchased private collections • Large institution with several types of collections: – Cultural items, artifacts, different countries – Fine and ancient art
- 6. Art Museums • Exhibits art to maximize formal and aesthetic qualities • Private institutions, public museums supported by tax money, university run museums • Modern art museums: – Most current art – Unusual, challenging to public audience
- 7. Regional Museums • Interest of local and regional cultural area • Variety in collections, missions and programs Latino Cultural Center, Dallas
- 8. Preserving art • Weather • Time • People – War – Pollution – Vandals – Tourists – Ignorance Altamira Caves
- 9. Restoration Michelangelo. Pieta. 1499. Marble. St. Peter's, Vatican.
- 10. Mona at the Louvre
- 11. Controversy of Restoration Michelangelo, Detail of Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512,Vatican, Rome, Italy
- 12. Saving Art • Art is endangered by… – Climate – War – People • World War II, Nazi and their preoccupation with art in Europe during the Holocaust • Rape of Europa, documentary film • “The Monument Men”, soldiers who saved European art during war
- 13. When art is not saved… • Afghanistan • Iconoclast • Art destroyed as strategy of war
- 14. Conquest • Aztecs and Spaniards
- 18. Recall • What are the major differences between these three museums? • National museums • Art museums • Regional museums