Hello, and welcome to the St. Edward’s University Art Gallery. Today is an exhibition that reflects artwork that demonstrates the progressiveness of artist after moving past the more traditional and classical artwork. This audio guide will have you following along the paintings on the wall, and lastly the sculptures and models in the middle of the gallery. Watch your step and enjoy!
Entering the gallery from the left door, looking to your right on the wall you will find Edvard Munch’s” Night in St. Cloud”, which is an autobiographical work from when Munch lived in France. This painting is the view from the floor he lived on that filled the room with a somber blue. It is a recording of his life as he moved outside of Paris to St. Cloud and …show more content…
This work is a representation of his own life where his family (brothers and father etc.) are represented by the bright yellow stars in his strokes of blue in the sky -which also are an example of how he records what he feels rather than just what he saw- from the background, and the most noticeable building in the middle ground is a church and represents his previous want to become a preacher because it was his father’s work, and the brown and green spiral in the foreground is a cypress which is a symbol of death and eternal which rises to the heavens from the earthly plane of existence. Van Gogh’s work is easily recognizable by his way of painting in strokes much like impressionists, but create a more stable and grounded, yet flowing and almost moving …show more content…
The sleek design of the building represents the style that Mies wanted to present the progressiveness and efficiency of postwar capitalism using the Modernist style (Stokstad & Cothren 587). He also had a large budget when creating this building and he ordered custom made bronze for the exterior-though building codes requires they were covered in concrete- and was able to give the entire building the dignified image that you see before you. Though the model pale in comparison to the power that the building itself radiates in New
Entering the gallery from the left door, looking to your right on the wall you will find Edvard Munch’s” Night in St. Cloud”, which is an autobiographical work from when Munch lived in France. This painting is the view from the floor he lived on that filled the room with a somber blue. It is a recording of his life as he moved outside of Paris to St. Cloud and …show more content…
This work is a representation of his own life where his family (brothers and father etc.) are represented by the bright yellow stars in his strokes of blue in the sky -which also are an example of how he records what he feels rather than just what he saw- from the background, and the most noticeable building in the middle ground is a church and represents his previous want to become a preacher because it was his father’s work, and the brown and green spiral in the foreground is a cypress which is a symbol of death and eternal which rises to the heavens from the earthly plane of existence. Van Gogh’s work is easily recognizable by his way of painting in strokes much like impressionists, but create a more stable and grounded, yet flowing and almost moving …show more content…
The sleek design of the building represents the style that Mies wanted to present the progressiveness and efficiency of postwar capitalism using the Modernist style (Stokstad & Cothren 587). He also had a large budget when creating this building and he ordered custom made bronze for the exterior-though building codes requires they were covered in concrete- and was able to give the entire building the dignified image that you see before you. Though the model pale in comparison to the power that the building itself radiates in New