I recently attended the exhibition of Picasso Sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and purchased a same-day timed ticket when I arrived around 12 noon, as I felt that this was the best time of day to go there. I was extremely excited about the visit, I...

The beloved American artist Jackson Pollack’s seminal piece known as “Mural” was commissioned by famed New York art dealer Peggy Guggenheim, and known as a twentieth century art icon (Jackson Pollack’s Mural; n.d). This piece has long been recognized for having been created during a transitional period for the artist,...

Robert Mapplethorpe is famous across the globe as one of the most outstanding artists of the end of the twentieth century. Since 1963, Robert started production of his own photos with Polaroid camera. This person remarkably used this camera for its own sake and profit. There are several famous art...

Dorothy Eugenie Brett’s oil on board painting titled Jemez Corn Dance was created in 1967. She creates a depiction of the ceremonial corn dance— a prayer for rain and growth needed to ensure a successful harvest—through the use of oil paints in a two-dimensional format. The piece embodies the rhythmic...

For the purposes of this assignment, I attended the John B. Davis Gallery in spring of 2016. The title of the exhibition that I went to see was the “Undergraduate Art Exhibition and Scholarship Competition.” One of the artists displaying work in this exhibit was Cody Ingram and it was...