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What types of art museum are there? Why do we keep art?TRANSCRIPT
What do we do with art?
• How do you use art?• Why do we keep art?
Museums & Private Collections
• Art collections• Museum: ancient Greek mouseion
(university), 15th century Europe referring to collections of interesting objects
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
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
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
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
Regional Museums
• Interest of local and regional cultural area• Variety in collections, missions and programs
Latino Cultural Center, Dallas
Preserving art
• Weather• Time• People
– War– Pollution– Vandals– Tourists– Ignorance
Altamira Caves
Restoration
Michelangelo. Pieta. 1499. Marble. St. Peter's, Vatican.
Mona at the Louvre
Controversy of Restoration
Michelangelo, Detail of Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512,Vatican, Rome, Italy
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
When art is not saved…
• Afghanistan• Iconoclast• Art destroyed as strategy of war
Conquest
• Aztecs and Spaniards
Recall
• What are the major differences between these three museums?
• National museums• Art museums• Regional museums