Assignment 3: Cultural Event Report

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Assignment 3
Tony Eary
Dr. William Denning
Hum-112
December 14, 2013

Cultural Event Report

I took my wife and children and attended the University of Kentucky Art Museum on December 14, 2013. When we entered the building we were approached by a man that was dressed in a suit and tie also wearing a white glove and a woman wearing a white shirt with tie and dress pants and she had a white glove on also. They asked what my interest was, but all I could answer with at the time was “Art’. There was so much to see from self-portraits, sound sculptures, photos, weaving, tapestry, tiffany lamps, and abstracts and baroque artistry. There were new words that I didn’t even recall ever encountering in the book, for example, bucolic, sound sculptures, soumac, and photorealism. The term bucolic which means “of or characteristics of the countryside or its people; rustic.” A sound sculptures is a sculpture that produces a tome or percussive action. This form is known as contemporary or avante garde in art and music. The term Soumac is a weaving technique that produces flat patterned surface which is used in making oriental rugs. The term photorealism is a portrait that was painted and a great deal of detail that it resembles the photo.
After walking through the museum I decided to ask if the building were to catch fire which two items would they most likely try to save. The lady only took a second to tell me that “In the Pasture would be one, and George Washington portrait.” I could see why “In the pasture” was one they would save because of how beautiful it was. The women pointed out those colors back then weren’t available and that the blue in the photo was from a blue stone (lapis lazuli) that was ground up to make blue paint. The painting shows the struggles women faced during the French Revolution by having to take care of the home life while the men were off at

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