San Antonio Museum Research Paper

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Museum Paper ‘San Antonio Museum of Art ‘

There are many kind of museum in San Antonio in Texas. Above of all, San Antonio Museum of Arts is one of big and famous museum in the city. The Museum of Art was opened to the public in March of 1981. It conducts more than 500 guided tours annually and provides approximately 200 educational programs each year. The museum exhibits Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial and Latin American folk art. Also it includes eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century American and European paintings, photography, sculpture and decorative arts. Especially, The San Antonio Museum of Art has one of the most comprehensive collections of Latin American art in U.S., formed by former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller and Robert K. Winn in 1998. It offers an overview of over 3,000 years of artistic expression from Mexico, Central and South America, and many countries of the
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It is about 25 inch by 19 in sizes of canvas and based on imagery from 16th Century European Catholicism. It shows a man sitting on a chair under the tree, and there are also two of Catholic believers, a Satan, a skeleton and an angel around the man. The man looks like having deep worries and hesitating something in emotion. The Satan and skeleton are tempting him to go evil side, but the angel and two believers protect and pray for him. I think the painter try to give a message that is eternal battle between good and evil. All of people have a choice to decide their futures. For all Christians, people have sinned and need to wake up to go the way of Christ. Otherwise, people continue to sin and go the way of Satan. The choice is ours. As the picture shows, it could be interpreted on various ways. A scythe which the skeleton is holding seems like portraying his death or a way of no return after choosing

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