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Art Museums Around the World

November 9th, 2009

Museums collect and care for objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in small cities.

At Saatchi Gallery you can see the List of Main Art Museums around the World few of those are given as below.

The Museum Of Modern Art – New York

The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The rich and varied collection constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views of modern art. The Museum Archives contains primary source material related to the history of Museum of Modern Art and contemporary art.

National Gallery – London

The National Gallery houses some of the most famous and familiar paintings in the world, in a building that is an internationally recognised landmark.

The Metropolitan Museum – New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from pre-history to the present and from every part of the globe.

Tate Modern – London

Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art and of international modern art from the year 1500 to the present day

National Gallery of Art, Washington – Washington DC

The National Gallery of Art, one of the world’s preeminent museums, was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937.

Guggenheim Museum – New York

The Foundation realizes this mission through exceptional exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications, and strives to engage and educate an increasingly diverse international audience through its unique network of museums and cultural partnerships.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles

Established in 1910 as part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Art and Science,

Experience European masterpieces, cutting-edge contemporary art, an extensive collection of American art from the United States and Latin America.




By: Amit

Art Travel Destinations in Vogue

October 1st, 2009

Make your summer chilling with memorable trips to art galleries situated in the most interesting travel destinations you have dreamed of visiting. If you are an art lover there are many places worth visiting, just waiting for you to come. Most of these interesting travel destinations are full of activities and other places worth visiting, in addition to the most incredible art galleries and museums.

Apart from international travel destinations, you can arrange an all-comprehensive package tour within your homeland. An interesting tour comprising the art gallery and the museum of great wonders are available in most of the places we usually stay. Perfect travel destinations for an art lover, for example, can be highly rewarding for the person living in the U.S.A. All of them are endowed with plentiful works of art from different natures and civilizations. Not only people from all parts of the continent, but also millions of others come to visit these art galleries and museums every year. In fact, places with the art gallery have become eminent travel destinations for many art lovers who are in practice of exploring art of diverse dimensions all around the globe.

Starting from U.S.A, Europe, and Asia to many other places in the world possess a healthy collection of art galleries. The art gallery for example, in America comprises a major subject of attraction as far as the travel destinations of various kinds are concerned. Even, small towns in America are rich in art collections of assorted natures. “The art gallery” term finds a full complement at such places where art is being highly acclaimed by people who come far across the world only to visit these unique pieces of art collections. To name a few; National Gallery of Art, Henry Art Gallery, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City are top attractions.

The art gallery in each of the places is accompanied with other places of interest, making them favorite travel destinations. Another interesting fact worth revealing is the art galleries situated at these places of America not only contain art works of the continent, but arts of a range of regions are exhibited here at the art emporiums. For example, when you are at the art gallery of Florida, you can get a hint of both modern and traditional art forms.

Ranging between modern and ancient arts, they are great combinations sufficient for bestowing nostalgia for any art lover. Again, if you are accompanied with a person not interested in the art gallery, do not worry. These travel destinations can equally be perfect for anyone, because of a host of happening places to visit. Including shopping malls or lustrous beauty of nature trails along with gardens and national parks are all there to entertain tourists of different flavor coming from remote parts of the world. Therefore, satisfy your quest for art by visiting these irresistible art galleries situated in most of the travel destinations of the earth you always cherish to visit.




By: Groshan Fabiola

Selected Fang Lijun Artwork at Saatchi-gallery

September 7th, 2009

Fang Lijun is known to be one of the main forerunners of the early 1990’s movement known as Cynical Realism. This artistic trendevolved as a result of the aftermath of the 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen and the closing of the “China Avant-Garde” exhibition at the China national Gallery in Beijing.Fang Lijun born in 1963 in Handan, Hebei province is one of the leading and most influential contemporary artists in china.

The exhibition of their works at the China National Gallery was the culmination of that decade and signalled to the artists that they had been recognised. The dramatic closure of the exhibition soon after it’s opening marked the destruction of those goals. The 1990s were characterised by a loss of idealism, a more ironical, a more personal viewpoint and a greater detachment from any regeneration of culture and society – a cold, realistic view of changing Chinese society

Fang Lijun’s work has been exhibited at:

1) The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2) Pompidou Museum, Paris

3_ Museum of Modern Art, New York

4) National Gallery of Art, Beijing

5) Venice Biennials, Kwangju Biennials, Sao Paulo Biennale

6) every significant exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art since 1990

Fang Lijun painting owned by the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Series 2 – Number 2, 1992. The main figure, a friend of the artist, could be yawning or yelling while the mute, menacing figures in the background bring to mind mindless, manipulated masses. Fang Lijun’s famous figure, have already become well known icons in the world of Chinese contemporary art. Fang Lijun’s bald man with his ambiguous expression and dreamlike background of unlimited space and freedom became a symbol of the subtle mockery that one can detect in the works of the Cynical Realism artists.

CONCLUSION:

Fang Lijun’s practice exhibits a rarefied technical skill rigorously studied through his Social Realist training; his combination of this aesthetic with references to contemporary comics, folk art, and dynastic painting characterise a national identity in flux, distilling a position of integrity from tradition and the modern world.

Find More about Fang Lijun Paintings and Exhibitions at Saatchi-Gallery

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/fang_lijun.htm




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