Dallas Museum of Art
In my opinion, the overall structure of the Dallas Museum of Art offers numerous places for guests to admire different forms of art within contiguous spaces. I find these vantage points to be the museum’s most unexpected properties and my recommended route passes three of them. I had the luxury of spending my afternoon at the Dallas Museum of Art over the weekend, and I spent quite a while moving slowly around the William Wetmore Story marble sculpture of Semiramis. She is a stunning work, engraved out of a single block of marble, and as I moved around her, I thought to myself, “Great art is a wonderful reason to believe in God.”
I mean how do you coax such a masterpiece out of a chunk of rock? The folds in the fabric …show more content…
This work of art by American craftsman and woodworker Crawford Riddell from the Gothic revival period is one of the greatest expressions of the Gothic revival style in American furniture in my opinion. It stands not only as a work of rich craftsmanship but as a strong symbol of the political and social objectives of the era. The bedstead is the most striking and highly carved piece in the suite, and it is truly fit for a president! The bed is more than 13 feet tall, with elaborate peaks, a huge high-backed headboard and a tester whose interior is carved into pyramids. It's the kind of bed you would see in English country homes, saved for a visit from the king and queen. As I continue browsing different pieces of art through the many levels of the DMA I come upon a particularly captivating work known as Still Life with Landscape by Abraham Hendricksz Van Beyeren. The Painting consists of lavish banquet tables laden with silver and gold vessels, fancy glassware, fine fruits, and expensive table coverings of damask, satin, and velvet .Works of this kind demonstrate the arrangement of light on a variety of different surfaces and organize luxurious objects into magnificent
In my opinion, the overall structure of the Dallas Museum of Art offers numerous places for guests to admire different forms of art within contiguous spaces. I find these vantage points to be the museum’s most unexpected properties and my recommended route passes three of them. I had the luxury of spending my afternoon at the Dallas Museum of Art over the weekend, and I spent quite a while moving slowly around the William Wetmore Story marble sculpture of Semiramis. She is a stunning work, engraved out of a single block of marble, and as I moved around her, I thought to myself, “Great art is a wonderful reason to believe in God.”
I mean how do you coax such a masterpiece out of a chunk of rock? The folds in the fabric …show more content…
This work of art by American craftsman and woodworker Crawford Riddell from the Gothic revival period is one of the greatest expressions of the Gothic revival style in American furniture in my opinion. It stands not only as a work of rich craftsmanship but as a strong symbol of the political and social objectives of the era. The bedstead is the most striking and highly carved piece in the suite, and it is truly fit for a president! The bed is more than 13 feet tall, with elaborate peaks, a huge high-backed headboard and a tester whose interior is carved into pyramids. It's the kind of bed you would see in English country homes, saved for a visit from the king and queen. As I continue browsing different pieces of art through the many levels of the DMA I come upon a particularly captivating work known as Still Life with Landscape by Abraham Hendricksz Van Beyeren. The Painting consists of lavish banquet tables laden with silver and gold vessels, fancy glassware, fine fruits, and expensive table coverings of damask, satin, and velvet .Works of this kind demonstrate the arrangement of light on a variety of different surfaces and organize luxurious objects into magnificent