Cantor Museum Visit

The museum I chose to go to was the Cantor Museum located at Stanford. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. As well as having modern and contemporary art, there was plenty of classical renaissance and older art available to see.(As you can see from the above pictures.) Probably my favorite thing I saw was "The Thinker" by Rodin(Last picture) This has long been one of my favorite pieces of art to look at and consider what it means, and seeing the full size recreation was very cool. I also enjoyed the full landscape paintings by William Keith in the 19th Century American and European art section of the museum.(First Picture) The sheer size of the painting and the vast scale that the paintings were painted on really allowed me to be drawn in and appreciate the buty of the nature that was being portrayed.

Overall, I'm very glad I went toe the Cantor. Hopefully this summer I'll be able to visit the Legion of Honor, and The De Young Museums :)

Blog #8

Above is the engraving titled "Hannibal Crossing the alps." Now, the term sublime was one used alot in our last reading assignment. But this picture so strikingly represents that "genre" of painting, I had to post it. It's probably one of my favorite pieces of art that we've seen so far in the book. The focus is not at all on the men, but rather on the looming, almost evil looking backround. It is so vast and huge, one can tell the scale even from a small representation of the original engraving. Work like this is really what makes me enjoy art, and I continue to look for more representations of the Sublime genre.