Museum Exhibition
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Now that you've oriented and tuned yourself a bit, I'd like you to think about how the art shapes your experience of the space, how space shapes your experience of the art and how the whole embodies certain kinds of meetings. You may have noticed that the galley houses are not simply from Asia, but from diverse parts of Asia, including those from China, India, Japan and Korea. As you explore the different sections, you will discover specific aesthetic, historical and religious aspects of the art of these different cultures. Spend any time with sculptures of India, and you will quickly discover the relation between these works and Hindu religious beliefs. More to the point that space itself is laid out to help. You see both a unity of Asia as a broad term and the enormous and vital diversity within Asia suggested, for instance, by the Korean Art Gallery. There are a number of more general elements to notice about how the space communicates to us. For many people, this is a calming space, and you might ask yourself what it is that gives that impression the warm wood and subdued light, the regularly spaced columns that mark and even and ordered progression to the space. The lovely garden was flowing waters, green trees and plants and rocks that you see in the background. This view onto the garden suggest another idea. After all, a museum is typically a space with walls on which to place art. But this museum has a large wall of glass opening onto a view outside. And not just any view. This view is a garden cultivate to look a little bit wild, but also lovely and infighting. You'll find such garden views throughout the museum suggesting a connection between the aesthetics of the cultivated natural world and the aesthetics of arts found in the museum. In short, this space proposes a continuity between the world of beauty and meaning, as formed by human hands and as found in nature, looking more specifically at the many objects in the room, in cases and even on the floor, we notice that they are explicitly presented to be seen. They are lit brightly and clearly lit so that you can visually explore details and often arranged so that you can walk around them to view them in their entirety. These are objects meant to be seen and lingered over in close viewing, on the other hand, were clearly signalled not to touch these objects, for instance, by the transparent acrylic vitrines. The enormous ceramic pieces on the floor by Nakagawa Yuki are protected by Stan tions that prevent Children, among others, from climbing on them. Finally, we can say that one of the central values expressed by this space is that thes human made objects from across time and space are enormously valuable and worth sharing, worth, preserving and worth making visible for generations to come. Space itself embodies this, telling us how we feel about our own and other cultures and suggesting their importance as repositories of human knowledge, experience and sensory pleasure. Now please explore the museum to find an exhibit or wing that is particularly appealing to you.