A brief history of art, from the Renaissance to the 20th century
How can you tell Leonardo da Vinci from Michelangelo?
A Monet from a Manet? A Picasso from a Braque?
And this sculpture, should it be attributed to Bernini or Rodin?
To answer these questions and many others, Orange and the Rmn-Grand Palais have once again joined forces to propose a MOOC in 5 sequences.
The MOOC A brief history of art gives the keys to understanding works from the 16th to the 20th century, and solid tutorials to learn how to read a painting, a sculpture or even a monument. All this in a playful and practical form.
It will allow everyone to refresh their knowledge and rediscover the masterpieces of our artistic heritage. It can also be a solid base for all pupils and students preparing their art history exams.
Interesting project to see how to popularize art history to the public. The trailer is very successful with these photo montages!
Frame
Established in 1997, Frame is the world’s leading media brand for interior-design professionals. With 20 years of experience in the industry, Frame has today become a media brand that stimulates interior designers and architects to create spatial excellence.
letsmuseeum.com
Just imagine you could zap through a museum, a city or a park – for real. Your guide is not an expert but a fan. You’ll hear stories that will entertain, touch and inspire you. What you experience with us is all about fun.
May we introduce: Disco, Dada, Darwin. The most unusual tours in all of Switzerland. New, one-of-a-kind and unforgettable!
#letsmuseeum is an initiative that is independent of the museums. The museums can’t help you if you have any questions.
Amuze.ch
Courage, delusion, obsession. In the museum you encounter conditions you have never sought. Because you did not know they existed. Everything starts with an idea. Give new thoughts the chance to inspire you.
Between stone and glass your journey of discovery begins. Every museum is a storage for objects and installations. And thus a collection of moments. Thousands are waiting for you in these houses.
Time Machine. The Städel Museum in the 19th century
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Youtube Channel
What did the museum look like in the 19th century? The Time Machine Web Special and the associated virtual reality app offer fascinating insights into the museum’s historical art presentation modes – online and on site at the Städel. With a pair of virtual reality glasses, you can travel back to the year 1878 and discover the Städel and its former collection rooms.
The Time Machine on site
Travel to the past – with the aid of VR technology
The Städel Museum invites you to come along on a journey to the past. In our collection rooms, you’ll be welcomed by specially trained staff, who will give you background information on the “Time Machine” and acquaint you with how to use the VR glasses you’ll have at your disposal. Following brief instructions, you can take off for the fascinating world of virtual reality and experience the past.
Research project
Thanks to 3D technology, a research team of the Städel Museum, over a period of several years, was able to create a highly detailed reconstruction of the historical presentation of its collection. With the Time Machine, you can explore the Städel Museum’s historical locations of the years 1816, 1833 and 1878, the respective collection presentations and the works on exhibit at the time –online. You can also embark on your journey back in time by downloading the research results from the Oculus Store with an app developed especially for the virtual reality glasses “Samsung Gear VR”.
Narrative spaces? The scenography toolbox
The staging of space, collections, images, text, light, photography, film, new media and interaction puts an exhibition in a unique position to inform and seduce visitors, to amaze, involve and enrich them. In a well-designed exhibition, the media used do not form individual, scattered elements, but merge to form a balanced and effective whole. The task is always to immerse the visitor in a world of experience that is as rich in content as it is effective, and to generate new ideas. We see exhibitions as stimulating narrative spaces that invite visitors to actively participate.
Over the years, our office Kossmann.dejong has developed an exhibition vocabulary designed to facilitate understanding between us and the people we work with. The following nine criteria or concepts are not intended as a recipe for designing an exhibition. Rather, they establish a framework that should raise awareness of what an exhibition or narrative environment can or should be, and allow us to discuss the very nature of exhibition practice.
Reference from the 2018 Summer School at the HKB.
Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon.
The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and in that, considering the comparative lack of empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are remarkably accurate. However, his scenario turned out to be impractical for safe manned space travel since a much longer barrel would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers.
The character of Michel Ardan, the French member of the party in the novel, was inspired by the real-life photographer Félix Nadar.
Modern times
Modern Times is a 1936 American silent comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and financial conditions many people faced during the Great Depression — conditions created, in Chaplin’s view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well-known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.
