How does the museum building relate to its surroundings? Is it similar, different, larger, smaller than the urban fabric around it?
- This museum was in a high-rise building and location was Roppongi in Tokyo. There were many high building so it was similar to surroundings.
What is the exterior interior like? Is it decorated? Can you tell what style of architecture it is? How does it relate to what you see inside?
- There were two other exhibitions in this building, so at exterior, there were advertisements of the exhibitions.
What is the entrance lobby to the museum like? How does it shape the beginning of your museum visit?
- The place to buy the tickets was simple; mainly black and had high-grade sense.
The entrance of enter to the exhibition, it was white and looked like door. I felt "I'm going to time slip to old France."
Who is attending the museum? What is the general atmosphere like?
- To this Marie Antoinette exhibition, most visitors were women and middle aged. Some were alone and some were with one or two friends. It was quiet and had tense atmosphere.
How are the galleries organized? Why do you think the galleries and exhibitions look the way they do? (Think about wall color, lighting, interior arrangement etc).
- It was organized by life time of Marie Antoinette.
How is your object displayed? What other objects is they near to, and why?
- Paintings were on the wall and space were enough to see. Board of title or explanation of the paintings were close to the paintings to help visitors understand.
Draw diagrams or pictures to help you remember the layout of the museum and exhibition rooms.
- Black line...wall
Red line...exhibits (paintings, sculptures, etc)
Blue line...board of explanation
Pink line...the way to walk
This is not all floor. I could draw only 4 sections.
- This museum was in a high-rise building and location was Roppongi in Tokyo. There were many high building so it was similar to surroundings.
What is the exterior interior like? Is it decorated? Can you tell what style of architecture it is? How does it relate to what you see inside?
- There were two other exhibitions in this building, so at exterior, there were advertisements of the exhibitions.
What is the entrance lobby to the museum like? How does it shape the beginning of your museum visit?
- The place to buy the tickets was simple; mainly black and had high-grade sense.
The entrance of enter to the exhibition, it was white and looked like door. I felt "I'm going to time slip to old France."
Who is attending the museum? What is the general atmosphere like?
- To this Marie Antoinette exhibition, most visitors were women and middle aged. Some were alone and some were with one or two friends. It was quiet and had tense atmosphere.
How are the galleries organized? Why do you think the galleries and exhibitions look the way they do? (Think about wall color, lighting, interior arrangement etc).
- It was organized by life time of Marie Antoinette.
How is your object displayed? What other objects is they near to, and why?
- Paintings were on the wall and space were enough to see. Board of title or explanation of the paintings were close to the paintings to help visitors understand.
Draw diagrams or pictures to help you remember the layout of the museum and exhibition rooms.
- Black line...wall
Red line...exhibits (paintings, sculptures, etc)
Blue line...board of explanation
Pink line...the way to walk
This is not all floor. I could draw only 4 sections.
WHAT IS BEING SHOWN
Form
Note textures and the quality of the surface of the work. What adjectives could you use throughout your analysis? Eg. shiny, dull, had, soft, rough, smooth.
- Shiny. Noble.
How does the artist use line, color, light and shadow? (See the first few pages of your Stokstad survey textbook for explanations of these terms under “Formal Analysis”)
- The portrait was very realistic. The color, balance,
What about the compositions? Is it balanced, symmetrical, asymmetrical? Why?
- They were balanced because they were portraits.
How big is the work? How does size affect your reaction to the work? How does size affect the depiction of the subject?
- Some were very big and some were small.
Big: Paintings (Marie Antoinette and her family), cloth to hang on the wall
Small: Drawing to discribe events that happened this period, some portraits of Marie Antoinette, her family, jewelry, dishes they used
Of course the big paintings had strong impact for me and there were famous. I have seen some of them in textbook when I was a high school student.
Context
Read the label – what can we tell from the label? Look for the artist’s name, the media/materials used in creating the work, and when and where the piece was made.
- Most of them were made in France in 1700s.
Where was the work originally meant to have been seen, and how might the current context in the museum be similar or different? What might it have been like to view the work in its original context?
- Most of the exhibits were not to be seen by many people because there were stuffs that Marie Antoinette used or wore. Paintings were also just to hang on the wall for Marie Antoinette or her family.
After she died, Marie Antoinette became famous and someone tried to keep and remember her history.
Where is the viewer meant to stand in relation to the work? Is there one viewpoint or multiple viewing points?
- There were multiple viewing points. There were line in front of the paintings and all we had to do was do not enter more than that line, so we could see closer or far away.
Identify the subject matter. Be certain to describe all of the components depicted. Is this artwork telling a story? Is it religious or mythological?
- It told a story. We could see Marie Antoinette's history from her portraits of furnitures she used or clothes she wore.
Why
Why this piece and why this place?
- To better known about Marie Antoinette. In Roppongi, there are many people, so not only Japanese but also foreign people would visit to see.
VISITORS
Who is there?
- There were middle aged (perhaps) women. Some were alone and some were with one or two people.
What are they doing with their bodies?
- There were looking closer the paintings.
Body Movements
- Some times they were pointed the paintings or exhibits.
Face expressions
- They were smiling or looked impressed at the exhibits.
Language – Behavior
- It was very quiet place but some times they spoke in small voice.
Transcribe and translate a three minute conversation that you hear people having in or out of the museum.
- People was speaking in a small voice, so it was hard to hear other people's conversation. I could hear people talking about the topic that related to exhibits. For example, when they looked at portrait of Marie Antoinette of her relevant, they said the painting was beautiful or the painting was realistic. Some people said about history of people of the painting.
I focused on one pair of women.
When we went to the exhibit of cloth (this cloth was very gorgeous because it has red and gold) to hang on the wall, one woman said to her friend,
A: This cloth would be nice if you hang this to your house. One gaudy thing will suit for normal house to show modulation.
B: Is it? I think this is too gaudy.
A: No, no. I think this will match to your house.
B: Really? Then maybe I will buy kind of this...lol
When we went to illustrate of small palace that Marie Antoinette's husband present small palace to her.
A: Wow, this is nice.
B: Yeah. Ohhhh, I want to live here.
A: Yeah, I want to live here, too.
(They were envied the life style of Marie Antoinette)
Their conversation was interesting.