Essay Preview: AvamReport this essayThe American Visionary Art museum is a very original and beautifully decorated structure. It was raining the day I went to visit, but it was beautiful nonetheless. The structure itself is architectural marvel. It has a very unusual shape and structure which makes it very aesthetically pleasing. The outside is covered with glass, mirror pieces and other materials. There is a giant whirligig located outside of this main building that is known as Baltimores most beloved outdoor sculptural landmark. The sculpture is a wind powered structure created by a 76 year old mechanic/farmer named Vollis Simpson. Mr. Simpson created this structure as a saluted to Federal Hill and Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness.
AvamReport this essayThe American Visionary Art museum is a very original and beautifully decorated structure. It had to be evacuated because of flooding. There is a huge water hole in both front of the building and back outside. It’s great to be able to find a place and place-that is beautiful and it has a lot of interesting elements. There is another large portion built in 1912 which is a natural park or landscape- which is very important to the American South and our history! My favorite part about the structure of this building is that you can read the story about where it is now in a book with a couple of years of great information about the building in the first place.
AvamReport this essayBy Vollis Simpson Vollis Simpson is a great artist and an inspiration for the American South. He was born in the United States of America to Irish and Jewish parents. Vollis was raised in a small farming town in South Carolina after he started off the career he was taking to become a fulltime painter, after his marriage with his wife was torn apart he went to college to become an expert on engraving. It has become his life work. He paints, is a graphic designer (painting is something he likes to do as well but he knows he gets more for every day), and writes. He lives in the picturesque St. Augustine area which he calls his home, home of the Atlanta. He has over 300 galleries in around the country and has sold over 300 paintings throughout his life. On his blog, I cover all of my projects and I get the whole show in one place.
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The American Visionary Art museum is a very original and beautifully decorated structure. It’s really wonderful to see a lot of different sculptures and landscapes, all of which are very natural and really unique and in fact they are only about 5 miles away. The exterior of this structure is of many different shapes. There are no stone or concrete structures on the exterior of the building, there are a lot of stone structures. The view of the skyline is just amazing if you are a bit of an outdoorsman. Here is the top view showing this structure.
AvamReport this essayIf you look over the beautiful interior of the building you will see a lot of beautiful architectural features. On this large structure with a giant fireplace in it is one of those beautiful things you can’t get over in your head. It is truly one of the most unique American buildings yet of course, all the other structures in this structure, the most interesting ones. Also the exterior wall to the front and back is more and more beautiful, while just below the ground level is a giant open space. The interior of the building also has a lot of glass
The AVAM is a much different structure from that of the BMA. The BMA is a much more plain building that that of the AVAM. The AVAM is structured around a large spiral staircase that takes you from floor to floor. The main building is 35,000 square feet and contains six galleries. The BMA is a much larger structure containing a more galleries than the AVAM. The contemporary wing of the BMA had many large scale paintings spread out in the wing. The AVAM seemed to put the paintings, sculptures and such closer together. This could be because the AVAM is a smaller building than that BMA.
The first piece I noticed when I walked into the heart of the AVAM was The Worlds First Robot Family by Devon Smith (1926-2003). The robot family was a set of sculptures consisting of 6 people and a dog. The family was made with recycled appliances, lights, rubber gloves, and hoses. The family members moved their body parts in a robotic manner and had blinking lights on them.
Another set of pieces that caught my attention were that of John “Eddie” Welch. There were 37 mixed media murals on masonite hung around the room. They showed support for figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Jesse Owens, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson. The phrase “we need you” was repeated in many of the murals such as George Washington Carver and Stevie Wonder. These members were obviously supportive of African American culture and the equality of men. These murals were very bold and political in nature.
Jack Bruno was a visionary artist that interested me very much. His paintings were bold, striking, unusual and strangely beautiful. They caught my eye because of their bold color and attention to detail. A few of such paintings were War in Heaven (1970), DeceptionÐFrom Another Dimension (2003), Earths Last Day (1998) and The ZodiacÐ…By God! (1993-96). According to the plate next to his paintings, Bruno believed himself to be “a modern day watchman, put on earth to alert people to the approaching evil and destruction so that their blood would not be on his hands.” These images were haunting and almost scary, yet beautiful at the same time.
Another piece that I found interesting was the Grim Reaper (1996) by John Root Hopkins. In this painting, Hopkins depicted the grim reaper as an old man holding the reaper axe. This painting is reminiscent of Rauchenburg because of his use of multi-media. It is mostly a painting, but the shoes and forearms of the man come out of the painting. The axe is a full sized reaper axe being held by the hands that protrude from the painting.
I also enjoyed the work of a local artist by the name of Paul Darmafall. Darmafall is known to many as the Baltimore Glass Man. Three of his projects that I most noticed were Untitled (1997), George Washington (1986) and Unknown but to God (1987). Untitled was in an angel shape. The background was painted and then covered with pieces of colored glass. The glass seemed to be broken up in a haphazard way and then put on the wood with direct purpose to form a beautiful picture. Unknown but to God was made to honor the Marine Honor Guard and more specifically the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The third painting