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Smithsonian American Art Museum - Renwick Gallery - Student Orientation Video
Poziom:
Temat: Sztuka i rozrywka
[music]
[pause]
>>SONNY:
Hi, i'm Sonny.
>>ELLY: and i'm Elly.
>>SONNY: We are about to take you
inside the
victorian jewel of the Smithsonian
Institution.
It looks like it could be in downtown
Paris.
It's actually a neighbor of the White
House.
>>ELLY:
This jewel, the Renwick Gallery is a
branch of the Smithsonian American Art
Museum
that features American decorative arts
and
crafts.
[music]
>>ELLY: We'll show you highlights of
the permanent
collection.
>>SONNY: But before we go inside,
remember
to leave your belongings on the bus.
[music]
[pause]
>>ELLY: There's a ton of history here.
The
Renwick gallery was completed in 1861
as the
city's first art museum. And during
the
Civil War, the union soldiers stored
their uniforms here.
SONNY: And can't you believe they
almost tore
this beautiful building down!
>>ELLY: Luckily in the 1960s, first
lady Jacqueline
Kennedy started the fight to save this
building,
and soon it was dedicated to the
collection,
study, and exhibition of American
crafts and
decorative arts.
>>SONNY: without the efforts of mrs.
kennedy
and others the grand salon might not
be here
to showcase all of these 19th century
paintings.
>>ELLY: This painting of the
Yellowstone Canyon
by Thomas Moran was key to creating
Yellowstone
as our first national park in 1872.
>>DOCENT: ...and when these pictures
came
back to Washington and the
administration
saw the grander of what was in the
middle
of our country they decided that those
lands
needed to be preserved. It's a pretty
phenomenal
occurrence when art influences the
preservation
of land.
>>ELLY: There are stories behind each
of the
artworks here at the Renwick Gallery.
>>SONNY: And sometimes, things are not
what
they seem.
[pause]
>>ELLY: Ghost Clock by Wendell Castle,
looks
like a grandfather clock, partially
covered
with a sheet.
>>SONNY: So, can you tell us what it
actually
is?
>>ELLY: you can find out when you
actually visit.
>>SONNY: Craft artists work in metal,
clay,
fiber, wood, and glass, and much, much
more.
>>ELLY: Glass artist Beth Lipman
worked with
15 other glass artists to create this
feast
called BANCKETJE.
>>SONNY: Each artist had just two
attempts
to make a glass vessel. One of what
ever they
made was put in the final piece.
[pause]
>>ELLY: Do you notice the glass
lobster that
seems to have fallen off the table.
>>SONNY: Actually, the 'lobster' fell
off
the table the very first time the
piece was being installed
Beth Lipman, right away
said
LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS.
>>ELLY: All of the artworks here at
the Renwick
are one a kind, unique, and never to
be made
again.
>>SONNY: And all the artwork belongs
to every American.
>>ELLY: So use your eyes and your
minds, and
not your hands, to check all of
the artwork here.
[pause]
>>VISITOR: It kinda looks like rounded
out
glass, like sea glass...
>>VISITOR: The clay is sort of bent.
You don't
get clay exactly circle and with glass
you
get it perfect...
>>VISITOR: ...and game fish is full of
toys,
it's different games you can play...
>>ELLY: This is another artwork about
a feast.
>>SONNY: For this piece of silver
objects
the artist, Richard Mawdsley, used
drills,
sandpaper, and pliers to craft this
bracelet.
>>ELLY: Can you believe that bottle is
less
than an inch tall!?
>>SONNY: It is amazing that the artist
could
make such an intricate and small
design as
FEAST BRACELET.
>>SONNY: All of the artworks at the
Renwick
gallery are more than just techincal
challenges.
Each one is very personal to the
artist who
made it.
>>SONNY: This is much more than just a
beautiful
piece of furniture.
[music]
>>ELLY: There is a game of snakes and
ladders.
>>SONNY: There are curved drawers, and
hidden
drawers.
>>SONNY: When this BUREAU OF
BUREAUCRACY by
Kim Schmahmann is opened it tells the
story
of the artist's life.
>>ELLY: Schmahmann included documents
from
his life.
>>SONNY: In one of the 20 document
drawers
is the artist's birth certificate.
>>ELLY: There are also papers, that
he, a
white South African, had to have
during Apartheid.
>>SONNY: There is not only
storytelling here,
but also incredible skill and patience
from
the artist. This BUREAU OF BUREAUCRACY
took
Kim Schmahmann five years to make!
[music]
[pause]
>>ELLY: this artwork by Jocelyn
Chateauvert
may look like an abstract painting,
>>SONNY: but when you see it from an
angle...
you can see that it is not paint on a
canvas,
it is all made out of paper.
>>ELLY: Chateauvert made the paper
herself.
Then she twisted and turned it when it
was
wet. As it dried the individual pieces
of
paper shrank to what we see here.
>>SONNY: Together all the inidivdual
pieces
of paper make up the final product,
which
is entitled SCRATCH.
>>VISITOR: Are those still the pedals
in there?
Or did she put something else into the
pedals?
>>DOCENT: No, these are the pedals.
She opened
the pedals and impressed the pedals
down.
>>ELLY: The Renwick Gallery has a
touch cart
full of artworks dedicated by artists
specifically
for you to handle. You can feel the
weight
and texture and appreciate the skill
and artists
imagination. Only these objects can be
touched
in the museum.
>>ELLY: Not all ceramic crafts are
small enough
to hold in your hands. Standing in at
9 feet
tall, meet the creation of Viola Frey.
THE LADY IN BLUE AND YELLO DRESS was
made
in parts weighing up to 50 pounds.
>>SONNY: Each part of the sculpture
was then
able to fit inside the kiln.
>>ELLY: After Frey fired all the
pieces, she
then put them together and added a
steel bar
so that the sculpture would'nt fall.
[music]
>>SONNY: Sometimes it takes years of
training
to make the artworks we have seen.
>>ELLY: But to be a master crafts
artist it
also helps to be resourceful. Larry
Fuente
got most of his materials from a
second hand
store that was throwing out old toys.
>>SONNY: Just like a trophy or a fish
that you
can catch and put up on the wall to
show
off, the artist wanted this fish to be
SHOWY.
>>ELLY: With a parade of yo-yos, dice,
ping-pong
balls, dominoes,
>>SONNY: pez dispensers,
>>ELLY: this is about as SHOWY as
SHOWY gets.
[music]
>>SONNY: Now you know some of the
highlights
of the small and spectacluar Renwick
Gallery.
>>ELLY: Located just across the street
from
the White House.
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