Art gallery

Information about Art gallery

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.


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The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.


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The Museo del Prado in Madrid.


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The Louvre in Paris.


An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Paintings are the most commonly displayed medium; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, installation art and objects from the applied arts may also be shown.[1] Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as music concerts or poetry readings.

Types of Galleries

The term is used both for both public galleries, which are museums for the display of a permanent collection of art, and private galleries, which are commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However, both types of gallery may host temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.

Galleries in Museums

The rooms in museums where art is displayed for the public are often referred to as galleries as well, with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being called the Egypt Gallery, for example.

Contemporary Art Gallery

Main article: Contemporary art gallery
The term contemporary art gallery refers usually to a privately-owned for-profit commercial gallery. These galleries are often found clustered together in large urban centers. The Chelsea district of New York City, for example, is widely considered to be the center of the contemporary art world. Even smaller towns will be home to at least one gallery, but they may also be found in small communities, and remote areas where artists congregate, i.e. the Taos art colony and St Ives, Cornwall.

Contemporary art galleries are usually open to the general public without charge; however, some are semi-private. They usually profit by taking a cut of the art's sales; from 25 to 50% is usual. There are also many not-for-profit and art-collective galleries. Some galleries in cities like Tokyo charge the artists a flat rate per day, though this is considered distasteful in some international art markets. Galleries often hang solo shows. Curators often create group shows that say something about a certain theme, trend in art, or group of associated artists. Galleries sometimes choose to represent artists exclusively, giving them the opportunity to show regularly. One idiosyncrasy of contemporary art galleries is their aversion to signing business contracts, although this seems to be changing.

Vanity galleries

Main article: Vanity gallery
A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges fees from artists in order to show their work, much like a vanity press does for authors. The shows are not legitimately curated and will include as many artists as possible. Most art professionals are able to identify them on an artist's resume.[2]

Visual Art typically not shown in a gallery

Works on paper, such as drawings and old master prints are usually not chosen by curators to be permanently displayed for conservation reasons. Instead, any collection is held in a print room in the museum. Murals generally remain where they have been painted, although many have been removed to galleries. Various forms of 20th century art, such as land art and performance art, also usually exist outside a gallery. Photographic records of these kinds of art are often shown in galleries, however. Most museum and large art galleries own more works than they have room to display. The rest are held in reserve collections, on or off-site.

Similar to an art gallery is the sculpture garden (or sculpture park), which presents sculpture in an outdoor space. Sculpture installation has grown in popularity, whereby temporary sculptures are installed in open spaces during events like festivals.

Architecture

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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.


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São Paulo Museum of Art in São Paulo, Brazil


The architectural form of the art gallery was established by Sir John Soane with his design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1817.[3] This established the gallery as a series of interconnected rooms with largely uninterrupted wall spaces for hanging pictures and indirect lighting from skylights or roof lanterns.

The late 19th century saw a boom in the building of public art galleries in Europe and America, becoming an essential cultural feature of larger cities. More art galleries rose up alongside museums and public libraries as part of the municipal drive for literacy and public education.

In the late 20th century the dry old-fashioned view of art galleries was increasingly replaced with architecturally bold modern art galleries, often seen as international destinations for tourists in their own right. The first example of the architectural landmark art gallery would be the Guggenheim Museum in New York City by Frank Lloyd Wright. More recent outstanding examples include Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Mario Botta redesign of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Some critics argue that these galleries are self-defeating, in that their dramatic interior spaces distract the eye from the paintings they are supposed to exhibit.

Notable art museums

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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Interior of Bristol Art Gallery, Bristol, England. The large picture ‘Noah’s Ark’was painted in 1700 by the Dutch artist Jan Griffier.
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Inside the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
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Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery at night.
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The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
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The front of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.
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High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA.

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

List of notable contemporary galleries

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Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is based on some traditional Persian elements such as Badgirs, and yet has a spiraling design reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

See also

References

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2. ^ NYFA.org: 'Investing in Your Career, A Worth While Risk?'
3. ^ Dulwich Picture Gallery#History of the building
Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition".
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contemporary art gallery is a location where Contemporary art is shown and sold. "Art gallery" also is commonly used to mean art museum (especially in British English), the rooms used to display art in any museum, or in the original sense of any large or long room.
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contemporary art gallery is a location where Contemporary art is shown and sold. "Art gallery" also is commonly used to mean art museum (especially in British English), the rooms used to display art in any museum, or in the original sense of any large or long room.
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An article with drawings by Blumenschein about a ceremony at Taos Pueblo appeared in the July 10, 1898 issue of Harper's Weekly.
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A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges artists fees in order to exhibit their work and makes most of its money from artists rather than from sales to the public. Some vanity galleries charge a lump sum to arrange an exhibition, while others ask artists to pay regular
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Murals of sorts date to prehistoric times such as the paintings on the Caves of Lascaux in southern France, but the term became famous with the Mexican "muralista" art movement (Diego Rivera, David
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