2b Asian Art Museum San Francisco

Contains the sources you used with links to these sources .25 points
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Art_Museum_of_San_Francisco
http://www.asianart.org/history.htm

Contains a brief paragraph how it connects to your study of humanities. 1 point
This Asian Art Museum connects very well with the study of humanities because the museum is a museum with more that just art, it focuses on history as well. It is one of the larges mesuems that focus strictly on Asian Art. Also the first parts of the Asian Musuem pieces were dontaed by Avery Brundage who was a millionare at the time. But the conditions were that they needed to build a mesuem to house the pieces. It was a wing of M.H. de Young Museum. There was a quote which is a great summary of how this connects with humanities that was stated by Brundage saysing "In presenting this collection to San Francisco my hope is that together with the facilities of the regions great universities it will help San Francisco and the Bay Area become one of the world's greatest centers of Oriental Culture. Today it has more than 17,000 objects which makes it the largest museum in the United States devoted to just Asian arts. It is was located in the Golden Gate PArk, but has recently moved across the street from the Civic Center. Some of their pieces are over 6,000 years old.

Contains the following "analytical elements":
Observation: What did you choose? What do you see or hear or feel or think of in the choice you made? What is the subject of the work? If you chose a 'thing' what is the work made of and what techniques (colors, lines, shapes, textures)does the creator use? Be specific in your description. If you chose a place, be specific in your description of what you see or hear. Talk to your reader as though they cannot see the item but somehow must draw a painting of what you see or hear. 1 point

I chose the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. When you hear about this musuem you think of the great dynastys of China. You think of the samurais and all of their weapons and protection gear. You think and see dragons of all different colors and solid gold objects as well. You think of jade and precious stones that were valued so much along with their coins that have a square in the center. The subject of the work is anything that is Asian is valued in this musuem no matter how new or old or what condition it may be in.

Interpretation: What is your choice about? Give specific examples to support this statement in 2 sentences; do so in a way that teaches us something about your choice. Make Paulo Freire proud! .75 point
My choice is about celebrating your culture in one place and at the same time learning alot about the culture as well. Which is just like Paulo Freires idea of getting hands on learning techniques.

Judgment: What led you to your choice? What do you think or feel about this choice? Why do
you feel this way? Support your thoughts with specific observations. .5 point
I chose this because I remember when I went to the Asian Art Museum in sixth grade and I thought it was so awesome even though I wasn't really that into Asian Art let alone art at all. I just remember that I never got sick of wandering through the museum. When I think about this choice I think of all the jade pieces they had at the museum. They were so beautiful. I feel this way because I feel like jade is just so pure.

Questioning: What else would you like to know about this choice? When completing the question section, lead your audience into the question by stating a fact you do know, yet you still have the related question. This way, both your audience and you will have an educational experience. Example: I learned that John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath was based on his personal experience working with farm workers. I would like to know if the characters he used in that book are fictitious or are they people he met? .5 point
I know that Avery Brundage owned many Asian pieces, but I want to know why he was so interested in the Asian culture specifically the Asian Art part of the culture.

5. Using your classmates work from last week, tell us one thing you learned from 1 student. Is this one thing some common experience you share or some experience that is completely different than what you experienced? Is this one thing related to our class theoretical foundation and if so, how? Is that one thing related to historical or cultural context of this country or a different one? Link that persons blog to this entry (eg cut paste that blog entry here) . .5 point

One thing that I learned from Carly Overlid was that San Francisco does really contain a lot of cultural aspects and one definately is the Giants baseball. When I went to a game once there were so many people there and a lot of people make it their weekend routine to go cheer on the Giants. Those fans also get pretty into it and take baseball very seriously. It is a cultural ritual for some people who love baseball.