Dhakal 1 Dhakal 7 Rupesh Dhakal Professor Richard Miller ARTS-1301-77204 7 October 2019 Research Paper: Museum Visit  This paper focuses on my visit to a museum and the art work presented there. I have visited the museum last week particularly for this assignment. The museum name is Dallas Museum of Art. Part # 1 For this part I have selected an art work named “standing female figure.” Standing Female Figure is belongs to the Mexico: state of Tamaulipas of Huastec culture. This art piece is a part of Early Post-classic period, c. A.D. 900 - 1250 Sandstone Gift of Norbert Schimmel in memory of Evelin Schimmel, 1989.82. It is presented in Dallas Museum of Art. This sculpture is made up of clay. It is of brown color, and visually it is a lady who is standing straight. Its condition is good, but I saw few cracks on it which shows it’s a part of a very old heritage. Although there is no long description of the art piece on the wall of museum, but the as I research about “standing female figure,” I found that the artist intended to describe the rights of a woman of that time. At the time, in Mexico there are near to no rights given to the woman and the artist observed that issue and created a sculpture with clay with a hope to present a true image and role of a woman in the society. This sculpture “standing female figure” gives a message of equal rights and a very important role of females in building up the community. In early post-classic period, c. A.D. 900 – 1250, the Mexican people failed to provide equal rights to both the genders and discriminate among male and female. The very important point and message is hidden in this sculpture “standing female figure” that woman have a very important role to create a successful society. There are many emotions connected with this art piece because after thousands of years later this social issue still exists in our world, there are so many places where we swab the rights of women and trying to compress their roles in the society. This art piece “standing female figure” is able to take you in that time. Here is my picture with the “Standing Female Figure.” It was a great experience of visiting the museum and witnesses so many artworks under one roof. This gave me an opportunity to analysis and learned more about art and the history and messages attached to them. Standing Female Figure seems so old and unique in a way and also describing its message of the female role in a society of its time very simply. It’s a beautiful clay statue, standing and welcoming people who came to visit her and simply explaining the artist’s message. Part # 2 Recently, I got a chance to visit the "Dallas Museum of Art" for the first time. That evening allowed me to study and examine art on a significant level by building skills and relationships with artworks by the decades. I was assigned the responsibility to choose three artworks and to record a social analysis highlighting the components and beliefs of art before stu ...

1. Dhakal 1
Dhakal 7
Rupesh Dhakal
Professor Richard Miller
ARTS-1301-77204
7 October 2019
Research Paper: Museum Visit
This paper focuses on my visit to a museum and the art work
presented there. I have visited the museum last week
particularly for this assignment. The museum name is Dallas
Museum of Art.
Part # 1
For this part I have selected an art work named “standing
female figure.” Standing Female Figure is belongs to the
Mexico: state of Tamaulipas of Huastec culture. This art piece
is a part of Early Post-classic period, c. A.D. 900 - 1250
Sandstone Gift of Norbert Schimmel in memory of Evelin
Schimmel, 1989.82. It is presented in Dallas Museum of Art.
This sculpture is made up of clay. It is of brown color, and
visually it is a lady who is standing straight. Its condition is
good, but I saw few cracks on it which shows it’s a part of a
very old heritage.
Although there is no long description of the art piece on the
wall of museum, but the as I research about “standing female
figure,” I found that the artist intended to describe the rights of
a woman of that time. At the time, in Mexico there are near to
no rights given to the woman and the artist observed that issue
and created a sculpture with clay with a hope to present a true
image and role of a woman in the society. This sculpture
“standing female figure” gives a message of equal rights and a
very important role of females in building up the community.

2. In early post-classic period, c. A.D. 900 – 1250, the Mexican
people failed to provide equal rights to both the genders and
discriminate among male and female. The very important point
and message is hidden in this sculpture “standing female figure”
that woman have a very important role to create a successful
society. There are many emotions connected with this art piece
because after thousands of years later this social issue still
exists in our world, there are so many places where we swab the
rights of women and trying to compress their roles in the
society. This art piece “standing female figure” is able to take
you in that time.
Here is my picture with the “Standing Female Figure.” It was a
great experience of visiting the museum and witnesses so many
artworks under one roof. This gave me an opportunity to
analysis and learned more about art and the history and
messages attached to them. Standing Female Figure seems so
old and unique in a way and also describing its message of the
female role in a society of its time very simply. It’s a beautiful
clay statue, standing and welcoming people who came to visit
her and simply explaining the artist’s message.
Part # 2
Recently, I got a chance to visit the "Dallas Museum of Art" for
the first time. That evening allowed me to study and examine
art on a significant level by building skills and relationships
with artworks by the decades. I was assigned the responsibility
to choose three artworks and to record a social analysis
highlighting the components and beliefs of art before studied in
my class. In this part I have selected three art pieces from the
collection of the museum. All the pieces of art are fascinated
me but few of them were very interesting and on the basis of
those three, I will present my report on the art in the society.
The three art pieces which I have selected include a sculpture of
“Shiva Nataraja,” second is a sculpture of “Durga,” and at the
last “Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette.”
The sculpture of Shiva Nataraja was created in 11 century. It

3. belongs to the country “India”, Tamil Nadu. It is a part of the
heritage of Chola dynasty. It is made of a bronze material.
Second is a sculpture of Durga, it belongs to the country India,
Rajasthan. A sculpture of Durga was created in the 11 century
and the material which is used to make it is “Red Sandstone.”
Third art piece which I have selected is Seasickness at the Ball,
on Board an English Corvette. This art piece belongs to the
country France and the time period of its invention is around
1798 to 1882, probably 1880s was a time when this art piece
was created. The size of a painting is 87.8 x 131.4 cm and the
materials of this art piece are oil and canvas, it is an oil
painting.
In current years, the Dallas Museum of Art has grown its art
pieces which belong to South Asian from a little piece of Indian
pagoda statues to approximately 500 products, including
Buddhist and Hindu statues from India, Himalayan Buddhist
statue of bronze and custom things, art pieces from Southeast
Asia, and ornamental arts from Mughal time of India. The
sculpture of Shiva Nataraja and sculpture of Durga is a part of
this collection, which presents the artwork from the starting
period to 14th century. Artworks in the group's own creations
from the late Ottoman imperialism to Java and structural arts
propose the beauty of structures in the tradition of India. This
art piece shows the artistic and cultural importance of more than
140 highlighted pictures, which vary from Indian miniature
sketches and Tibetan thangkas to stone and bronze
statues("Durga," in_ Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the
Collection, 2012). Describing certain art pieces to one another
by cross-references and interconnecting stories, curators and
scholars give a deep cultural history of the country. These all
art pieces give me an idea of the importance and value of art
from the starting period to 14th century.
The sculpture of Durga is presenting the intercultural values and
values and traditions of a particular region of the world. The
sculpture of Durga belongs to India and it also touches and

4. connects the Hindu and Baddish culture and tradition. My
personal interpretation is based on the story which I have heard
after my visit to that museum. The sculpture of Durga fascinates
me the most and I personally found a message of this creation.
The story of Durga which also presents its message, Durga is
the goddess who is a military-style of the Royal Goddess. Durga
is apparently described here in her figure as Kali, an angry
appearance of the goddess Bhadrakali, whose title indicates the
time and is consequently connected with change, destruction,
and death. In the great remembered tale regarding Durga, she
kills a devil that was looked like a buffalo, and in a dancing
dedicating her success she runs out of limitation, moving the
world. Her partner, God Shiva, extends down below her soles to
embody the consequence of her celebration. Against thought she
is grinding her partner, Goddess Durga arrives at her thoughts
and returns to rest and calm (Frederick M.,2013). This statue
also presenting a message of a power which is totally belongs to
the women of this world. How a woman can help her husband,
how she can be a part of a great success, and how can she
celebrate and free to celebrate in her own way. This art piece is
totally gives a message of social responsibility toward right
things.
“Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette” is an
art piece which makes me able to belong to history. A
courageous artist, François-Auguste Biard obtained numerous
hallucinations throughout the first component of the 19th
century. He connects the audience of his painting with the
history of French travellers. He was apparently the greatest
European artist to visit to the Arctic Circle and paint icecaps.
He was further, as observed in this picture, a classic author of
modern history. “Seasickness at the Ball on Board an English
Corvette” was portrayed by Francois-Auguste Biard, who is a
French painter. This painting, created in the year between the
1860s, was drawn utilizing a smooth brush method and had a
recurrence of shades white and red. Biard utilized one tip scene

5. at an edge to accomplish the image of the bottom in the picture.
The lady at the middle reading a book is a focal point of a
picture. No one else in the picture has as enough importance as
her. Accurately and carefully drafted, this jammed picture is an
important illustration of passing the English Channel in the
center of the 19th century. The pitching ship throws an invented
shipboard globe. Toward the portside, a harpist has befallen
among the limbs of her fellow guitarist while a junior traveler,
composed, proceeds to demand for money. The entire crowd in
this artwork includes various means passengers react to a
circumstance. Few survive a rough period of seasickness, fall on
everyone, cry, and scream, while few vapor, rest, or study,
following their normal habits("A Biard Painting Donated to the
Dallas Museum of Art - The Art Tribune", 2019). Listening to
attire, diverse classes, and the moment information of
characteristics forms a valuable and funny history of French
community in the middle of 19th century. This art piece shows
an illusion from 15th century to the present date.
The comparison between all of these artworks that are a
sculpture of “Shiva Nataraja,” a sculpture of “Durga,” and
“Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette,” is very
obvious. If we compare “Shiva Nataraja” and “Durga,” then
there is not much difference between the culture and people
belongs both of the sculptures. Both belong to the Indian
culture, and both are the God and Goddess of the Hindu people.
There is a relation between both of the sculptures, and that is
that “Durga” and “Shiva Nataraja” were husband and wife
according to the Hindu people and cultural history. The culture
of India is totally different from the remaining world; there are
a vast vulture and history of God and Goddess in India. And
both of the sculptures presenting the faith, believe, and history
of Hindu people and India. If we talk about the painting
“Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an English Corvette,” then

6. we can find many differences from the other two sculptures.
This painting was created in the 1860s in the region of France.
If we compare both the sculptures “Shiva Nataraja” and
“Durga” with a painting “Seasickness at the Ball, on Board an
English Corvette,” then we found much difference among their
people, history, and culture that is belonged with all these
artworks. Both the sculptures “Shiva Nataraja” and “Durga have
belonged to India and Hindu people and “Seasickness at the
Ball, on Board an English Corvette” belongs to French people.
The dresses wore by the people in the painting, showing their
French culture. If we compare the history and the time of
creation, then both types of artworks are from different eras.
The painting is presenting a scene of panic, of rough weather,
and a ship in a sea, whereas both the sculptures “Shiva
Nataraja” and “Durga presenting faith and believe, and hope
that has belonged with the God and Goddess.
Work Cited
A Biard Painting Donated to the Dallas Museum of Art - The
Art Tribune. (2019). Retrieved 7 October 2019, from

7. http://www.thearttribune.com/A-Biard-Painting-Donated-to-
the.html
"Durga," in_ Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection,
_ ed. Bonnie Pitman (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 100.
Frederick M. Asher, "Durga," in The Arts of India, South East
Asia, and the Himalayas, Anne R. Bromberg (Dallas: Dallas
Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 83.
François-Auguste Biard (1798-1882), Seasickness at the Ball on
Board an English Corvette, 1857, Dallas Museum of Art, Gift
of J.E.R. Chilton.
1. (Altar depicting the first female ancestor(luli))
19th century
2. (Jonah swallowed by the whale)
3. Gelede Mask representing a northernr(20th century)
(image attach in the document)
Museum Critical Review Assignment and WorksheetCRITICAL
THINKING AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY VALUE
RUBRIC
I hope you are inspired by your visit. Please remember to not
use a flash with your cameras. Ask before taking a photo, and
no CELL PHONE usage during your visits unless you are
participating in the media challenges at the museums (points
program). Remember that all art is precious, so stay 12 inches
away from the art, walls and art cases, please. This assignment
is designed to meet both Communication and Social

8. Responsibility Student Learning Objectives.
There are 2 parts to your Museum Critical Review assignment to
be completed after visiting one or more of the following
museums*:
Dallas Museum of Art www.dma.org/
Kimbell Art Museum www.kimbellart.org
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth www.themodern.org
Amon Carter Museum of American Art www.cartermuseum.org
*Not all of the museums will have the diversity of time periods
that you will need to complete the assignment. You may have
to visit more than one of the listed museums if you choose to go
to one of the more time or region specific museums. Your
instructor may choose to allow only a few of these museums to
meet the assignment assessment.
Part 1. CRITICAL REVIEW of Favorite Artwork-- 75 Points
Don’t forget to find a favorite piece anywhere inside or outside
of the museum. Collect the information to complete the critical
review later.
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The purpose of this review is to critically interpret and evaluate
a work of art. (ACGM guidelines, 2015).
Based on student attendance a museum exhibition in their
community
A critical analysis with personal reflection that
demonstrates comprehension of event.
The date, place and time of the event will be cited as a source
material
A minimum of 300 words, typed double-paced 12 point font
Measured with objective standards of Creative Thinking
VALUE rubric

9. This critical review should be a minimum of 300 words, typed
double-spaced 12-point font. The assignment will be submitted
via Blackboard as instructed.
1. Description of art object (100 words) up to 30% of points
earned for assignment________
Write the name of the art work being discussed, the artist’s
name, the date, time, name of museum, size, description of the
piece or composition, and the location. In the description, create
a visual image with words.
2. Analysis of the art object (100 words) up to 40% of
points earned for assignment________
Based on the description provided in the
introduction, analyze the artist’s intent or message within the
work of art. Provide notated research (inquiry) to
further interpret the background of the artist and the era in
which it was created. The innovation and expression of
ideas of the artist should be better understood through this
research. Discuss the Visual Elements and Principles of
Design. Which Visual Elements and Principles of Design are
present in this work of art and give examples. (The visual
elements and principles of design are listed and defined at the
bottom of the worksheet.)
3. Interpretation of the art object (100 words) up to 30% of
points earned for assignment ________
Discuss the content of the piece. Why was it created? Does it
have a narrative or discuss social issues? What emotional
feeling is present? Summarize your reaction to this art object.
4. PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF YOUR ATTENDANCE AT
THIS MUSEUM. ATTACH OF PHOTO OF YOURSELF IN
FRONT OF THE WORK OF ART IN THE MUSEUM, OR IF
THIS IS NOT ALLOWED, IN FRONT OF THE MUSEUM
SIGN.

10. Part 2: TOUR OF MUSEUM— MUSEUM WORKSHEET, 125
points
NEW ACGM guidelines 2015:
1. Select 3 works of art in this museum. Identify and describe
these works of art based on their chronology (the time period
they were created) and style, using the Visual Elements and
Principles of Design as standard categories and terminology.
2. At least one of the objects you choose should allow you
to investigate major artistic developments and significant works
of art from the prehistoric period to the 14th century.
3. At least one work should reflect an understanding of inter
cultural values and ideas expressed by the creative artists. Write
a critical analysis with personal reflection that will demonstrate
comprehension of this event and its impact on the community.
4. Analyze the relationship of art to history by placing works of
art within cultural, historical, and chronological contexts by
comparing one piece you have selected from a particular period
to another piece you have selected from the 15th century to the
present.
Here’s a space for your notes to complete your MUSEUM
WORKSHEET 125 POINTS ASSIGNMENT:
1. Select 3 works of art in this museum. Identify and describe
these works of art based on their chronology (the time period
they were created) and style, using the Visual Elements and
Principles of Design as standard categories and terminology.
2. At least one of the objects you choose should allow you to
investigate major artistic developments and significant works of

11. art from the prehistoric period to the 14thcentury.
3. At least one work should reflect an understanding of
intercultural values and ideas expressed by the creative artists.
Write a critical analysis with personal reflection that will
demonstrate comprehension of this event and its impact on the
community. Consider if the impact might be social
responsibility in regard to political, religious or community
presented in the imagery.
4. Analyze the relationship of art to history by placing works of
art within cultural, historical, and chronological contexts by
comparing one piece you have selected from a particular period
to another piece you have selected from the 15th century to the
present.
WHICH 3 PIECES FROM THE TOUR ARE YOU SELECTING?
1. NAME OF PIECE from Prehistoric to the 14th Century
DESCRIPTION OF PIECE
DATE OF PIECE
MAJOR ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENTS
2. NAME OF PIECE that reflects intercultural values and ideas
DESCRIPTION OF PIECE
DATE OF PIECE AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS WITH
PERSONAL REFLECTION THAT DEMONSTRATES
COMPREHENSION OF THIS EVENT AND ITS IMPACT ON
THE COMMUNITY.
3. NAME OF PIECE from the 15th century to the present
DESCRIPTION OF PIECE
DATE OF PIECE
MAJOR ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENTS

12. 4. ANALYZE THE RELATIONSHIP OF ART TO HISTORY
BY PLACING WORKS OF ART WITHIN CULTURAL,
HISTORICAL, AND CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXTS BY
COMPARING ONE PIECE YOU HAVE SELECTED FROM A
PARTICULAR PERIOD TO ANOTHER PIECE YOU HAVE
SELECTED FROM THE 15TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT.
Look for these VISUAL ELEMENTS: visual tools an artist has
to make a work of art
1. Line: Lines can show outline, imply a third dimension, show
direction or movement
2. Shape and Mass: Shape refers to 2 dimensions, for instance,
a square. Mass refers to 3 dimensions, for instance, a cube.
3. Light: Light reveals form. Where is the light source? What
is the range of values, from light to dark, in the art you are
reviewing?
4. Color: How does the artist use color in the art object you
are reviewing? Is it the primary colors only? Is it emotionally
soothing or jarring?
5. Texture and pattern: Does the art object you are viewing
have actual texture, could you feel it? Or does it have implied
texture, suggesting that it is smooth or rough? Does it have an
overall pattern on the surface?
6. Space: If your object is architectural or sculptural, it will
have 3-dimensional space. Try to describe the space. If your
object is two dimensional, how does the artist imply space, for
example, through linear perspective, overlapping of objects,
smaller or larger objects, or atmospheric perspective?
7. Time and motion: Does the art object imply time, for
instance, a sunset, or motion, for instance, a sculpture that
moves?
Look for these PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN: the organization of
the composition or design of the art work

13. 1. Unity and Variety: Unity is a sense of oneness in the art.
Variety maintains interest in art
2. Balance: Symmetrical balance occurs when both sides of the
art object are similar in size or shape. Asymmetrical balance
occurs when the two sides are quite different in the appearance
of the objects in the art.
3. Emphasis and Subordination: How does the artist draw your
eye to the center of attention of the art object? How does the
artist make the rest of the painting subordinate to the center of
interest?
4. Scale and Proportion: Scale means size in relation to a
standard or "normal" size. Proportion refers to size
relationships between parts of a whole, or between two or more
items perceived as a unit. Sometimes these are deliberately
incorrect, as in Hierarchal Scale in the art of antiquity.
5. Rhythm or repetition: The repeated use of a color, shape or
line to create expression