You have the earthly level on the bottom, and then the heavenly level on the top where you have the angels and the glow of heaven. American Gothic (The Essentials Tour)

Andō Gallery, 1992 It would’ve been possible for pilgrims to circumambulate the Buddha and that is the way in which you honour a sacred being.I think stained glass windows, though something that he turned to late in his career, are perhaps the best carrier of Chagall’s great sensibility with color.And so you see the empty tomb with the lid pulled off.

All Tags You cannot miss it. And to make it, as he said, like the Parthenon frieze, but using modern people in all their traits.A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884/86 The figures are very dramatic in their gestures, in their reactions.Chagall, a Russian who lived primarily in France, admired America. Look for the special leggings: small plates of steel are sewn between two pieces of linen to protect the soldier’s legs. NARRATOR: ‘Nightlife’ by Archibald Motley, depicts the vibrant scene of a jazz nightclub in Bronzeville, a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. But it’s rather a very different approach to picture-making. Exhibition & Events European painting In the next gallery you’ll see Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ which is also a study of interior space and of lighting. But it’s really done by a master who realizes that quiet moves can speak as powerfully and as profoundly as showy ones.

European painting NARRATOR: The strong angular lines enliven the painting, making the figures move and dance across it’s surface. (0’29”)MADHUVANTI GHOSH: Unfortunately, it’s quite illegible so it so we haven’t been able to decipher it yet. And so there’s a moment of confusion, and then there’s this clarity. In 1920, this country was predominantly urban, and no longer rural. Resources And so he breaks up the surface with these little dots of pigment. According to Tripadvisor travelers, these are the best ways to experience The Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago CityPASS (From $109.00) Go Chicago Explorer Pass with SkyDeck and 360 Chicago (From $66.00) Big Bus Chicago Hop-On Hop-Off Tour (From $29.00) Historic Chicago South Side Tour with Chicago Style Pizza (From $52.95) Painted in the summer of 1965, when Georgia O’Keeffe was 77 years old, this monumental work culminates the artist’s series based on her experiences as an airplane passenger during the 1950s. This iconic painting of an all-night diner in which three customers sit together and yet seem totally isolated from one another has become one of the best-known images of 20th-century art. {musical pause} So the Buddha faces sculptures from South East Asia, which you see on either side of him.

The belief was that the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, was so holy and so pure that following her death, it wasn’t just her soul that was taken up into heaven, but rather her entire body was physically taken up into heaven.JANICE KATZ: They are there in order to create a mental transition.

If you are an Illinois resident you can visit the institute every weekday in the winter for free. But in Nightlife, Motley depicts the pleasure and sense of community that many people found in the city’s urban nightlife. I’ve always considered it the chapel of the Art Institute. The Museum's recent expansion added a shop, a cafe and a restaurant, so yes, take the whole day off and spend it here, with lunch in between exhibits.

In an interview in his later years he said… It’s a sense of place recreated in the artist’s mind. One of the most famous American paintings of all time, this double portrait by Grant Wood debuted at the Art Institute in 1930, winning the artist a $300 prize and instant fame. During the 1930s and 40s, this area was home to 90 per cent of the city’s African-American population, who, like Motley’s family, moved to Chicago from southern states in search of economic opportunity and freedom from racism. Have fun visiting the institute! Caught in the heat of battle with sword raised and horse rearing, this mounted figure may match many notions of a knight in shining armor but actually represents a common hired soldier. MADHUVANTI GHOSH: As you walk into the Alsdorf Galleries, the sculpture that takes one’s eye is this very large Buddha who is seated in meditation.JUDY BARTER: He was well known for his palette. Support Us

City Landscape (The Essentials Tour) And the representation of speed and energy here is really important, but Mitchell herself tended to work deliberately.

Modern and contemporary art And that is what is his completely different approach to painting.