by Emily Snell | May 18, 2012 | News Slider
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts participated in Art Museum Day by offering free admission today. The Association of Art Museum Directors sponsored Art Museum Day on May 18, which is also International Museum Day, in hopes of making art more accessible to the public. The theme for International Museum Day—“Museums in a Changing World: New Challenges, New Inspirations”—reflects the changing role of museums in our society, according to Maggie Carrigan, communications coordinator at the Frist. “I think that museums in this day and age are changing really quickly with the advent of social media,” Carrigan said, explaining that the museum is trying to create both an “on-site way for the community to engage and an online way for the community to engage.” According to a news release from the museum, the International Museum Day theme invites guests “to ponder the role of museums in our culture of new media and social responsibility.” Carrigan said the museum wanted to “create a conversation” and encouraged visitors to share their museum experience on social media using the hashtag #ArtMuseumDay. “Our main goal is to help people understand their world in new ways through art,” she said. “We’re always looking for new ways to do that.” Current exhibits at the Frist include “Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination” and “Connecting Cultures.” The Martin ArtQuest Gallery is a permanent Frist exhibit that allows guests to experience art hands-on through a variety of creation and reflection stations including blocks, abstract drawing, printmaking, stop motion video and painting. Carrigan said she would encourage college students to visit the Frist, even if they aren’t naturally drawn to art....
by Clay Smith | Feb 20, 2012 | News Slider, Opinion
Daniel Johnston – you may not recognize his name, but you’ve probably heard his music. You may have even seen his “Hi How are you” frog, an iconic image of Austin, Texas. Please upgrade your browser Daniel Johnston started his artistic and musical career in his basement, but he’s influenced and been covered by acts such as Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, and Pearl Jam. So what brought this world-renowned songwriter to play a free concert in Alumni on Feb. 10? As it so happens, one of our own musical faculty, Dr. Sally Reed, is the sister of Daniel Johnston. Thanks to this connection, Lipscomb’s music department was able to put on one of its most unique and highly attended performances of the year, with a crowd of over 700. Johnston was glad to be able to perform in a venue where people of all ages were able to attend. In addition to his free concert, Johnston’s art will be featured in an exhibit in the Hughes Center through March 15. Johnston has suffered from schizophrenia and manic depression since his 20s, which has had a large effect on his music and art. His art is full of the angst that goes hand in hand with his ongoing mental battle. From vibrant cartoon images to the struggle between good and evil, it leaves the viewer yearning to learn more of the mystery. Some would call his pieces a trendy interpretation; others say it is a trip through his thought process, or a man searching for sanity. Even after a lifetime of albums and artwork, Johnston says he is...
by Hunter Patterson | Oct 17, 2011 | News Slider
What do you see when you look at the Mona Lisa? Do you see a mediocre looking woman, or a wonderful, timeless piece of art? What about Jackson Pollock’s Nov. 5, 1948? Do you see the most expensive piece in art’s history or do you feel like the painting could have been done by one of us here at Lipscomb? Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “In order correctly to define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life. Viewing it in this way we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse between man and man.” Peep the video below to see what some of Lipscomb’s students thought art really was. Please upgrade your browser video by Brynn...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Sep 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
STUDENT CENTER – Tanner Dalton is an artist. He’s also a junior Political Science major. Dalton says that, for him, Coffee House is a great place for students to express themselves artistically, while still being able to pursue their major. For more, watch below. Please upgrade your...
by Clay Smith | Apr 12, 2010 | News Slider
Bob Dylan, Bridgett Bardot, Julie Christie, Richard Price, Damien Hurst. What do all of these people have in common? They were all directly impacted by the life and work of Andy Warhol. The Art department presented its second event in the 2010 Presidential Lectureship series Thursday night in Ezell. Dr. Thomas Crow, the featured speaker, addressed the topic “Understanding Andy Warhol.” Crow is a distinguished art historian who has written six books and has taught at both Princeton University and Yale University. He now teaches modern art history at New York University. Crow was answering two main questions in his lecture: what makes Andy Warhol such an iconic figure, and why is his artwork still considered relevant, even though most of his paintings are nearly 50 years old? He began by addressing the direction of art before Warhol. Artists like Richard Hamilton began to experiment with creating art from arising celebrities and iconic figures. This reassembling of advertising and media allowed for the beginning of a new type of artistic expression, called pop art. Crow quoted Mark Rothko, who said, “The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.” Warhol is an icon himself in art, and each of his paintings has been meticulously scrutinized for any shred of meaning. However, few people have been looking at how his works resemble one another. Crow suggested that the common motifs in Warhol’s paintings might speak as loud as each painting individually. Crow pointed to the different depictions of people, such as the...
