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Welcome to the Urban Culture course at Avila University created by Susan Lawlor and Dotty Hamilton.  We travel with our students to great cities to explore art museums, engage with the architecture, study the local film and music venues, and experience the ethnic enclaves as a way to learn about the culture of urban spaces and the interaction of art and environment.  It's a fun, intense learning environment.  

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Musee d'Art Comtempoirain

We began Friday morning with a tour of the Museum of Contemporary Art.  Unfortunately, no photos are allowed in the museum.  Our tour guide, Tracy, gave us a memorable tour that began with the history of abstract art in Canada.  Garrett aptly named a particularly monochromatic painting, Heinz 57.  These pieces challenged our notions of art and even posed the question whether a painting without paint is still a painting.
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  1. UnknownMay 21, 2013 at 9:08 PM

    I learned more on this tour about contemporary art and how it generally came to be than I have every know before. The tour guide was excellent. She was able to convey how this type of art began and why and still keep us involved in figuring out for ourselves how we felt about certain pieces of art that was representative of modern / contemporary art time period.
    it was also a great lesson in general how to just look at art and be objective and open to what it means. Heather P

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