Beyond the Paint

What do you see? What do you feel? Art can make us experience a range of emotions. This is one way that we connect to a work of art. In this episode, join our museum ambassadors Andrea, Ankhilan, and De’Yani as they talk about artworks that bring out strong emotions in viewers.

Objects: Superman, Two Women and a Child

What do you see? What do you feel? Art can make us experience a range of emotions. This is one way that we connect to a work of art. In this episode, join our museum ambassadors Andrea, Ankhilan, and De’Yani as they talk about artworks that bring out strong emotions in viewers.

Objects: Superman, Two Women and a Child

How does visual density affect how you look at an artwork? Join our museum ambassadors Noelle, Raquel, and Zune as they uncover the meaning behind the patterns and embellishments found in Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula’s Children’s story (water dreaming for two children), Nick Cave’s Soundsuit, and the season sarcophagus.

Objects: Season sarcophagus, Children’s story, Soundsuit

How does visual density affect how you look at an artwork? Join our museum ambassadors Noelle, Raquel, and Zune as they uncover the meaning behind the patterns and embellishments found in Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula’s Children’s story (water dreaming for two children), Nick Cave’s Soundsuit, and the season sarcophagus.

Objects: Season sarcophagus, Children’s story, Soundsuit

What do your beliefs mean to you? How do objects represent your beliefs? Join our museum ambassadors Andrea, Ankhilan, and De’Yani as they highlight the multiple ways that objects in the Fine Arts Museums’ collections symbolize belief systems from around the world.

Objects: Torso of a God, Hornbill Mask, The Adoration of Magi

What do your beliefs mean to you? How do objects represent your beliefs? Join our museum ambassadors Andrea, Ankhilan, and De’Yani as they highlight the multiple ways that objects in the Fine Arts Museums’ collections symbolize belief systems from around the world.

Objects: Torso of a God, Hornbill Mask, The Adoration of Magi

The second season of Local Voices features nine Bay Area teens as they reflect and share their own perspectives on objects from the Museums’ permanent collections. Through the themes of Belief, Density, Emotion, Material, Power, and Storytelling, the teens converse with curators, scholars, artists, and community members as well as family and friends to gain new insights and information.

The second season of Local Voices features nine Bay Area teens as they reflect and share their own perspectives on objects from the Museums’ permanent collections. Through the themes of Belief, Density, Emotion, Material, Power, and Storytelling, the teens converse with curators, scholars, artists, and community members as well as family and friends to gain new insights and information.

Artwork Credit:

Louis XV room (18th cent.) - 1735–1740

Carved oak with gilded ornamentation

365.8 x 762 x 853.4 cm (144 x 300 x 336 in.)

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection

51.2.1

Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Artwork Credit:

Louis XV room (18th cent.) - 1735–1740

Carved oak with gilded ornamentation

365.8 x 762 x 853.4 cm (144 x 300 x 336 in.)

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection

51.2.1

Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco