{"id":393,"date":"2017-01-30T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/?p=393"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:32:25","slug":"blog-post-2-map-analysis-of-the-van-gogh-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/2017\/01\/30\/blog-post-2-map-analysis-of-the-van-gogh-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 2 &#8211; Map Analysis of the Van Gogh Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-399 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Van-Gogh-Museum_Floor-Plan_01-2016_EN.pdf-copy-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Van-Gogh-Museum_Floor-Plan_01-2016_EN.pdf-copy-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Van-Gogh-Museum_Floor-Plan_01-2016_EN.pdf-copy.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of my most memorable museum experiences was at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Initially, I knew very little about the artist let alone his artwork. By the time I reached the\u00a0last collection, however, my heart was aching as I witnessed\u00a0Van Gogh&#8217;s beautifully\u00a0depicted agony strewn into his\u00a0final paintings. I believe this is precisely what the museum envisions for its\u00a0visitor experience: it\u00a0places visitors\u00a0in his shoes as they learn to appreciate the fullness of his\u00a0artwork and visualize\u00a0toiling through the intense struggles and emotions he faced during his life.<\/p>\n<p>The building has five\u00a0levels (A, 0, 1, 2, and 3), but the real story begins on ground 0. Here, self-portraits are shown alongside a timeline of the artist&#8217;s life to give the visitors a contrasting representation between the subjective and objective Van Gogh. From there, floors are categorized chronologically: level 1 depicts his lifework from\u00a01883 to 1889, including\u00a0paintings from peasant life to modern art inspired by Paris and Japan, while level 3 depicts those from 1889-1890, including natural artistry and artwork from artists inspired by Van Gogh. However, this museum is unique in that between these two life stages is a collection of his personal memorabilia. Thus, this floor plan&#8217;s design was constructed with the intent of giving the visitors a more comprehensive understanding of the artist himself. While the first floor emphasizes Van Gogh&#8217;s maturation as an artist and relays the technical artistic functions of each piece, the tone\u00a0is different as the visitor experiences the humanness of his intimate letters and exchanges with family and friends on the second floor. By the time visitors enter into the third floor, these tones come together as the technically orchestrated paintings are interlaced with inspirations from\u00a0significant people in his life. In this way, the museum attempts to make rational sense out of Van Gogh&#8217;s life by putting everything in the order that it happened and trying to create an immersion of\u00a0empathetic experiences.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative way of designing this museum might be to categorize pieces by the major styles of artwork, for example by landscapes, portraits of people, portraits of objects, and florals. The personal memorabilia would then be placed near paintings that are closest in relevance and historical significance. This in turn would shift the vision from one that exemplifies Van Gogh&#8217;s life story and his personal attributes to one that highlights the deeper technical artistry of his collections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my most memorable museum experiences was at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Initially, I knew very little<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}