The Best Times To Visit the Art Institute Of Chicago

Introduction

The Art Institute of Chicago has the purpose of collecting and preserving works of art of the highest standards, and represents the world's various artistic traditions, inspiring and educating the public. Tourists prefer to visit this Institute all time of the year, and if you are around, it is great to pay a visit here.
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 with the intent to be a museum and school, was located on the southwest corner of State and Monroe Streets. The museum then opened its doors on its present location at Michigan Avenue and Adams Street in 1893. Both locations are available for visiting any time of the year.

History

After the 1871 fire in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago housed a beautiful collection of plaster casts and the management had a goal: they wanted to acquire and exhibit various kinds of art and conduct educational programs. The Art Institute of Chicago is now the home of 5,000 years of art from varied cultures around the world, that is available for you during the working days, and sometimes during the weekend also. Their educational courses are ranked very high in the country. In the next ten years, the management will build a new complex with the purpose of expanding the institute.
The Art Institute was first built as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1879. That changed in 1882 when the Academy decided to expand because of it s ever growing collections of art and number of students. A new building was negotiated with the local authorities, and in 1893, the Art Institute of Chicago was on its way to become a great museum. The next year the art institute had received a donation, very valuable French paintings, increasing the institute's prestige.

Features

With its various collections the institute is a very special place to visit, anyone can find something they like from very old exhibits to modern art. You can find there beautiful things which are a joy to look at .The Art Institute of Chicago has between its walls the third largest collection in the United States almost 300,000 objects, the best collections are Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings , European sculpture , Japanese prints and more.
The Japanese prints were very well regarded in the past; Van Gogh was one of the people who thought it was a fine form of art. In 1887, Van Gogh's admiration for Japanese art led him to make copies of Hiroshige's two paintings, the famous Japanese artist. One of these paintings is "Bridge in the Rain" and the other depicts a plum tree in bloom. Hiroshige is one of the few artists who used Western elements in their prints - the most obvious Western element was the use of perspective, in the painting "Bridge in the rain." The two Van Gogh's copies after Hiroshige are more transcriptions and he decorated them with what he considered to be "Japanese characters." The colors used by Van Gogh were different from the original. Instead, he used his concept of complementary colors such as green and red.

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