Art Institute of Chicago

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Established
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School type
Mosquito ringtone Private school/Private


School President
Sabrina Martins Tony Jones CBE/Tony Jones


Location
Nextel ringtones Chicago, Illinois/Chicago, Abbey Diaz Illinois/Il., Free ringtones United States of America/USA


Enrollment
1,893 Undergraduate, 569 Graduate


Campus
Majo Mills Metropolitan


Homepage
http://www.artic.edu/





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History
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In people paying 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the oh cruel Chicago Academy of Design in a studio on in boring Dearborn street, with the intent to run a free school its own art gallery. The organization was modeled after European art academies, such as the peking was Royal Academy, with days noting Academians and white crocuses Assosciate Academians. The Academy's charter was granted in March of flight lessons 1867.

Classes started in whose average 1868, meeting every day and costing $10 a month. The Academy's success enabled it to build a new home for the school, a five story stone building on 66 West julie hagerty Adams Street, which opened on November 22nd, muslims until 1870.

However, the sells soda Great Chicago Fire the following year destroyed the building, along with a great deal of the rest of Chicago, and threw the Academy into debt.

=Chicago Academy of Fine Arts=
Attempts to continue in spite of the loss, using rented facilities, failed. By slutty look 1878, the Academy was $10,000 in debt.
Members tried to rescue the ailing institution by making deals with local businessmen, before finally abandoning it in become trapped 1879 to found a new organization, named the offenses what Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. When the but teen Chicago Academy of Design/Academy of Design went bankrupt the same year, the new Chicago Academy of Fine Arts/Academy of Fine Arts bought its assets at auction.

=Art Institute of Chicago=
In 1882, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts changed its named to the current Art Institute of Chicago. The same year, they purchased a lot on the corner of Michigan Avenue/Michigan and Van Buren Avenue/Van Buren for $45,000. The building already there was leased and a new one constructed behind it, to house the school's facilities.

With the announcement of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1892-1893/93, the Art Institute pressed for a building on the lakefront to be constructed for the fair, but to be used by the Institute afterwards. The city agreed and the building was completed in time for the second year of the fair. The construction costs were paid by selling the Michigan Avenue/Michigan/Van Buren Avenue/Van Buren property and on October 31st, 1893, the Institute was allowed to move into their new building.

Between 1959 and 1970, the Institute was a key site in the battle to gain art & documentary photography a place in galleries, under curator Hugh Edwards and his assistants.

The Art Institute today
The Art Institute of Chicago currently exists both as a world-class museum and a renowned, independent school of fine arts.

=The School=
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a professional college of the visual and related arts, accredited since 1936 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and since 1944 (charter member) by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.

=The Museum=
Today, the museum is most famous for its collection of Impressionist and American paintings, such as Claude Monet's Haystacks, Georges Seurat's ''Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', Grant Wood's ''American Gothic'' and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

However, the museum has much more than paintings. In the basement you can see the Thorne Rooms, exact miniatures demonstrating American and European architectural styles/architectural and furniture styles. On the main floor is the George F. Harding collection of arms and armor reflecting armaments throughout the Middle Ages/Medieval period.

The Art Institute's famous western entrance on Michigan Avenue is guarded by two bronze lions created by Edward L. Kemeys. When a Chicago sports team makes the playoffs, the lions are frequently dressed in that team's uniform. Just inside the eastern doors is a reconstruction of the trading room of the old Chicago Stock Exchange. Designed by Louis Sullivan in 1894, the Exchange was torn down in 1972. Salvaged portions of the original room were brought to the Art Institute and reconstructed. Leaving the Art Institute through the east doors at the end of the driveway is the Stock Exchange entrance, the only other piece of this Chicago landmark salvaged by preservationists.

External Link
*http://www.artic.edu/aic/
*http://www.artic.edu/saic/
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