Question

write a short note on national art.

Answer 1

National Gallery of Art

This article is about the United States art museum. For other national art galleries, see List of national galleries.

The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
National Gallery of Art





Location in Washington, D.C.

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Established1937LocationNational Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20565, National Mall, Washington, D.C.Coordinates38.89147°N 77.02001°WVisitors5,232,277 (2017) - Ranked seventh globally [1]DirectorEarl A. Powell IIIPublic transit access

Metro: **

  Red Line

Judiciary Square**

  Yellow Line

  Green Line

Archives **

  Blue Line

  Orange Line

  Silver Line

Smithsonian* Metrobus: 4th Street and 7th Street NW* DC Circulator: 4th Street and Madison Drive; 9th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Websitewww.nga.gov
The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building, designed by I. M. Pei, and the 6.1-acre (25,000 m2) Sculpture Garden. The Gallery often presents temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art. it is the one of the largest museum in America.

Answer 2

 National Art Honor Society was established in 1978 in the United States by the National Art Education Association for high school students grades 9-12 from the National Art Honor Society.[1]The NAEA also offers a National Junior Art Honor Society for students in grades 6-8.

Its purpose is to assist student members to attain their highest potential in all forms of art, and to raise awareness of art education throughout the school and community.

Member students are eligible to apply to the Charles M. Robertson Memorial Scholarship, a special four-year scholarship to the Pratt Institute's School of Art and Design in New York.

Members and their school art program are eligible for several awards and grant programs, encouraged to submit articles and art work for publication in the NAHS News, published twice a year and is received by students as well as sponsors. Students and their sponsors can attend the group's annual convention and receive professional publications for inclusion into the school's resource library.