Name The Art
Help Us Name an Object
THE CONCEPT
The people who built this amazing collection never intended to create a world-class museum of fine art, but they wanted far more than an assembly of "hotel art." Multiple trips to Asia produced a mixture of vintage pieces dating as far back as 2000 years and pieces commissioned specially for the resort.
The Waikoloa Museum Walkway Experience takes this collection and uses it to tell stories about the pieces, making the visit to the Museum Walkway fun, memorable, and maybe a learning experience.
The Waikoloa Museum Walkway Experience takes this collection and uses it to tell stories about the pieces, making the visit to the Museum Walkway fun, memorable, and maybe a learning experience.
Marco
French sculptor Charles Valton made several versions of a Wire-haired Griffon dog, "Marco." Here, Marco is doing what he was trained to do - hunting birds. Griffons are "pointers," trained to stop and freeze, with one foot raised, his tail pointing straight behind and his nose and eyes facing the bird hidden in tall grass or brush. Today, more than 100 years after Valton created his sculpture, people can still see Marco's
NAMING RULES
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With those goals in mind, we thought one such experience might include guest participation in helping to name some of the objects on the Walkway. Many of the pieces already have names, of course: the Buddha, Guanyin, and paintings like Rosa Bonheur's "The Horse Fair." We also know the subject of many of the paintings on the walls, or Buddha's story on black enamel panels. But many others go unnamed, unidentified, or simply described, like Charles Valton's "Two King Charles Spaniels on a Pillows, there on the left
Well, no longer. Hilton has two of these sculptures, (only one is on display), and like their cousin Marco, our pups deserve names..
Well, no longer. Hilton has two of these sculptures, (only one is on display), and like their cousin Marco, our pups deserve names..
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