Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The MET!

Hi Jerry and class! Last Thursday, 5/28, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. It was my first time and I was in complete awe of how expansive the museum was. There was actually a tour that started every 15 minutes... no waiting for me! I hopped off the tour to explore things for myself and definitely found the map one of the most useful things EVER! So much so, that I'm posting them...



I spent a good amount of time in the Hellenistic wing of the museum, which had many religous pieces. From what I read, this time period involved much religious art, specifically around the Olympic gods. Nude sculptures of goddesses were popular as well as other religious figure, such as the angel below:


The next picture below was of an artpiece by Salvatore that I thought was really cool. It wasn't exactly a picture, but it had so many elements of circles and strings and pictures that created a multi-dimensional piece. All these things combined made the piece almost holographic. And as I'm looking at my picture, it even looks like an ear at a certain angle, but it's really the Madonna!


I'll be talking about a Stephen Hannock piece in the paper that I'll attach soon. Looking forward to everyone else's postings!

-Jen

3 comments:

  1. Hi Jen... Great! What a good way to start the class... The Met is world class and gets you started on the right track! I'm looking forward to your posts here...

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  2. Jen, nice photos. I'm going to go to the Met next Sunday and I'm looking forward to it.

    On the subject of nude sculptures, when I was at the Yale Center for British Art, there were a couple of nude sculptures (Cleopatra is the only one whose name I can remember) and it said that these were originally for the private pleasures of men and were never intended for display purposes. I just thought that was interesting.

    Thanks for your post.

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  3. P.S. That DOES look like an ear...weird!

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