Metropolitan Museum of Art

ainting Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) by Marcel Duchamp is more thought-provoking and artistically relevant than Dorothea Tanning’s painting Birthday. These pieces were painted in different time periods, when different styles of art were common, but when the viewer considers the aesthetic qualities of the piece, the historical value and the ease of which one can draw an interpretation of the piece Duchamp’s is more thought-provoking. Though both pictures have compelling titles that…

violinist in the background, both painted to display their profession and the simple enjoyment they both had in it. Leyster paints herself as she wishes to be seen, wearing her somewhat formal attire with an extravagant lace collar, while holding her art brushes, painting the style of painting she is known for. This is not what an artist would have actually been painting in; it is much too fancy and would be hard to work in with the size of the collar. The clenching of paint brushes in…

Ramirez Professor Brown Art History 141 26 May 2015 Fowler Museum Project The Fowler Museum was an interesting experience. The name of the Exhibition is Intersections: World Arts/ Local Lives, the exhibition doesn’t have an ending. The name of the organizers and curators were not provided. The art is interesting for the facts that the people who made the art pieces put a lot of dedication and time in wanting to make them look great. The first section in the exhibition is the Art and Action…

On Sunday October 16th, my family and I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City. Although I am from New York, I had never visited the museum before and so I was extremely eager and excited. I was amazed as I pulled up to the entrance of the museum. It was enormous! The architecture of the museum was astonishing. With the help of one of the very kind curators, I was directed toward the Italian Renaissance exhibit. The Italian Renaissance was a period of great cultural…

Our two pieces to compare and contrast are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art the are: The Royal Acquaintances on Memi and Sabu and Statue of Gudea. Similarities between the two are: Their function, which is to represent the subjects as actual persons in the real life as well as in the afterlife. The Royal Acquaintances being used to supply a body for the dead to inhabit in the afterlife (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History The Royal Acquaintances of Memi and Sabu, 2016), and the Statue of…

INTRODUCTION: PUTTING THE ANCIENT ART OF GREEK INTO MODERN LIMELIGHT, This paper seeks to analyse the ancient art of Greek art and consequently interpret the same for modern day scholars. STYLISTIC ANALYSIS HYDRA WATER JAR The body of this elegant vessel was made of hammered bronze, it is unsual for its thin walls to have survived the intact over a period of 2500 years.Typically only the heavy cast bronze handles and foot survives. Hydra were a three handled vessel used to carry water. Bronze…

The Cameo with the Archangel Michael is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was created during the Byzantine culture in the late fourteenth century in Byzantium. The Byzantine Empire lasted from 330 A.D. to 1453 A.D. Historians do not know who made this piece of art or whom it was made for. As a result, we do not know who originally had possession of it. This cameo’s intended use was to deflect evil from whoever had possession of it. The pendant…

designing her dress for the Met Gala. The theme for the Met Gala this year is Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology. Vogue said it will “focus on the dichotomy between handmade haute couture and machine-made fashion,” because of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that will accompany the exhibition this year. Of course who can forget the dress she wore to the 2013 Met Gala that had many wondering if the material came off an old couch. According to a source, “Kim doesn’t want to do…

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Commemorative Mother and Child figure. Angola. 19th-20th Century. This piece of African artwork shares a lot of characteristics with the Getlein’s artwork Gwandusu. Bamana. 13th-15th century (Page 422). This maternity figure is an archetype of feminine beauty. Both of these artwork resemble a lot. Both of them are made of the same medium. They are made of wood sculptures made of wood, metal and pigments. Both of them have filed teeth, beaded adornments and…

¥ The temple is very similar to King Khafre’s mortuary temple. It has granite pillards that form a colonnade around a central courtyard. ¥ Senwosret III wore a pleated linen head cloth which was called a nemes headdress. It is surmounted by cobra, which represents the goddess Udjo, one of the protector’s of the king. ¥ It is symbolic of the God it represents. This sculpture qualifies as in the round because viewers can walk around it, it’s a free standing sculpture, and it is a…