Metropolitan Museum of Art

Los Angeles “The Town of The Queen of Angels” was the name of Los Angeles in the late 1700’s. The city of Los Angeles is very big and has lots of pretty places and lots of things. Los Angeles has many landscapes, mountains, sports and places to go. Most people move to Los Angeles if they become successful in sports, music, writing, or singing because Los Angeles is an entertaining place with lots to do. Los Angeles was not always called “The City of Angels”(Hively). Los Angeles was called “El…

in the modern arts. His ability of to change and adapt to new trends in his time and even create new styles, made him one of the most famous artist of the 20th century. The influence of his work of art is every where, when you know how to find it. Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881, where now there is a museum in his honor located in “Palacio de Buena Vista”, a beautiful palace from the 16th century (www.red2000.com/spain). He was born with a natural talent for arts and he…

Ben White Screen Printing Fall 2016 Rob Smith Chuck Close: Innovations in Print For more than three decades, Chuck Close has delved into the art of printmaking in his continuing exploration of the principles of perception. His exhibition, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, is the first comprehensive view of Close's involvement and accomplishment with a large variety of forms and printmaking processes. It features approximately one hundred works dated from 1972 to 2002, Chuck Close…

Jesse Aylsworth Research Paper RELS 313 April 18, 2016 In Tibet, art and religion are connected on many levels, images are not purely aesthetic, instead art operates on a deeper, spiritual and cultural level, which can be applied to almost every part of traditional Tibetan life, Tibetan thangka paintings, from process, creation and ultimately the final sacred image, aid in devotional religious activity for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners and helps preserve the tradition. There are…

When I first got into art I was in 10th grade. There was an exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery featuring Brooklyn street artist work; KAWS and I wanted to check his work in person because I never got the chance to. The exhibition featured his famous statues, “ALONG THE WAY” and paintings he’s done. KAWS is known for his whimsical cartoonish style of art. KAW is also affiliated in the street wear world after he launched his clothing label, Original Fake. He recently had his “ALONG THE WAY”…

On December 9th, 2016, I visited the Egyptian Section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, I discovered many ancient Egyptian artworks and artifacts, ranging in date from the Paleolithic era all the way to 4th century A.D- with special focus on the Middle and New Kingdoms. Two of the biggest and most memorable artworks were the Tomb of Perneb, and the Temple of Dendur. The Egyptian collection depicted what life was like in Ancient Egypt- what the people chose to engrave onto stone, what…

others also use art to connect with the viewer. J.…

protagonist, a 13 year old boy, Theodore Decker. In this novel Theo describes his anxiety ridden life as he tries to protect himself from the consequences of his actions. The opening of the goldfinch is absolutely captivating. Crafted like a fine art Donna combined a blend of striking imagery and remarkable foreboding. The opening reads “While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.” By building a sense of both suspense and sympathy towards the main…

Tapestries are a source of continual fascination to contemporary audiences. Something about these gothic textiles is evocative of a magic of bygone eras. One of the most romantic and most iconic examples of this is The Unicorn in Captivity. The enormous hanging is over 8”x12” and is stunningly detailed throughout. The woven, not embroidered, scene illustrates fantastical beasts and animals whose nature has frustrated historians for generations. Some argue that the work is a product of the…

‘Ephemeral… fugitive… contingent’: these words written by Charles Baudelaire in 1863 express the very nature of metropolitan life in the late nineteenth century. Urban renewal across Europe had given way to a new, fast-paced way of life, and nowhere was this more evident than in Paris: the then cultural centre of the western world. Crowds of people would converge upon Haussmann’s wide boulevards, swiftly navigating through the city to see and be seen by their fellow Parisians. Painting en plein…