Metropolitan Museum of Art

What Is True Beauty? What makes someone or something beautiful? One day while doing research in the library I came across an image that would forever change my aspect on art. It happened to be a sculpture of half a face, which belonged to a woman. Later on that day I did some research of my own and found out the name of that piece was entitled Fragment of the face of a queen. The sculpture spoke on so many things at once, that it was more than amazing. What made that creations hold so much…

Throughout the ages art has went through many fazes or styles, some styles undergo scrutiny from those styles that followed, others accepted and built onto that style to create art that will always be notable. One aspect that has been under the microscope is the naked human body and how those time periods viewed nudity. Eras like the Upper Paleolithic and Aegean saw the female naked body as a way to bring luck to women during childbearing and fertility. Other cultures like the Ancient Greek and…

paintings, and other works of art were crafted to honor Athena in her glorious liking. Atop a great plateau within Athens, Greece, laid the foundations of several architectural marvels. These expansive temples and administrative buildings made up what was known as the Akropolis of Athens. One such statue that resided among the structures was a Bronze statuette of Athena flying her owl.…

Tiziano Vecellio’s Madonna and Child, painted in Venice in about 1508 is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Titian was one of the greatest Venetian artist of the sixteenth century and was well known for his remarkable use of color and for his appealing renderings of the human form. He contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art which included painting allegories, portraits, mythologies, and pastoral landscapes with figures. The sacred figures in this painting are the Virgin…

by the byzantine emperors was that of “Iconoclasm”. The empire had a tradition of producing icons – paintings of Jesus and other religious personages (many of till this day are still considered were and still are magnificent works of art). This works of religious art works helped the populace imagination and encouraged reverence for the icons. The “emperor Leo the-III” saw a problem with this and thought the icons “violated the second commandment” and began the policy of “iconoclasm” “breaking…

to Naturalism When we hear the word evolution, the first thing that comes to mind is the abstract theory introduced by Charles Darwin, alike his theory the human form interpreted in art began as an abstract representation, however Greek sculpture embraced a naturalistic human form through the evolution of its art. Greek sculpture evolved through seven different artistic periods: Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Early Classical, High Classical, Late Classical, and Hellenistic periods.…

for producing narrative collection such as War series. He was a professor at the University of Washington for fifth teen years. After moving to Harlem with his mother Lawrence was shortly introduced to art when his mother enrolled him in Utopia Children’s center, which had an after school art program. At the age of sixteen Lawrence decided to drop…

man (fig.1). It is an oil painting on 23 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches or 59 x 72 centimeters canvas. As there is no confirmed date of completion it is presumed to have been completed circa 1825 and is currently in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and on their website. Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck is a somber yet awe inspiring piece that focuses on the raw power of nature that resembles that of the Romantic movement that occurred during the eighteenth…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses the display of the reliquary of the right arm of St. Valentine. This Medieval arm is a silver, sapphire and partial gilt piece of metal-work that was dated to the fourteenth century. It is a Swiss piece of artwork that was intended to house a relic. Reliquaries acted as caskets for greatly valued relics of influential individuals in society such as a religious figure or a saint. They are often an indication of what class or of what hierarchical standing a…

With one dramatic no, a major artist has just escalated the culture world’s war against Donald J. Trump. For more than 20 years, the artist Christo has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would draw thousands of tourists and rival the ambition of “The Gates,” the saffron transformation of Central Park that made him and Jeanne-Claude, his collaborator and wife, two of the most talked-about artists of their generation. But…