Metropolitan Museum Report

Last couple weeks ago, I had an opportunity to visit the de Young museum in San Francisco. The fine arts museum was designed by Fong Chan, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron. It is located in the center of an urban park and appears with a natural setting. The museum is the collection of American arts from Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas. It showcases diverse artworks including paintings, costumes, sculptures from 17th century through the 21st century. The national works of art are the essential source for cultural study and research. There are so many incredible and artistic paintings and decorative materials in the museum. But I have come to finalize the three paintings that I will discuss and compare with including Dinner for Threshers

Among the many artworks I have seen, I decided to discuss about the “Sarcophagus Depicting a Battle between Soldiers and Amazons (Warrior Women)” from the Roman civilization. It was built sometime in between 140 A.D. to 170 A.D and is approximately forty and a half inches in length, ninety-one and a half inches in width, and fifty and a half inches tall in height (“Roman Sarcophagus”). This masterpiece appealed to me because of the unique approach that has been designed to honor the deceased. Many people are familiar with the formatting and inscriptions of a gravestone because it is usually engraved with an individual’s full name, birth date, and death date. During the Roman Empire, a sarcophagus, which is a coffin, was widely used to show decorative themes that includes: battle scenes, hunting scenes, weddings, or other memorable episodes from the life of the deceased individual. The most luxurious ones were made from marble surrounded by symbolic sculptures, figures and inscriptions on all four sides (“Sarcophagus”). Another feature that captured my attention was the large quantity of details used to bring out a lifelike aspect of the deceased individual’s favorable moments in their life. In this artwork, this sarcophagus was dedicated to a Roman commander. The exterior of the sarcophagus has been well-decorated and carved with exquisite details depicting a battle scene

I went to LACMA, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art with my eldest sister and my little three-year-old sister. Since we went with a toddler I wasn’t able to see all the exhibits and galleries due to my little sister being impatient and having an impulse of wanting to touch everything. The first exhibit we looked at was the Art of The Pacific that their art goes back to the 18th century from Hawaiian, Polynesian, and Melanesia. They have different objects that were used for example; they had a stool, feeding funnel and a female figure. The stool was used for cooking and made out of wood and fiber. The feeding funnel comes from New Zealand and the Mahaki tribes of it are made out of wood and Haliotis shell. The layout for this exhibit was simple

Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) has in its collection a very valuable piece – an Athenian neck-amphora produced in c. 550 – 500 BC. The vase was executed in the black-figure technique, and it is attributed to Antimenes Painter. The amphora is richly decorated. One part represents Herakles and the lion between Iolaos holding club and Athena with Boeotian shield. The other part features Dionysos standing with satyrs and maenads. I like the amphora very much, especially its decoration and an interesting subject matter.

In the metropolitan museum I had a great time and got a lot of knowledge. First, the visit was great as I personally need it as a break from school and finals. Seconded, I did not visit the museum almost for four years. Even though I been there in 2011 but I got hard time to find what I am looking for but the worker were really helpful with the direction. I actually started by the Gallery of Mughal South Asia and Later South Asia that painting of (Black Stork in a Landscape) looked at 464. I found the paninting interested because I came from a village and I used to see Black Stork a lot in the fields. In Egypt we call him the farmer friend as he eats the bad warms that may affect the farmer’s crop. I love the color of the painting as it was black, gray, white, , dark brown, light green that is represent the crop. As the painter used water color to address the painting and to show the Indian geography in the back ground. In addition the painting from the South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1800–1900 A.D. the Painting was in the medial size according to the note that was besides the painting it was H. 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm) W. 29 3/4in. (75.6cm) Mat: H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm) W. 27

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. The main Neoclassical architectural style building is located on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York City, New York. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. It was founded in 1870 with a mission to collect, preserve, and display works of art. In 1866 a group of Americans gathered at a restaurant to celebrate the Fourth of July. After dinner, John Jay, a prominent lawyer gave a speech proposing that he and his compatriots decided to create a “national institution and gallery of art.” In the next four years, they convinced American civic leaders, art collectors, and philanthropists to support the project, and finally in 1870 the Metropolitan Museum of Art was incorporated. During the 1870s the museum was housed in two different locations in New York City, first in a building at 681 Fifth Avenue and later at 128 West 14th Street. In 1880 the museum moved to its present location in Central Park on Fifth Avenue between 80th and 84th Streets. The museum moved to this land to make a permanent home for the collections. This original Gothic Revival-style brick building, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold, was opened to

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,otherwise known as 'The Met' is very well known for it's wide variety art, it being the largest art museum in the United States and one of the most popular art museums in the world. Since 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been acquiring numerous forms of art for the world to see. It currently holds more than a million works throughout it's seventeen departments, but it all started with a Roman marble sarcophagus-the first ever object acquired. Throughout the museum's history, it has been through renovations in order to include more things from past; several galleries have been opened overtime devoted to certain cultures. In the museum visitors can expect to see pieces of history from all around the world.

BY MANY MEASURES, the museum world today seems sexier and more successful than ever. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in June that its annual attendance had topped 6 million for the third year in a row, its highest levels on record. In the Boston area, institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Peabody Essex Museum have opened sleek NEW additions or entirely NEW buildings designed by big-name architects. The Museum of Fine Arts recently opened a glamorous new American wing to great fanfare.

I recently read your reaction to the new Getty Museum. I found that your opinions about J. Paul Getty’s museum align with my thoughts about the museum. You said the outer aesthetics of the museum provide people with a “heated art controversy.” You said that a museum must not portray a non-neutral or partial nature between the museum’s looks and its content. My perception of the museum falls under the relation between a statue and its pedestal. Most people observe and admire statues that sit atop a simple, uniform pedestal. But, when the pedestal receives a makeover making it highly glorified, the spotlight slightly shifts from the statue onto the pedestal. People don’t lose complete sight of the statue, but people still appreciate and admire

On both July 3 and July 6, 2015, I visited the Children's Museum of Lake Charles. With it being a holiday weekend, the museum was very busy. The children that I observed ranged in age from two to about fourteen with the majority being between the ages of four and eight. There was a wide range of diversity observed during my visit, as there were Asians, Caucasians, African Americans, and Coushatta Indians. There were many visitors from Texas, especially Houston. The art room was very popular because the children were painting flags for Independence Day. Some of the children were focused on their art and wanted to make sure their project was completed to the best of their ability. Others were trying to finish in a hurry to move on to other

I visited the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM). I have not visited a museum since 2009 with my children’s kindergarten class. This was a different experience because; the last tour was at the Van Andel Museum which has different type of art.

This summer, the Smithsonian museum has appointed me to travel through history in their time machine to collect six artifacts for their latest exhibit, The History of Communication Technology. All of the artifacts need to be able to fit into one backpack, and reflect the time and place the object was from. The technology of communication represents the change as well as the continuity of how cultural ideas spread from one person to another throughout history. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to travel in a time machine to learn about the past of communication technology.

The VMFA stores a diverse selection from many periods, from the awe inspiring and dramatic works of the Mughal Empire to the ecclesiastical leaded glass windows of the famous Louis Tiffany. I have always had a passion for the arts and thrived on the atmosphere of the museum.I have many fond memories from my summer interning in the Education Department with Jessica Bauserman. As a “Teen Tern,” I and three other students were chosen from a plethora of applicants that had been enrolled in the Museum Leaders in Training Program. In that program I was able to gain valuable skills such as proposal writing, event planning, time management, and become proficient with VMFA library resources. In order to learn proper editing for an upcoming microsite I was able to research a piece of art, Our Lady of Piety, which opened my eyes to the broad scope of European history that wasn’t confined to Europe and satisfied my interest in art.

If you have time to view one gallery of paintings at the St. Louis Art Museum if you’re in St. Louis, the collection of European Art should be your only choice. European Art consists of varieties of paintings, sculptures, textiles, and metalwork made in Europe and parts of the British Isles between the 7th and 18th centuries. Early records of European Art came from the Ancient Middle East around 3000 BC, where art forms from the Ancient Middle East began to become abundant in Europe. As artistic development was made, different cultures would adopt their own forms of it and cause it to spread to most of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Eventually, as time went on, art would change, vary and types of it would flourish, depending on what was going on in society. It’s very rare

The sculpture made of marble at the length of 7 ft (2.13m), is known as Married Couple (Larth Tetnies and Thanchvil Tarnai) Embracing dated during 350-300 BCE. The marble sculpture is actually a lid of a sarcophagus shaped like a bed displaying a man and a woman laying on their side beside each other. The artist smoothly carved part of the marble to purposely show a bed-like sheet on the man and woman and carved two pillows seen underneath the couple’s heads. The main focus point or subject of the sculpture is the couple as they are clearly shown in the center beside each other, looking into each other eyes, and their arms reaching to touch each other as if they were about to hug. The couple are shown to be wearing nothing but jewelry, the