The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

The very first time I ever went to an art museum, I was miserable. I was ten years old, and visiting New York City for the first time, and my father who has worked tirelessly to raise my siblings and me to have an appreciation for higher culture dragged us to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I cried within fifteen minutes of being there. All the people made me feel claustrophobic, and I was so set in my misery that I refused to try to enjoy the art. My mother, with all the patience that mothers are gifted with, took me through the museum. She entertained me with stories of when her and my father first fell in love in the city; rushed lunch dates in the museum, the halfway point between his job and her school. Gradually, we moved away from the more heavily populated galleries, and then it happened.

John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, Italy in 1849. He painted figurative and narrative pictures primarily in oil. He was interested and found inspiration in stories and legends from British literature and Classical mythology. His

Martin Heade was born in 1819 in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, so first and foremost it is important to recognize that he was an American painter. Around 1857, when he was 36, Heade became interested in landscape painting and afterwards, moved to New York City and took a studio in a building that housed many of the famous Hudson River School

Al Agnew painted this painting with oil based paint on canvas. The painting was done in the early 2000s. Al Agnew is a devoted outdoorsman; he grew up in Missouri in the Ozark Mountains. He grew up hunting and fishing and really learning to appreciate nature and all it has to offer. According to HYPERLINK "http://www.alagnew.com" www.alagnew.com, this is one of his many original nature exposure works. He has painted on canvas as seen here but he also has a t shirt company in which he exposes his paintings through clothing directed to the other outdoorsmen of the world. Al Agnews’ work with this one was right on the money with all the qualities of a true work of naturalistic

After being a drill sergeant in Alaska for twenty years he was inspired by the landscape and wanted to start painting what he saw. At first he started painting on pots and stuff like that and sell them for money. But later on he started painting on canvases. PBS saw what potential he had and gave him a show. He also gave lessons and sold art supplies.

The Museum of Fine Arts, located in St. Petersburg, Florida holds a variety of artworks that depict a specific period in human development and cultural aspects. The variety was very helpful and the process to narrow down the search of a painting of my choice became less difficult. The painting that I choose was made by an American artist named Stuart Davis Untitled (Black and White Variation on Windshield Mirror). Davis’s painting was extremely peculiar and I wanted to further examine its properties. The Untitled has three characteristics that are unique: Davis’s background for creating the painting, understanding the types of lines used, and the choice of color schemes.

Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836. One of the people who inspired Homer was his mother. She was an amateur painter and was his first teacher. Homer first job was working for a commercial lithographer. After about two years he was offered a job for Harper’s Weekly but he turned down the job. Homer opened his own studio in New York City. For a short amount of time he had classes at the National Academy of Design, and studied with Frederic Rondel. Homer began creating great oil works with only a year of self-training. Homer’s mother tried to raise money for him to go to Europe to further study, but this did not happen. Instead Harper’s sent him to the American Civil War, where he would go on to sketch mostly everyday camp life and also battle scenes.

The trip form the MET (Metropolitan museum of art) was really interesting, with the view of so many galleries from high renaissance, baroque, romanticism or impressionism; from many expose of different artist and times. I see the evolution of arts through times from 1400-1890 different facet of life have had been translate. Through painting from Indian time where I see what is like in early American life, pass ancient Egypt of mosque and pyramid, and overlook of what happen before and even what happing now the Met did give me a real look of the essence of arts.

Winslow Homer was born in 1836, in Boston, Massachusetts. He and his family lived close to a sea, and his father was the owner of a company that bought and sold goods from ships that traveled across the sea. This might of been what inspired Winslow's many sea and boat paintings. While growing up, Winslow became very interested

A self taught artist, thrived throughout his years as an artist. Beginning as a wood carver for a local business, he quickly learned about his passion for art. Shortly after starting his career in wood carving, he family made a move to Ohio. In Ohio, he worked with his father designing and manufacturing wallpaper. As his passion for this ran dry, he was told by another artist to began painting. He focused on self portraits and genre paintings. This artist name is Thomas Cole.

Frederic Edwin Church is a famous American landscape painter. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut on May 4, 1826 to Eliza and Joseph Church. The family was quite wealthy due to his father, joseph. This allowed Church to pursue his passion of art. He was able to network with other artists and eventually became Thomas Cole’s student. Church Shadowed Cole, following him to go sketch often in the Catskill Mountains and the Berkshires of Massachusetts. He quickly had a reputation in New York and from this moment, he career grew. His paintings are now being showcased in many museums. After living a long life of fame as an artist, he passed away from illness on April 7, 1900.

The painting is called “Guitar Hero” and it was created by W. Michael Bush, an artist that was born in Indiana, but resides in Bell Buckle. “Guitar Hero” is a painting that centralizes a musician and surrounds him with a crowd at his feet. It includes a combination of warm and cool colors mostly being

Richard thinks Vermeer might have made the Girl in Hyacinth Blue between 1665 and 1668. The person who took him to see the painting, Cornelius Engelbercht says “it’s a Vermeer.”

This painting was painted by no one other than Claude Oscar Monet. Claude was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840 and lived and a long successful life all the way until December 5, 1926. Claude was baptized in a local church in Paris, then his parents and himself moved to Le Havre, Normandy. His dad

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was an American artist and member of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first of the Hudson River Artist’s to paint beyond New York and see the unexplored west. Bierstadt’s paintings focused more upon the sublime in nature. His painting titled “Indian Summer Hudson River” was completed in 1861. It is an oil on canvas painting, which measures twenty-four inches in height by forty-one inches wide.