Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition Critique Essay II Larah Davenport ART 200 (Corbin) October 29, 2015 For this project I visited multiple online museums, but decided on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Three pieces of artwork that I found to be interesting to me and that caught my eye are The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder found at http://www.metmuseum.org, Open Window, Collioure by Henri Matisse found at http://www.nga.gov, and

because it is my aspiration to work in the field of museum operations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is actually the museum I am most interested in working for, and its extensive internship program would help me sophisticate my skills and gain the experience I need to pursue what I want to pursue, which is a career in which history and art history can be conveyed to the public visually, like it is in museums. To be placed in one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's department areas would truly be a dream

is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. On April 13, 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was opened to the public. Located in New York City, it is the largest museum in the United States, with a collection of more than two million works of art, spread among seventeen departments. According to their website, “the Museum’s two-million-square-foot building houses over two million objects, tens of thousands of which are on view at any given time”. (The Metropolitian Museum of Art, 2000-2014)

The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art trip was amazing, I have the pleasure of seeing numerous art work that I have heard about. But going there give me a real taste of the struggle as well as the accomplishment of these artists like Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Fernand Leger and so much more. These paintings were the expression of the free liberty of their imagination where the artist did feel have the freedom to portrait anything that he was please to. But the

Sophomore year of High School we took a trip to New York to visit The Metropolitan Art Museum we spent the full day immersing ourselves in the artwork. It was the trip that would inspire me to become an artist. We arrived to this momentous building with lots of stairs I was eager to be off the bus and see what the museum held for us. We were greeted by our guide and we began our tour which would only be part of this magnificent day. It must have been one of the first things we came across and the

our very own Metropolitan Museum of Art located here in NYC. The ride from the space port to the Museum was a little over two hours and felt like forever. On the way there the Ambassador asked many questions about our clothes, food, money, and many of our everyday things that are around us. Then, out of nowhere he asked me a question that changed my life as an artist completely. He said, “In my planet we have clothes and money and everything that you humans have, but we do not have art. Can you please

For my museum paper I have chosen to analyze “The Death of Socrates” painting located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York. “The Death of Socrates” was a work during the Neoclassic period. Neoclassicism symbolizes clarity of form, sober colors, shallow space, strong horizontal and verticals. It is inspired by Greek and Roman styles. In the painting it shows these examples of Neoclassicism it has sober colors, shallow space with a raking light and, strong horizontal and verticals

pedestal is eighty-nine feet [confers X m] (Baker 319) high. Besides it is “another truncated pyramid of concrete, faced by granite” (317), which in no way affects the statue’s guise moreover it harmonizes with it. “Like the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the original impulse for the Statue of Liberty came

This paper will be describing and analyzing the African Art Galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The galleries that will be critiqued in this paper are 350, 351, and 352. Gallery 350 (Samuel H. and Linda M. Lindenbaum Gallery) is an averaged size rectangular room that spans about the length of a sidewalk. The gallery contains several carved wooden sculptures, primarily located in the center of the gallery that immediately take over upon entering. While most objects are not enclosed in cases

This work of art measures about 42 inches x 52 1/2 inches (“Venus and Adonis; Titian...”). The art was created using oil paint, a medium composed of pigments and varying types of vegetable oils, such as poppy, bear-seed, walnut, and linseed oils (Frank 122). The painting was done on stretched canvas, and thus it gives the painting a slight textured quality. The technique in which Titian painted this work accounts for the soft appearance of the colors. It can be observed that the paint is very well