Visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
last Thursday was a blast. I really
enjoyed the experience and am so thankful for the opportunity! I definitely hope to return again some day
soon.
The sections of the museum that I most enjoyed were those
that showcased European paintings (especially the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
works). I both literally and
figuratively found myself lost in those particular galleries. I felt so privileged to have to chance to view
works by artists such as Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Seurat, and Toulouse-Lautrec. These are artists that I admire greatly and I
loved being able to view all of the details and brushstrokes up close, and in
person. Although I have viewed many
photographs of work by the above-mentioned artists, when in person, I felt as
though I was seeing them with new eyes.
It was as if I were finally seeing them as they were meant to be seen.
Also, I was so excited to have to chance to travel through
the “Regarding Warhol” exhibition! It is best described on The Met’s website: “Through approximately
forty-five works by Warhol alongside one hundred works by some sixty other
artists, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years juxtaposes prime
examples of Warhol's paintings, sculpture, and films with those by other
artists who in key ways reinterpret, respond, or react to his groundbreaking
work.”
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Below are some of the photographs that I took with my iPad that day J
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| Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a bird-man Greek, late 5th century B.C. |
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| Gold jewelry Greek, 6th-5th century B.C. |
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| Portrait of a Young Woman as a Vestal Virgin1767 Francois Hubert Drouais Oil on canvas |
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| Madame Grand (Noel Catherine Verlee, 1761-1835), Later Madame de Talleyrand Perigor, Princesse de Benevent 1783 Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Oil on canvas |
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| Madonna and Child Berlinghiero Tempera on wood, gold ground |
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| Still Life with Flowers and Fruit1629 Juan van der Hamen y Leon Oil on canvas |
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| St. Ives Bridge, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire 1895 William Fraser Garden Watercolor, pen and gray ink, touches of gouache, over graphite |
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| Works by Paul Siganc |
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| The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer 1922 Edgar Degas Bronze, partially tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon |
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| Works by Edouard Manet Pastel on canvas |
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| Jockey Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Pastel and gouache on paper |
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| House on Fire 1981 James Rosenquist Oil on canvas |
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