This was another workshop that I missed during club hours so to make it up I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a really though provoking experience because I never went there and I was suprised of the scale that the exhibitshad . The one of the first exhibits centered around Ancient Greece /Rome . What really stood out for me out of the exhibit was the battle armor that was used during the different wars during that time and the statutes that were scultped to idolize the famous people of that time. The Milk Maid exhibit which featured the paintings of Johannes Vermeer showed the painter’s use of lighting in his paintings and shades . The paintings looked very good but it was just different women in the same environment doing the same thing , so the interest wore off toward the end.The European Sculptures were probably my favorite and teh sculpture that stood out for me was called ” Ugolino and his Sons” . What really amazed me was the way that the sculpture articulated and the emotion of dread within Ugolino by his facial expression and the way that the bodies were articultaed to real people was amazing defiantly a work of art .
Aside from that the other exhibits didn’t really hold much of a candle to what I mentioned above . The Byzantinian exhibit mostly featured pots, dishes , little statutes nothing to big . The modern photography exhibit was something that I just didn’t get , for example there was a picture of a pieace of the road that ha dthe dimension of 8 by 6 feet ( my guess) . I started at it for a good 5 minutes and had no clue why it was up , other notable pictures looked like color pallettes from Home Depot. One painting which I found to be outstanding was called ” The Massacre of the Innocent” by Francois Joesph Navez , the way that the painter portrayed the massacre was mesmerizing and considering that the picture looks 3D form far away , makes it seem even cooler . Overall I would recommend anyone who has not been to the Metropolitan to visit it and experience it