Do you know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a “pay as you wish” organization? Basically,if you buy tickets at a museum ticket counter, the amount you pay is up to you.
I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 28th with my Art History class to see some of the Ancient Greek and Egyptian arts we’ve been speaking about in class, up close and personal. It made a huge difference seeing these arts that were projected on the powerpoint, and being able to see what had been discussed in class. I realized that if I have an art test coming up, I could simply study by going to the museum.
One of my favorite paintings was The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur. This painting is Bonheur’s best known painting. The painting shows the horse market held in Paris. For a year and a half Bonheur sketched there twice a week, dressing as a man to discourage attention. This painting reminded of Mulan; simply because of thefact that the artist had to dress like a man to be able to create this painting that received wide praise when it debuted at the Paris Salon of 1853. I wonder how much her work would’ve been impacted if she hadn’t dressed like a man. I also fell in love with another painting, it is called Hagar in the Wilderness by Camille Corot. In this painting, it looks like a woman is praying to the heavens , crying for help because her son is unconscious. This woman is Hagar, a slave whom Abraham fathered a son Ishmael, with. Due to Abraham’s wife Sarah being elderly and barren. After Sarah bore her own son Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael were driven away into the desert of Beersheba. My art teacher explained that , there are two versions as to why Hagar was in the desert of Beersheba. The Christian and Islam version. While the Quran affirms that this was yet another test for Abraham,the Bible asserts that it was result of the rage of Sarah. If you look closely at the painting you can see an angel in the sky, coming to Hagar’s rescue.