I noticed that a lot of the pieces in the collection used neutral colors and dark blues. Many of the pieces also contained very intricate designs and patterns. A lot of different forms of texture were used. I found that there was a lot of tapestry involved in the exhibit. Early on in the exhibit, the faces of the statues were very poorly developed. These faces resembled something I would have drawn in the second grade. There were multiple paintings throughout the exhibit that seemed to tell a complicated story.
The beginning of The Arabian Nights by Daniel Heller-Roazen is full of many different short stories. This is similar to the paintings in the exhibit in the MET because many of the paintings in that exhibit seemed to tell a short story. Animals seem to come up a lot in what I read so far of The Arabian Nights which also seemed to appear a lot in the exhibit. There were a lot of statues of little birds in the exhibit as well as making an appearance in the various paintings.