The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This thread is for the Metropolitan Museum of Art experiences, not just my own. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the MET) is located in New York, NY, on 5 5th Ave and 82nd St, and it's been around for quite a while. I've been to the museum twice, the first visit a long time ago and the second visit today with my art class and professor. My assignment was pretty simple: compare and contrast two pieces of art from 1850 to present. I happen to like Chuck Close's works and use of pixelation, and was quite pleased to see his self-portrait at the MET, whereby I decided to use his work of art as part of my assignment. Here's the photo taken from my cellphone:
(If you look closely enough in the reflection, you'll see a person holding a sketchbook with one arm raised - that's me.)
I wandered around the modern art collection to get my assignment out of the way, and lo and behold, a painting of unusual quality caught my attention. It might seem like an ordinary landscape painting, but the painter Stephen Hannock subtly superimposed a collage of images from magazines or text. You can't make the words or pictures out, but here's a picture of his painting:
After obtaining my two pieces of artwork for my assignment, I wandered around quite a bit. Many artists like Georgia O'Keefe, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Cindy Sherman, Vermeer's Milkmaid series, and especially Damien Hirst's famous real shark in a tank piece are featured in the museum. Many other galleries existed, and visited the following galleries in no particular order with interest:
Modern Art
Greek and Roman Art
Arms and Armor
Asian Art - Japanese, Chinese, Southeast, Korean, South Asian
And another piece to note besides Damien Hirst's shark was another Modern Art piece of some really cool metal, and bunch of small, metal, congruent hexagons done in a large curved bowl:
And of course with modern art, there are certain pieces that make me wanna go, wtf, this shit is art? But all in all, I enjoyed my visit to museum and I hope others will too, or if any FAKKU! users have been to the MET, please share your experiences, feelings, and opinions of the trip and the works of art themselves.
Some FYIs:
- Don't go to the museum on a rainy day like today, because it gets friggin crowded like hell. It must've been over 10,000 ~ 20,000 visitors today.
- The food isn't particularly special and is expensive as shit.
- The fee to pay up front is OBLIGATORY. You don't have to pay the recommended fee as the sign says, but it is courteous to give something in return. I'm a student, so a student's recommended fee is $10, but I gave them $3 instead. Good enough.
- Go with a small group for discussion purposes and fun. Too big of a group and it's not fun any more; more like a tour guide.
(If you look closely enough in the reflection, you'll see a person holding a sketchbook with one arm raised - that's me.)
I wandered around the modern art collection to get my assignment out of the way, and lo and behold, a painting of unusual quality caught my attention. It might seem like an ordinary landscape painting, but the painter Stephen Hannock subtly superimposed a collage of images from magazines or text. You can't make the words or pictures out, but here's a picture of his painting:
After obtaining my two pieces of artwork for my assignment, I wandered around quite a bit. Many artists like Georgia O'Keefe, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Cindy Sherman, Vermeer's Milkmaid series, and especially Damien Hirst's famous real shark in a tank piece are featured in the museum. Many other galleries existed, and visited the following galleries in no particular order with interest:
Modern Art
Greek and Roman Art
Arms and Armor
Asian Art - Japanese, Chinese, Southeast, Korean, South Asian
And another piece to note besides Damien Hirst's shark was another Modern Art piece of some really cool metal, and bunch of small, metal, congruent hexagons done in a large curved bowl:
And of course with modern art, there are certain pieces that make me wanna go, wtf, this shit is art? But all in all, I enjoyed my visit to museum and I hope others will too, or if any FAKKU! users have been to the MET, please share your experiences, feelings, and opinions of the trip and the works of art themselves.
Some FYIs:
- Don't go to the museum on a rainy day like today, because it gets friggin crowded like hell. It must've been over 10,000 ~ 20,000 visitors today.
- The food isn't particularly special and is expensive as shit.
- The fee to pay up front is OBLIGATORY. You don't have to pay the recommended fee as the sign says, but it is courteous to give something in return. I'm a student, so a student's recommended fee is $10, but I gave them $3 instead. Good enough.
- Go with a small group for discussion purposes and fun. Too big of a group and it's not fun any more; more like a tour guide.
