a trip to the MET
As a student of art history, going to a museum is the only way to fully experience a work of art. By only looking at a painting or sculpture in a book or on a slide, you cannot fully experience the work of art. By going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was able to look at paintings that dated from centuries old, to recent times. Bruges, The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve, 15th Century, Tempera on wood The Proto-Renaissance alter piece, The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve was done by the artist Bruges. This piece is very typical of its time period. The title alone, summarizes what art was in this period, religious. The painting itself is not proportionate, has no vanishing point, and the saints have a globe-like halo. All the faces look the same, if you walked down the street, you would not be able to pick out an individual model for this painting, because there probably was no modeling done. Raphael, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, 1504, oil on wood The! Raphael alter-piece, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, was painted in 1504. The surface is very smooth, you cannot see any brushstrokes. The figures are placed in a pyramid shape, with the Madonna's face as the center, and the viewer as the worm's
------------------------------------------------------------------------ here is no subject matter, except how the different colors are used. This painting is a picture of nothing. The artist uses gray, teal, lavender, pink, yellow, and blue to portray something that is not real. She wants the viewer to use the mind and imagination to make up their own composition. Gray Line with Lavender and Yellow helped break the idea that art had to be a painting of something. To fully experience a work of art, you must go see it in person. Studying them in class should not be the only time you see them. To be in a room that is filled with paintings by Raphael and Rembrandt is quite an experience that everyone at least once in their life should have a chance to do. tween 1615 and 1621. This extremely large painting has very soft colors. The painting is light and airy. To look at it, is like looking at a real scene through an early morning mist. This mood is created by the soft brushstrokes that are used. For example, in the horse's tail, you can see all the brushstrokes, which gives the hair depth. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1660, oil on canvas Rembrandt's Self-Portrait, done in 1660, creates a dark, unpleasant mood. Rembrandt looks worn out, tired, and very unhappy. All of his paintings in the museum portray this darkness. There is one light source that casts a gloomy shadow over everything, which in his Self-Portrait, tells the viewer, that at this point in his life, he was very u
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