Experience the Joys of Visiting Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The purpose of this assignment is to experience the joys of visiting a museum and the discipline of analyzing a work of art formalistically. This is not a research paper. You may use the textbook to aid you in your analysis. From the book you will be able to discuss the historical and geographical context (when applicable) as well as the stylistic and technical aspects. Your analysis ( techniques) will be drawn primarily from your own observations based on the format of a formalistic analysis. Use the Bible, mythology, or other general sources to aid you. If you use other sources for an analysis or interpretations please footnote it in the text. What do you think the artists (or artists) were trying to say. How did it reflect the period and the civilization?
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A visit to a museum of art presents a momentous opportunity to come into contact with all the artistic precipices that have just been viewed through electronic sources. The fun of it all is when the museum is well equipped with numerous works of art from almost all the global cultures. A visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ticks all these boxes. It is the largest in the United States and among one with the largest collection of artistic masterpieces. Among these most famous pieces in this museum, is the Venus and Adonis done by Paul Rubens Peter in the mid or late 1630s.
This masterpiece by Rubens was a very important one in the baroque era. It embodies a mythology that speaks of love and disaster. It pits Cupid, two lovers, Venus and Adonis, together...
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