Metropolitan Museum Of Art Visit

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Museums are sources of antique stuff. Actually, they have major anthropological, historical as well as archeological memorials that inform us about the prehistoric world. It also provides information with regard to the development of the world over the years and ways in which human beings together with animals survived in the historical times. The museum also has information about other things such as crafts and ancient art. With regard to this, the essay seeks to present a response to the class visit to the metropolitan museum of art and a description of the ceramic objects found in the museum.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the best kind of Asian art assortments that enabled me to acquire knowledge and strengthen my intellectual capacity in my personal experience with art. The museum itself has an artistic architectural construction which elegances the rest of the block on the 82nd street in Manhattan. When I entered the museum, I had a feeling of returning to a period in the ancient days when people exchanged ideologies and acquired knowledge from one another. It was a reflection of the past where I still found the works the olden days within my understanding. The past is to remain commemorated and shared as if the reflection of the works was in preparation for the modern-day dedicated learners just like us. The museum presented a wide assortment of sceneries as well as sights. The division of the museum is into different sections. One of the sections has masterworks of art and craft. The other section has sculptures, paintings and several varieties of embroidery as well as pottery.
The figure above represents a seated Inland Niger Delta. It is among the oldest sculptures from the western region of Africa coming from the region known as the Inland Delta of the Niger River. It is close to the present day home of the people who belong to the Dogon and Bamana ethnic groups. Now, by the center of the first millennium AD, the prehistoric city of Jenne-Jeno thrived as a center for art, trade as well as agriculture. All through this area artists prepared terracotta sculptures, which portray pictures wearing an assortment of outfits and the exhibition of a wide variety of signals. The figure above appears hunched with a seated posture shaved head and it is without ornaments for the remembrance of the grieving practices extensive in Africa. The rows of stamped symbols, as well as raised bosses on the back of the sculpture, might be a representation of deliberate scarification patterns or the signs of an illness. Such terracotta figures might have remained positioned on local platforms for dedication to protective or ancestral spirits.
196215047625 This representation of a seated figure is a white-slipped, hollow ceramic sculpture from the highlands of Mexico. It depicts a seated...