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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the biggest museum in the U.S and among the
leading in the world. The museum keeps a variety of artistic collection from all over the world
ranging from prints and drawings, European paintings, sculptures and decorative art. The modern
art compilation occupies a substantial gallery space in the museum, and some of the notable
masterpieces are Picasso’s portraits and paintings1. Contemporary art also forms part of the art
collection and has drifted to other departments within the museum particularly European and
American wing.
MET has also acquired artifacts and ancient art from the Asia, Africa and Europe. The
Asian department contains a lot Asian art collection and presents a rich Asian ancient culture and
civilization. Variety of costumes and accessories dating back to 1700 can be found at the
Costume Institute Complex of the Museum. The American wing provides guests with record of
the American art from 20th century to ancient time. The MET's compilation of medieval art has a
complete array of Western art since the 4th all the way through the early 16th centuries, as well
as pre-medieval European relics not incorporated in the Greek collection and Ancient Roman
art. Medieval assortment contains a wide range of art, with spiritual items from Islamic religion
greatly represented.
The metropolitan Museum of Art frequently hosts remarkable unique exhibitions, which
focus on the works of various artists. These exhibitions are among the attraction that brings
public to discover the museum2. These exhibitions comprise illustration particularly designed for
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Tompkins, Calvin, Merchants & Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,, Henry Holt and
Company, New York, 2015
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Danziger, Danny. Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Viking, New-York City, 2007
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the Costume department, works from artists from across the globe, paintings related to definite
art periods and movements, and compilation of past artifacts. Every division in the museum
preserves a library and various materials can be asked for online through the library catalog.
Classical art in MET has been communicated through sculptures and paintings, notably
from ancient Greek. There are stunning art collections that a person can spent a lot of time
staring at since they’re visually appealing3. In the both modern and classical art, there are
qualities in the collections which are inherently beautiful, sometimes instilling an irresistible
sense of beauty in a person, and eliciting emotions. Both classical and modern Art available in
MET has been created to appreciate beauty It can also be noted that there are elements of
civilization, reflecting social and cultural substrates in the art, to convey values and ideas
inherent across period and cultures.
The element of beauty is has therefore been created by the ingenious impulses of the
artists, and the patterns themselves are beautiful, full of texture and color .a look at the paintings
of lady Lilith, and dune landscape with oak tree by van Ruisdael clearly portrays beauty and
ingenious of the classical artists. Modern art collections like the sunrise painting by Claude
Monet presents beautifully illustrated intuitions of what he probably observed throughout the
sunrise. The nature of modern art and classical paintings in MET conveys the subject of beauty
in their own distinctive ways and approaches4.
However, there are remarkable differences in both modern and classic art collection,
essentially on the representative of the periods. With both classical and modern artists exhibiting
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Jones Jonathan, When did modern art become so reluctant to embrace beauty?The Guardian, 2012
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Howe, Winifred E., and Henry Watson Kent, A History of art and beauty. V(1) General Books,Memphis, 2009
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an evolving set of ideas, beauty differs amid a number in the paintings and portraits. Both artists
collectively and individually displayed different approaches in their art5. Beauty also differs
within the parameters of the drawings or paintings with classical art using traditional medium
such as oil paints, modern art has considerably been altered and artist painting from their
imaginations and projecting their masterpieces into their own illustrations and visual space
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Trask, Jeffrey Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era, , University of
Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia,2012
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Bibliography
Danziger, Danny. Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Viking, New-York City, 2007
Howe, Winifred E., and Henry Watson Kent, A History of art and beauty. V(1) General
Books,Memphis, 2009
Jones Jonathan, When did modern art become so reluctant to embrace beauty?The Guardian,
2012
Trask, Jeffrey Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era, ,
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia,2012
Tompkins, Calvin, Merchants & Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2015