Metropolitan Museum Essay

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Walking into the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I found was very overwhelming. If the city had no other museum other than the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you could still occupy yourself for days roaming its labyrinthine corridors. Because the Metropolitan Museum has something approaching 3 million works on display over it’s more than 7 square miles, you're going to have to make some hard choices. Looking at everything could probably take a week. I’ve always had an interest in art, but never had a chance to visit art galleries and museums. Visiting the Metropolitan Museum was breath taking. The museum offered so many arrays of art works and exhibitions. From wall paintings and sculptures to rugs and pottery, the museum was anything but boring.…show more content…
The Bronze dancer unfolds her captivating beauty across space like a shadow, mysteriously concealing to the eye all but the bold outline of her curving silhouette. Her sculpted right arm appears organic under the tightly pulled cloth of her garments. Her left hand firmly pulls and gathers the fabric of her gown across her body creating a strong horizontal space. Her right arm gracefully bent at the elbow and sloping upward stretches across her shoulders framing her face and leading the eye through fluent lines that reveal the form of her breast, and create the draping folds of her veil. Her piercing eyes gaze seductively from beneath her forearm and give clues to the emotions that make up her…show more content…
However, the mimes, plays and poems in Hellenistic literature reveal, as does Hellenistic art, that women were considered individuals. Through the art we see the sexual attractiveness and passionate side of Hellenistic women portrayed quite differently from the courtesans of the fifth century vases. Art in the Hellenistic age seemed to express less interest in the all-male experience and more interest in the individual experience. The experiences and emotions of everyday people captivated Hellenistic artists. Varieties of people—old women, dwarves, children, and barbarians found expression in Hellenistic art. The Bronze Veiled and Masked Dancer was one of the famous statuaries of the Hellenistic
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