Metropolitan Museum of Art

August 2, 2009September 17, 2009

Francis Bacon at the MET

The first major exhibition in New York in 20 years devoted to one of the most important painters of the twentieth-century, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective will feature 130 works (65 paintings and 65 archival items) that span the entirety of the artist’s full and celebrated career.

May 20, 2009–August 16, 2009 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

update (aug.2): I saw the show today….. a must see. Absolutely loved it. My favorite were his portraits from the 1960’s, particularly “Three studies for a portrait of George Dyer” from 1963 (below).

Study for head of George Dyer, 1967.

June 14, 2009

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

I hopped around a few museums yesterday and stopped by the MET to check out ‘The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion’ exhibit.

I liked the visual chronological history of fashion and it’s models. I personally payed more attention to the photography and its progression, but there was a bit of everything in this exhibit. If fashion is your life, this will be a nice little walk through. The exhibit will be up until August 9th.

February 8, 2009February 12, 2009

the met always amazes me

I’ve been to the MET a bunch…and today, I stumbled into a section I have NEVER seen before. How is that possible… maybe because I usually turn around after egyptian artifact overload…this time I kept walking and found myself at the American Wing. There was beautiful furniture, with a lot of american indian influence. Some was a bit gaudy, but pretty beautiful nonetheless.

I also paid a little more attention to some paintings that I’m sure have been there for longer than I’ve been around… And I found the one below to be extremely romantic… But maybe I’m just being ultra sappy… either way, it was a wonderful & surprising day at the MET.

by Jean-Leon Gerome

May 28, 2008May 28, 2008

A day at the MET

Spent the day yesterday walking the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 81st and 5th Ave. Its been over 10 years since my last visit (god I feel old), and I forgot how HUGE that museum is. I tried to go through the whole thing, but it must be about a weeks worth of walking….So pretty much just walked around and stumbled into places and eras that seemed interesting.

Loved the Victorian rooms:

Saw plenty of sculptures and paintings. Saw my favorite painters and also took detail pictures of their brushwork. Painters such as Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne really get me in the mood to paint. I love their colors, the richness of the paint, the brushwork and subject matters. I adore the tropical still-lifes and landscapes. They remind me of Venezuela and my godmother, who’s first oil paint lesson for me was a mango still-life on her backporch over-looking the Maracaibo Lake.

Detail of Van Gogh’s ‘Shoes’ 1888

Also swung by the SUPERHEROES exhibit, which was surprisingly small and overly hyped for what it is..as well as the Jeff Koons sculptures on the Rooftop garden. the view was great…the sculptures… meh. I did get a kick of the reflections.

I love the MET. one of my favorites. So much history and so much art. I need a free week to walk it all.