Friday, March 9, 2012


The virtual online museum visit  The metropolitan museum of art is a very interesting place to visit on website.   There are a lot of galleries to visit:

The American wing, Ancient near eastern art, Arms and armor, Asian Art,The Cloasters,The Costume institute, Drawing and prints Modern and Contemporary Art
The one that I am most drawn to is Modern and Contemporary Art gallery:
The Metropolitan Museum has collected and exhibited work by living artists since its founding in 1870. Today, the department's holdings comprise more than twelve thousand works of art across a broad range of media from 1900 to the present

Using my favorite artist Pablo Picasso Standing Female was a highly abstract charcoal drawing of a standing female nude, although reduced to series of lines and semicircle, without any semblance of three-dimensional form. His famous remark about women being "goddesses or doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but a woman tended to walk into both roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was legendary. Whole cultural industries derived from his much mythologized virility. He was the Minotaur in a canvas-and-paper labyrinth of his own construction.

Another is a Head of a Women this painting context was the irreverence fostered by Picasso’s Surrealist friends, but the subject is his deteriorating marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Kokhlova.

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