Browse Exhibits (30 total)
A Moment With Monet
Take a moment to explore the work of Claude Monet, a French Impressionist artist who strived to depict scenes from specific moments in time. This exhibit will explore Monet's life, two of his famous artworks, his techniques, and his influences.
Athenian Pottery's Exploration of Death & History
The Dipylon Terracotta Krater, on display at the Met, was built by the Hirschfeld Workshop ca. 750 - 735 BCE in ancient Athens. The Krater deals with the theme of death through its celebration of war and its push to move on. The Krater is a manifestation of the decline of Geometric pottery, in that it advances Geometric artistic principles but challenges existing artistic conventions. It also unites Athenians within a shared military history.
Atomic Bomb, Crucified Christ: Dali's Nuclear Mysticism
Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 in Figueres, Spain and began making art at a young age. After studying in Madrid he eventually moved on to Paris where he became acquainted with Picasso, Magritte, and Miro. Though he worked with impressionist, futuristic, and cubist styles, Dalí is perhaps most known for his surrealist works. Though he was expelled from the surrealist movement, potentially for his fascist leanings, Dalí’s paintings continued to show surrealist themes. One such painting is his 1954 painting Corpus Hypercubus also known as Crucifixion. In this painting, Dalí unifies ideas of religion and science through the application of Nuclear Mysticism: the fusion of mathematics, science, and Catholicism.
Boccioni: To the Future and Beyond
Umberto Boccioni’s “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” (made in 1913*) has become a classic icon for the Italian Futurist movement for its motion, speed, and celebration of the modern world. “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” was Boccioni’s physical representation of combining dynamics and movement to portray “plastic dynamism,” one of his Futurist theories that he contributed. Plastic dynamism is the combination of an object's absolute motion, the movement that is inherent to the object itself, and its relative motion, the object’s motion affected by the environment.
*The plaster sculpture was made in 1913 and cast in bronze for the Metropolitan Museum in 1970.
Bruegel: A Watershed Moment for Landscapes
Breugel's The Harvesters was a watershed moment in the history of landscape paintings, as it marks one of the first times a landscape painting was done for the sake of looking at a landscape instead of being relegated to the backdrop of a different subject
Caravaggio's Innovation and Influence
Caravaggio’s work and unique methods have been revered as he pioneered a new use of detail, light, and drama that helped to define the Baroque style and influenced many artists after him. His naturalism is applauded as he possessed an innate ability to create dynamic and realistic compositions. This exhibit explores Caravaggio's dynamic career and the two techniques that had the largest influence on the art world.
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Antonello da Messina's Christ Crowned with Thorns, an oil on wood, finds it effectiveness in its union and thus amplification of traditionally disparate techniques. Among Renaissance portraiture, it is distinctive for its combination of Southern geometric rigor and application of light and color with Northern narrative detail and representation of physical space.
Among devotional images, it is distinctive for its most abiding feature, a deep humanity within this godly figure, deep within the eyes that indicate an inner psychological life.
Come Closer: Jan van Eyck's Use of Naturalism
"Come Closer" will explore the how and why of the microcosmic details in Jan van Eyck's New York Diptych. This exhibit will investigate this diptych's function as a devotional object, it will compare van Eyck's oil paintings to the art of the Italian Renaissance, and it will take a deep dive into the 'hidden symbols' of each panel.
Esther Before Ahasuerus: Artemisia in the Context of Historical Feminism
Known for her series of paintings of ancient and Biblical heroines, Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the only successful and recognized female artists of her time. Through a comparison of Artemisia Gentileschi's Esther Before Ahasuerus and Paolo Veronese's painting of the same scene, this exhibition seeks to highlight the new perspective and feminist ethos Artemisia added to a famous Biblical story that had been painted time and time again before her.
Exploring The Self In Labille-Guiard's Self Portrait with Two Pupils
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's Self Portrait with Two Pupils depicts the paradoxical relationship between being an artist and being a woman in eighteenth-century France.
Click on the right-side tab to learn more about Labille-Guiard's painting and why it is so significant.
Works Cited:
Auricchio, Laura. Adélaide Labille-Guiard: Artist in The Age of Revolution. Los Angeles: Getty Trust, 2009.
Auricchio, Laura. "Eighteenth-Century Female Painters in France." Metmuseum.org. Oct. 2004. The Met. 11 Sept. 2019 <https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/18wa/hd_18wa.htm>.
Auricchio, Laura. “Self-Promotion in Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's 1785 ‘Self-Portrait with Two Students.’” The Art Bulletin, vol. 89, no. 1, 2007, pp. 45–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25067300.
Montfort, Catherine R. “Self-Portraits, Portraits of Self: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, Women Artists of the Eighteenth Century.” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25474166.
Quinn, Bridget, and Lisa Congdon. Broad Strokes : 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order). Chronicle Books, 2017.