New York City was a great experience which gave insight to my mind on many wonders of art. The first museum I attended was "The Metropolitan Museum." This museum consisted of ancient times, through to the early parts of our history! Many of the pieces had my attention due to either their architecture or feeling of relaxation.
The museum consisted of many different types of cultures in history. The artwork that had influenced me the most was definitely the painting by the artist "Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900). The main reason i favor this piece is because this is right near the area in which i live, a hundred and so years after!
The description of this piece states that the large studio piece commissioned in 1864 by Milton Courtright. Courtright hired Cropsey to paint this painting where Courtright lived. The medium was oil on canvas. For me to stumble across a painting where i live in such a beautiful place, was truly an amazing sight.
Walking around this giant maze of masterpieces, I found myself sitting on the side of a tomb enjoying the water in front of me, setting off a relaxing tone. These tombs were an amazing thing to see that I had no idea I'd ever be able to see in my life. Everyone else around me seemed to feel the same way, staring in awe at the sight.
"The Metropolitan Museum" or "Met" which i had learned while i was there, gave my eyes an architectural experience of a lifetime. Throughout the walk of the museum, I kept asking myself how such extraordinary pieces were possible. These sights intrigued my mind to be a part of the wonderful world of art in some way. I will definitely visit this museum again in the near future to show my friends what i keep talking about!
The second most interesting museum i had visited was "The Frick Collection." This collection of art was in a mansion that seemed ever so casual outside, until you walked in. This collection started off downstairs with drawings that had very interesting stories. One drawing was of a man and three donkeys in fancy suits. It portrayed the man being a coward, and the donkeys to be men that were jackasses who didn't act as important as they had dressed. Basically they were jackasses. This symbolic meaning represents what the others in the collection downstairs were trying to portray; not in the same meaning of the donkey one, but in a sense of comparing others. For example another one was of a family weeping in sadness with a dog in the picture. The dog wasn't what they were crying about, they were crying about the girl in the chair for not making enough money in prostitution that day.
The Frick Collection consisted of a lot of many elegant things. It had a very rich sense to everything. The one portrait of King James was said to be fifty billion dollars in the early 20th century. That is a very, very, very large amount of money in our time now. Everything had ropes around it so no one would touch it, meaning that if something does it would take away a great value of it.
My favorite part in the Frick Collection was the pond they had inside. I must have sat in there for at least half an hour enjoying the elegance of everything. The plants surrounding it were even real which i thought to be very well kept.
I was telling my friend that had joined me that i will live exactly like this one day, if not, it will be better. Seeing so many opportunities to the extreme was a great thing to put into my mind. I now have assets and goals that one can not imagine.
Going to N.Y.C. to visit these museums has honestly changed my life. Not because it was the first time i was there or exploring the largest city in America, but because of the knowledge i gained by seeing, knowing, and picturing my future in the hands of art. I now believe that art is not just a painting on the wall or a mansion, but it is a truly unique thing that is in everyday life that people don't see or understand. Art is not to be taken for granted, but art is a life of possibilities that must be understood. Thank you for this experience.
I am glad that you got so much out of this experience Eric!!!! That is wonderful to hear!
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