Metropolitan Museum of Art and Ezair gallery

There were two main exhibits that I wanted to be sure I saw while visiting the Met. The first was the Egyptian exhibit. I always felt there was such a ridiculous, yet beautiful, mount of detail put into the Egyptian piece. All of the little blue men pictured above, along with the eagle, could only be two to three inches tall, or in the eagle's case, long. For such a small, portable figurine, it had to be very time consuming to carve and paint all of the tiny details. All through the Egyptian culture the art is planned and organized. Their stories and ideologies can be traced through out time even by those just beginning to look at art and it's context in society.


The second exhibit I really wanted to be sure I saw was the section on Asian Culture. I have always been interested in Asian art and culture, especially the Japanese. Both pieces in pictures require precision, mainly the stone. The stone is set so that the water on the top is able to flow across the surface with no emphasis on going one way over the rock or another. The other picture is of the artwork on a room divider. Each section of the divider shows a very calm, relaxing, and natural scene. I couldn't tell from behind the glass but it looked as though each woven piece was colored separately from the others and assembled afterward.

Ezair Gallery

The gallery was just a small second story loft with only about 20 to 25 paintings being displayed. It was located at 905 Madison Ave. between 72nd and 73rd streets. What was so appealing about the art displayed was its softness. The paintings in the right picture were the first to capture our eyes walking in. None of them had clear outlines. Considering both sets, I feel we were very drawn to the paintings due to the clear existence of a rainbow in each and the association rainbows have with the LGBT community.