Essay #2

             This sculpture is actually a marble head of a god believed to be Zeus. A  Greek, Hellenistic, 3rd or 2nd century B.C, 13 by 3/16in (33.5cm). This stone sculpture can be viewed on the met museum website in gallery 160 credited by Fletcher Fund, 1926. This work of art is a 3dimensional figure representational and realistic, consisting of three different molds with a medium of marble, parian, and the back of the head was molded with another material possibly stucco. 

 

 

 

 

 

   



 This Skeleton Dance Costume is from Tibet, late 19th or early 20th century made with silk, flannel, from Mrs. Edward A. Nis, in 1934 (34.80.3a-h) This was a traditional gift of Buddhist practiced in Tibet. These skeleton dances mostly took

place in public, "they allude impermanence of life and, by extension, of all things". Chod, a skeleton dance done as a spiritual practice for Buddhists monks in Tibet that wished to further their learnings and beliefs beyond the monastery. The dance was viewed more relevant by the dancers performance and abstract costume.  

                                   

 

 

 
      A Seated Four-Armed Vishnu made in India, (Tamil Nadu), Pandya dynasty, second half of the 8th-early 9th century Granite. This sculpture is the largest in the Museum's South Asian collection, giving a sense of the great scale Indian Monuments. Vishnu is the figure sculpted sitting on a lion throne in an objective posture of Lalitasana. Vishnu is a Hindu figure portrayed to preserve the world against evil. This is a rare example of the Pandya dynasty, originally holding a battle conch in his left hand and a chakra in his right hand.




     Paul Cézanne Still Life With Apples and Pears ca. 1891-91 a 2dimensional oil painting of apples and pears on a beige table as the foreground.  "With an apple I want to astonish Paris," Cézanne. Red, green, and yellow, are the four abstract apples on the right portion of the canvas, with four all green pears on the left portion. There are two white plates under the fruits resembling positive space in this painting, with a two toned wall in the background navy blue and sky blue with a reddish border line crossing the top of the painting. All of these items depicted in this painting were in Paul's family's estate where he examined the objects from numerous viewpoints, straight on, sideways and above.

Box of an Anthropoid Coffin Dynasty 20-21, ca. 1150-945 B.C. A Contemporary painted tomb holding the guise of King Amenhotep I. The figures within this coffin are detailed with colorful style and a brief description of whom the funerary service is held for is on a outer plaque. Also on the exterior of this coffin is a priest in panther skin, a human-headed ba-bird believed to be the coffin owner's soul, and a funerary vignette on a papyri, a  description of the execution style on a thin sheet. The owners name is never mentioned in any of the various inscriptions.

I enjoyed my overall Museum experiences because I witnessed multiple realistic and surreal works of art at first hand, somewhat. These works are in museum's because they portray such images that capture viewers in many different ways, some may love the works, and some people may hate them, both strong feelings the artists wish to commemorate for. A lot of the works are also in the Museum because different countries wanted to have the works viewed as monumental figures.