blog 7- MET

   The metropolitan museum of art is an extraordinary museum filled with incredible pieces of art work. I've never really appreciated art until I went there for the first time with this period 4 humanities class. I've been there 3 times since and I'm going again next week in hopes of seeing some more really cool pieces. Out of the four times I've been there within a couple months there has been this one painting that I've had to go back to see and I don't even know exactly why. There are about 400,000 pieces or so in the metropolitan museum of art (which I haven't even seen half of yet) and this one so far is my favorite. I guess it's because I find it so fascinating that his paintings are just a million little dots up close and you might not recognize what you are looking until you take a step back and see the bigger picture. It's kinda like that saying about life "If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right."  I also love his paintings "all-overness" "the event" "after 'the event'" "'the best of the grid'" and many more.

    The name of the piece is Lucas I, it is an oil and graphite on canvas. This was painted by the American artist Chuck Close in 1986-87. Associated with the Photo- or Super-Realist movement of the late-1960s and 1970s, Close initially became known for the minutely detailed portrait heads he painted on a monumental scale in black, white, and gray. The subjects close uses mostly includes his friends and family,  many of whom are connected to the art world as artists, dealers, and collectors.

 I also took this picture of one of the stained glass pieces. 

 get the big picture right."  I also love his paintings "all-overness" "the event" "after 'the event'" "'the best of the grid'" and many more.

    The name of the piece is Lucas I, it is an oil and graphite on canvas. This was painted by the American artist Chuck Close in 1986-87. Associated with the Photo- or Super-Realist movement of the late-1960s and 1970s, Close initially became known for the minutely detailed portrait heads he painted on a monumental scale in black, white, and gray. The subjects close uses mostly includes his friends and family,  many of whom are connected to the art world as artists, dealers, and collectors.

 I also took this picture of one of the stained glass pieces.