Metropolitan Museum of Art Trip

The Metropolitan Museum of Art reflects the global scopes of collections and extends across the world through a variety exhibitions, excavations, professional exchanges, conservation projects, and traveling works of art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's roots date back to 1866 in Paris, France, when a group of Americans agreed to create a "national institution and gallery of art" to bring art and art education to the American people. In 1938 the museum extended with a new building called the Cloisters museum and gardens. This branch focus' on the art and architecture of medieval Europe. When I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I looked at paintings from several artists including Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Braque, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Pablo Picasso and my personal favorite Salvador Dali. My favorite section of the museum was the Modern and Contemporary Art wing of the museum. The first artist I viewed was Edgar Degas and his sculpture “The Fourteen Year old Dancer”, it was very different in person than what I saw online. My favorite artist that I visited was Salvadore Dali. My favorite was “Madonna” which was painted in 1958 as an oil painting on canvas. It is Dali's rendition of Raphaels Sistine Madonna reference to the Passion of Christ.