Critique of Metropolitan Museum art
Metropolitan Museum is the largest museum in New York with the leading art in the entire United States of America. It the leading museum in terms of size, the number of visitors as well as the rating of the arts in the Museum. The Museum presents more than five-hundred arts with a different kind of information attached to each of those arts. The reason as to why the Museum was to enhance arts and arts education to the American people (Vinci, “n,p”). However, the interpretation depends on the understanding that the tourist has concerning art as well as its drawings. Yet, the museum was found out to be the fourth most visited museum in the world (Winifred., “n.p”) Primarily, the types of art in the museum are the permanent collections which include, Egypt works painted, sculptures, as an extensive of collection of the existing art in the Museum. In this case, the harvester’s image has been taken into consideration and put into a sequence of analysis. The document gives a critique of the art in the Museum using four aspects; description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment. These different aspects of criticism are provided as follows;
Description of the harvester’s art in the Metropolitan Museum.
The harvesters are a painting of oil on top of a wood completed by Peter Bruegel. It has an implication of harvesting time in July as well as August. The painting is among the six series in which five of them are depicted different times of the year in the setting considered in the painting. However, many of the artist’s paintings have its focus on the peasant’s men and women who gather crops in different seasons of the year. Similarly, the artwork does not contain any religious themes, which are often prevalent in the landscape of the times of work. As seen in the art, it can be noted that some of these peasants are eating while others are in the field trying to harvest more before leaving the area. In other words, two settings can be seen whereby the first one is the setting of consumption, while the second one is the production setting, having the peasants harvesting on the farm.
Similarly, the art shows a woman who is among the peasants situated under the pears tree. The woman is eating bread with cheese while the rest are also busy eating their food. The painting also shows other different activities, and for instance, there is an individual who is trying to get some apple fruit from an apple tree by shaking the tree. In the other end of the art, there is a group of villagers who are participating in the blood sport of throwing a cock- instead of having a ceremony (Thomas, 22). A sense of separation or distancing is also seen by the workers who are carrying baskets of wheat as well as the people who are bathing in the pond. In the far end, some children are playing in different groups, and the ships are far away.
Analysis of harvesters art.
The artist has achieved an aspect of order in his art by grouping different settings in different places. However, he has also used the color to make some captivation within the mind of the target audience of the art painting. The artist has also employed the illusion of space through the overlapping of the elements in the art painting. The main reason for such a phenomenon is to maximize the total space available for the entire art. However, the artist has chosen the best elements of design- human beings and the environment. This is because both features are the standard features both in the museum as well as outside the museum.
Interpretation of the harvester’s art in the Metropolitan Museum.
The art gives a clear interpretation as the activities which are often carried out among the people. Similarly, there are other aspects such as the general philosophy that there are a few individuals who don’t like working are also presented in the image as the individuals who are situated under the tree. Besides, it can be noted that some of the art shows the occupational activity of the individuals in the setting considered in the art. It can also be noted that the people are so much attached to their culture to the point of distributing activities among the individuals among the people.
From the analysis above, it can be deduced that the artwork has different dimensions in which it can be analyses. However, it is also possible to have different interpretations of the artwork since there is no specific way of interpreting the arts. In the case of the harvesters’ artwork, the primary feature that can be seen is the occupational activity of the people in the rea, which is farming. Similarly, cultural attachments can also be seen in artwork from what the people are doing in the art under analysis.
Works cited
Da Vinci, Leonardo, Rachel Stern, and Alison Manges. Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman: Catalogue to an Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2003. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
Howe, Winifred E. A history of the metropolitan museum of art, with a chapter on the early institutions of art in New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914.
Hoving, Thomas. Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simon and Schuster, 1994.