I went to the National Gallery of Arts in Washington
D.C for the first time. When I went to the museum I expected to see different
types of artwork like painting, sculptures, and architectures. I wanted to see
the differences from the past arts to the further arts that we have today. I’ve
seen plenty of artwork that has the same qualities, patterns, design, color and
structure. I love art that can tell a story or show how the arts were feeling. When I went there wasn't any events or shows, but it was amazing trip to the museum.
The first sculpture I saw was the Edger Degas piece,
The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. It was sculptured in spring 1878-1881 it
basically a wax statuette dressed in real clothes, was very innovative, most of
all because she was a "modern subject": a student dancer of the Paris
Opera Ballet. Her head is held high and the arms and hands are stretched behind
her back. It was a beautiful art piece. The second artwork was Chalice of the
Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis Cup. The cup was used to celebrate the mass, the
gems echoing the jewel-like colors streaming through stained glass. It’s from
Paris, France, the gold and gem encrusted cup was made at the behest of Suger.
Most of the stones were later replaced, and only one of the original roundels
on the base survives, that of Christ Pantokrator, as in the Byzantine
tradition. The third artwork was a painting by Titian is called Venus and
Adonis. It was painted in 1560 and it’s oil
on canvas painting. Titian
painted the first version of Venus and
Adonis as one of a series of eight mythological subjects, which he
called poesie, or visual poems,
created for King Philip II of Spain. I like this painting because it shows
emotion, the colors, and the details.
