National Gallery of Arts in Washington D.C

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.