Kristen, TAG Member
Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013
«Curator Jeff L. Rosenheim recently spoke to the Teen Advisory Group about the current exhibition Photography and the American Civil War. As part of his talk, he showed us an 1864 photograph of Union soldiers posing on the front steps of Robert E. Lee's Virginia home, which the government had confiscated in 1861.
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Genevieve, TAG Member
Posted: Thursday, April 11, 2013
«Photographs play an important role in history by documenting moments in time. When people look at historical photographs, they are able to peer into worlds they previously could only imagine.
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Evelin, TAG Member
Posted: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
«Seeing the work of Henri Matisse—the French artist who experimented with different methods such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture—makes me want to know more about art in general.
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Theo, High School Intern
Posted: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
«My family has a penchant for strolling through museums. I've appreciated this more as I've gotten older, but as a kid I got bored easily. Pausing before a piece by Salvador Dalí was always an incredible relief, and I came to crave the fluid style and disturbing clutter of his work.
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Maleficent Twemlow (a.k.a. Anna), TAG Member
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2013
«"A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience." –Mark Rothko
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Audrey, TAG Member
Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
«The Teen Advisory Group recently visited the Museum's permanent collection of modern and contemporary art to talk about the work of Henri Matisse. Our guest speaker, Met lecturer Deborah A. Goldberg, PhD, asked, "What do you first think of when you think of Matisse?" There was a great variety of answers.
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Karl, TAG Member
Posted: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
«In our recent tour through the Met's galleries with lecturer Deborah A. Goldberg, we looked at Henri Matisse's paintings and Fauvist works by other artists that incorporate techniques such as mixing an enormous array of colors. Although my brain is still processing the information, one of Matisse's methods particularly stood out to me. It's called "non finito."
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Cheeky Swagger (a.k.a. Dan), TAG Member
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
How many times has the word "perspective" appeared when referring to one's impression of, well, any artwork or art gallery? "Perspective" is like the bacon of art vocabulary; you sprinkle it over any conversation and it can spark a delicious array of reactions. In my experience, abstract art produces the most varied responses.
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Shivanna, High School Intern
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
«When you enter the Met, you leave the buzzing streets of Manhattan behind and are transported back in time and to foreign places. As an artist, intern, frequent Met visitor, and New Yorker, I can say the Met is my favorite place to "vacation" when I need to get away from the bustling world outside.
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Julia, High School Intern
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
I'll admit it. There are some pieces in the Met's collection that I am very tempted to touch—the smooth, cold sculptures, for instance, and paint globs that dry seemingly inches off the canvas. It's due in part to this inclination that I enjoy visiting the Musical Instruments galleries so much.
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