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Ngoc Nguyen visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with their grandparents. The museum has one of the finest Asian art collections which has deepened Nguyen's understanding of art. The museum itself is an impressive architectural structure housing works that transport visitors back in time. Nguyen was particularly struck by the Hall of the Buddha and its seated Bodhisattva statue, feeling a sense of peace and guidance. Overall, the visit provided valuable cultural and educational experiences that enhanced Nguyen's appreciation for art and history.

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Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ngoc Nguyen
? I came to visit my grandparents last week and we decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest Asian art collections that has enlightened and strengthened my understanding in my personal art experience. The Museum itself is an artistic architectural structure that graces the entire block on 82nd Street in Manhattan. Entering inside, I sensed myself going back into an era, into a past where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past, where I still find their works of yesteryears vividly within my grasp, to be remembered and shared as if their reflections of works were cast for the modern devoted learner.
Venus and Adonis (Titian, Rome) ? This work of art measures about 42 inches x 52 1/2 inches (¡°Venus and Adonis; Titian...¡±). The art was created using oil paint, a medium composed of pigments and varying types of vegetable oils, such as poppy, bear-seed, walnut, and linseed oils (Frank 122). The painting was done on stretched canvas, and thus it gives the painting a slight textured quality. The technique in which Titian painted this work accounts for the soft appearance of the colors. It can be observed that the paint is very well blended, leaving almost no sign of harsh brush strokes on the surface of the work. The colors have a beautiful luminescent quality, from the light fleshy colored skin of the figures to the bright blue sky in the background; it appears that despite the hundreds of years since this painting was created, the colors are as vibrant as they must have been initially.
? I decided to start out by looking at some of the various paintings. There were many different kinds, including traditional oil paintings on canvas as well as ordinary paper. One that stood out in my mind was ¡°Desert Restaurant¡± by John Register. It¡¯s a painting of the inside of a diner sitting in the middle of an open desert. The picture gives an eerie sense of isolation. One sculpture that I remember was one by Oliver Jackson, which is untitled. The sculpture appears to be a figure of a human squatting down. The sculpture is made out of Steel, Marble, and Crayon. Besides these, there were many other interesting pieces of art in the Museum including the unique bright chandeliers made of blown glass.
? I read an article in an old issue of ¡°Art in America¡± about the lack of interest many young Americans show toward art in recent years. The article went on to explain how museum attendance was down in most museums compared to 20 years ago. Their main reasoning for this was the basic arguments of the advances in other forms of technology such as Television and computers that draw the attention of young ones away from traditional arts such as museums and live plays. The article went on to say that plays have become more for the highly sophisticated and less for the average person. The average person views a live play as any normal television show and doesn¡¯t recognize the culture aspect attached to it. (Art in America, ¡°Fading Culture¡± 1991, 12-14)
The Adoration of The Shepherds ? As I look at the painting of The Adoration of The Shepherds, two artists, Andrea Mantegna and El Greco, showed it different ways with same subjects. First, the title of the paintings is about Jesus' birth. Andrea Mantegna artist had lived from ca 1430 to 1506. He established his reputation when he was 20 years old. This painting is the evident of his highly individual style. He worked it during ca 1451 to 1453. He painted it in horizontal format with 153/4x217/8(40x55.6). He used tempera on a canvas that transferred from a wood. In difference, El Greco(Spain 141-1641) worked it with oil color on canvas by vertical format. The size is 125 5/8x707/8(319x180cm). In Greco's painting, the objects are full on the canvas that big two angels and others are placed on top of the middle place, and the people are placed in triangle position based on the landscape. The landscape is very detail. The people I find it that Holy Maria is standing in the middle and the mountain is placed behind of Maria among the landscape things.
Asian Art Collections ? Walking into the Hall of the Buddha, there was a sense of peace and guidance lingering inside me. The seated Bodhisattva, of the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534), CA.480, from the Yungang, Cave xv, Shani Province, made of sandstone, guarded the entrance. At first, I thought it was a time to be disciplined, but the transcending smile from the statue was a delicate fixed gesture that offered a feeling of welcome. It was not a place to confess your wrongdoings; neither was it a place for me to say, ¡°Buddha I have sinned.¡± It was a room to purify the mind, the mind that we take for granted without giving it harmony. There was a large mural decorating the main wall called ¡°The Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru¡±(916-1125). I sat down wandering if the artist of the portrait knew that his work would one day be shared on this side of the world, in my time. Much like Jesus Christ and his followers, the mural is a painting of healers and saviors. It was a large figure of the Buddha of medicine, (Bhaishajyaquru) surrounded by followers of Bodhisattvas, Avalokiteshvara, and Mahosthamaprapta with twelve guardian generals who have pledged to disseminate the Buddha¡¯s teaching (Tradition of Liao 916-1125, Metropolitan Museum wall plaque).
? When one comes into contact with a Chinese painting, the style is almost instantly recognizable. The attention to detail, craftsmanship, and vast depictions of elaborate landscapes appear to pay homage to mother earth in an attempt to reach a state of eternal balance with nature and life. Before this equilibrium could be achieved, one must attain internal discipline. This was required before one began mastering their brushwork in Chinese culture.
? The Asian culture is a very interesting to learn about. They have many beliefs, customs and traditions that make them unique. Art was very important to the Asian culture. It was a way to express or symbolize emotions. The Asian display many different styles as well as techniques to express who they truly are and believe.
? The Japanese exhibit felt like a place of court where people came in to be cleansed, forgiven and punished after their evil deeds. Overall, my learning experience has taken me to a higher level of understanding that diversity within the same beliefs in Buddhism are mainly different by the way they migrated and the way Buddha is represented in the features and looks in another culture. However, whatever the culture might be, the teachings of Buddha are all shared and learned the same way: ¡°To do no evil.¡± ¡°To cultivate all good.¡± ¡°To purify the mind.¡± ¡°And this is the teaching of the Buddha.¡±
? Museum exploration can be a very gratifying way to absorb another culture. The vast array of museums alone is enough to boggle the mind and fascinate the senses. Visiting museum is educational. A lot of people visit museums to gain knowledge about specific theme. When you visit a museum, the things you see will be on your head for a long time, it is not like reading a book or watching a movie.
? I remember visiting the Egyptian museum when I was a kid. It was an amazingly educational visit. I saw these wonderful statues, which I can remember till now. It was great to be able to see things for real after reading about them in books.
? It is a cultural experience. People can know a lot about the country they visit by visiting the museums. You can about the history of the country, the music they prefer, or the great figures of the nation. When you visit a museum you can gather information about the people of this country, that you can not get easily from books. ? Moreover, visiting a museum is very entertaining. Watching statues that are three thousand years old or enjoying beautiful paintings in a museum, is a great experience. While visiting a museum, you live in a different world, a world that is full of wonders. You feel so excited about being between these valuable things. This feeling you will not feel it anywhere else. Visiting museums has several benefits, it is educational, cultural and fun as well. So when you go to any new place make sure to visit the museums there, otherwise you will miss a lot.

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  • 1. Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ngoc Nguyen
  • 2. ? I came to visit my grandparents last week and we decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest Asian art collections that has enlightened and strengthened my understanding in my personal art experience. The Museum itself is an artistic architectural structure that graces the entire block on 82nd Street in Manhattan. Entering inside, I sensed myself going back into an era, into a past where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past, where I still find their works of yesteryears vividly within my grasp, to be remembered and shared as if their reflections of works were cast for the modern devoted learner.
  • 3. Venus and Adonis (Titian, Rome) ? This work of art measures about 42 inches x 52 1/2 inches (¡°Venus and Adonis; Titian...¡±). The art was created using oil paint, a medium composed of pigments and varying types of vegetable oils, such as poppy, bear-seed, walnut, and linseed oils (Frank 122). The painting was done on stretched canvas, and thus it gives the painting a slight textured quality. The technique in which Titian painted this work accounts for the soft appearance of the colors. It can be observed that the paint is very well blended, leaving almost no sign of harsh brush strokes on the surface of the work. The colors have a beautiful luminescent quality, from the light fleshy colored skin of the figures to the bright blue sky in the background; it appears that despite the hundreds of years since this painting was created, the colors are as vibrant as they must have been initially.
  • 4. ? I decided to start out by looking at some of the various paintings. There were many different kinds, including traditional oil paintings on canvas as well as ordinary paper. One that stood out in my mind was ¡°Desert Restaurant¡± by John Register. It¡¯s a painting of the inside of a diner sitting in the middle of an open desert. The picture gives an eerie sense of isolation. One sculpture that I remember was one by Oliver Jackson, which is untitled. The sculpture appears to be a figure of a human squatting down. The sculpture is made out of Steel, Marble, and Crayon. Besides these, there were many other interesting pieces of art in the Museum including the unique bright chandeliers made of blown glass.
  • 5. ? I read an article in an old issue of ¡°Art in America¡± about the lack of interest many young Americans show toward art in recent years. The article went on to explain how museum attendance was down in most museums compared to 20 years ago. Their main reasoning for this was the basic arguments of the advances in other forms of technology such as Television and computers that draw the attention of young ones away from traditional arts such as museums and live plays. The article went on to say that plays have become more for the highly sophisticated and less for the average person. The average person views a live play as any normal television show and doesn¡¯t recognize the culture aspect attached to it. (Art in America, ¡°Fading Culture¡± 1991, 12-14)
  • 6. The Adoration of The Shepherds ? As I look at the painting of The Adoration of The Shepherds, two artists, Andrea Mantegna and El Greco, showed it different ways with same subjects. First, the title of the paintings is about Jesus' birth. Andrea Mantegna artist had lived from ca 1430 to 1506. He established his reputation when he was 20 years old. This painting is the evident of his highly individual style. He worked it during ca 1451 to 1453. He painted it in horizontal format with 153/4x217/8(40x55.6). He used tempera on a canvas that transferred from a wood. In difference, El Greco(Spain 141-1641) worked it with oil color on canvas by vertical format. The size is 125 5/8x707/8(319x180cm). In Greco's painting, the objects are full on the canvas that big two angels and others are placed on top of the middle place, and the people are placed in triangle position based on the landscape. The landscape is very detail. The people I find it that Holy Maria is standing in the middle and the mountain is placed behind of Maria among the landscape things.
  • 7. Asian Art Collections ? Walking into the Hall of the Buddha, there was a sense of peace and guidance lingering inside me. The seated Bodhisattva, of the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534), CA.480, from the Yungang, Cave xv, Shani Province, made of sandstone, guarded the entrance. At first, I thought it was a time to be disciplined, but the transcending smile from the statue was a delicate fixed gesture that offered a feeling of welcome. It was not a place to confess your wrongdoings; neither was it a place for me to say, ¡°Buddha I have sinned.¡± It was a room to purify the mind, the mind that we take for granted without giving it harmony. There was a large mural decorating the main wall called ¡°The Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru¡±(916-1125). I sat down wandering if the artist of the portrait knew that his work would one day be shared on this side of the world, in my time. Much like Jesus Christ and his followers, the mural is a painting of healers and saviors. It was a large figure of the Buddha of medicine, (Bhaishajyaquru) surrounded by followers of Bodhisattvas, Avalokiteshvara, and Mahosthamaprapta with twelve guardian generals who have pledged to disseminate the Buddha¡¯s teaching (Tradition of Liao 916-1125, Metropolitan Museum wall plaque).
  • 8. ? When one comes into contact with a Chinese painting, the style is almost instantly recognizable. The attention to detail, craftsmanship, and vast depictions of elaborate landscapes appear to pay homage to mother earth in an attempt to reach a state of eternal balance with nature and life. Before this equilibrium could be achieved, one must attain internal discipline. This was required before one began mastering their brushwork in Chinese culture.
  • 9. ? The Asian culture is a very interesting to learn about. They have many beliefs, customs and traditions that make them unique. Art was very important to the Asian culture. It was a way to express or symbolize emotions. The Asian display many different styles as well as techniques to express who they truly are and believe.
  • 10. ? The Japanese exhibit felt like a place of court where people came in to be cleansed, forgiven and punished after their evil deeds. Overall, my learning experience has taken me to a higher level of understanding that diversity within the same beliefs in Buddhism are mainly different by the way they migrated and the way Buddha is represented in the features and looks in another culture. However, whatever the culture might be, the teachings of Buddha are all shared and learned the same way: ¡°To do no evil.¡± ¡°To cultivate all good.¡± ¡°To purify the mind.¡± ¡°And this is the teaching of the Buddha.¡±
  • 11. ? Museum exploration can be a very gratifying way to absorb another culture. The vast array of museums alone is enough to boggle the mind and fascinate the senses. Visiting museum is educational. A lot of people visit museums to gain knowledge about specific theme. When you visit a museum, the things you see will be on your head for a long time, it is not like reading a book or watching a movie.
  • 12. ? I remember visiting the Egyptian museum when I was a kid. It was an amazingly educational visit. I saw these wonderful statues, which I can remember till now. It was great to be able to see things for real after reading about them in books.
  • 13. ? It is a cultural experience. People can know a lot about the country they visit by visiting the museums. You can about the history of the country, the music they prefer, or the great figures of the nation. When you visit a museum you can gather information about the people of this country, that you can not get easily from books. ? Moreover, visiting a museum is very entertaining. Watching statues that are three thousand years old or enjoying beautiful paintings in a museum, is a great experience. While visiting a museum, you live in a different world, a world that is full of wonders. You feel so excited about being between these valuable things. This feeling you will not feel it anywhere else. Visiting museums has several benefits, it is educational, cultural and fun as well. So when you go to any new place make sure to visit the museums there, otherwise you will miss a lot.