Tourist Guide

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

I’ve been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art around two or three times by now, and the one thing that always amazed me were the Greek and Roman statues.  The amount of detail on a statue like “Ugolino and His Sons,” where the anxiety and desperation can be seen clearly on Ugolino’s face, is just extraordinary.  I can’t imagine how much time and effort was put into the statue to make the muscle structure, the tonality, and the expressions so lifelike.  On top of the amazing sculptures on the first floor, there were also a great number of paintings and pictures as well.  Though there was one stretch of paintings where the quality of the pieces were questionable (the term “art” is such a subjective term), many of the pictures were well done.  One of the paintings that really caught my eye was Salvador Dali’s “Crucifixion.”  It was well-drawn, but to tell the truth, the manner in which it is drawn is slightly haunting.  The “floating” effect of the picture left me a little uneasy for some reason.  Despite the long treks along the first floor, I enjoyed seeing different cultures mesh together in a grandiose gallery of art.  Just like I said with the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a must-see for any tourist.