{"id":5479,"date":"2012-07-17T22:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:46:47","slug":"the-metropolitan-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/the-metropolitan-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did I mention it was hot…<\/p>\n

Okay I think theres something to this jet lag thingy. After that looong flight yesterday we found ourselves at the Met at 9am???<\/p>\n

In the UK we are just plain spoilt. A recommended $25 per person entry fee. That is only recommended, you could pay just 1$ but still! $25. We’re so lucky in the UK to get free entry to our museums. Lets just say Steph and I got our moneys worth and we nowhere near got to see all the rooms. They started kicking people out towards 5.30….<\/p>\n

Its a bit weird at the Met. They have all the arty stuff and all the history\/ethnographic stuff all in the same vast building.<\/p>\n

Now I’m not one for shooting digi snaps left right and centre so I just thought I’d add some things I found of interest. Everything else can be found on other peoples flickr accounts and blogs I’m sure.<\/p>\n

One piece I found I really liked, I’d dismissed when I first walked into the room. Thats was a work by Clinton De Menezes. “Procession (Exodus) 2008-2010”. At first I’d ignored it but on closer inspection there were hundreds of little figures stuck in place. You can read more about his work here… www.clintondemenezes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Then there was this piece by Mark Tansey, “The Innocent Eye Test, 1981” Apparently this painting has been interpreted by many as a not-so-veiled commentary on art critics.<\/p>\n

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And this piece by Chuck Close, “Mark”. From a distance you could mistake this for a photograph or photorealistic pairing but up close the detail is amazing especially as its air-brushed in multiple layers.<\/p>\n

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There was a small selection of photographic work on show in different areas. Some historic pieces I found of interest was one by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, with the collodion lifting around the edges to make a frame of the remaining image.<\/p>\n

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And this by an unknown French artist, ca. 1856. A salt paper print from a glass negative.<\/p>\n

From the accompanying text panel:<\/p>\n

“…More unusually, the images are interrupted by a surface pattern that gives the impression that the photographs are printed on finely pleated silk rather than paper – likely the result of a technical error. Instead of wiping clean his glass plate negatives and starting over as virtually all other photographers would have done, this artist recognised that the pattern created a veil that, like time or memory, removed the images from their merely utilitarian purpose and elevated them from the mundane to the realm of art”<\/p>\n

Make of that what you will, but it made a change to see a historic print like this, especially as it shows issues with wet plate that are brought up on todays wet plate forums online.<\/p>\n

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