New York Urban Explorers: Art, Food, Museums, Walks, etc.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - The American Collection - Art History Series Hosted by Robert Kelleman

You’re invited to join us for a 2-part livestreamed art history series covering the fabulous American art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the world’s great art museums, and also one my favorite places. : )

The American galleries at the Met feature one of the world’s top collections of American art, with works by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and more.

Out art history program will highlight “The American Experience”, including various aspects of New York history and culture.

During and after the program you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the topics with your fellow art lovers via Zoom.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The American Collection ...

Part 1 - Art to 1780
Colonial America through the American Revolution (1776-1783)
Friday, May 8

Part 2 - Art from 1780 - 1815
The Federal Period through the War of 1812
Friday, May 15

Future Met Programs:
The Antebellum Period
The Civil War & Reconstruction
The Gilded Age
Early Modern

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 to bring art and art education to the American people and is one of the most-visited art museums in the world.

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Caravaggio & The Italian Baroque - Art History Livestream Hosted by Robert Kelleman

You are invited to join us for an art history livestream program covering the Italian painter Caravaggio, one of the greatest artists in history, especially noted for his dramatic use of light and shadow, and his influence on the Baroque era.
During and after the program you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the art with your fellow art lovers via Zoom.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows. Caravaggio vividly expressed crucial moments and scenes, often featuring violent struggles, torture, and death. He worked rapidly with live models, preferring to forgo drawings and work directly onto the canvas. His inspiring effect on the new Baroque style that emerged from Mannerism was profound.
His influence can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Velázquez and Rembrandt.
Caravaggio's innovations inspired Baroque painting, but the latter incorporated the drama of his chiaroscuro without the psychological realism. The 20th-century art historian André Berne-Joffroy stated: "What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting."

Baroque Painting encompasses a great range of styles, as most important and major painting during the period beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century, and into the early 18th century is identified today as Baroque painting. In its most typical manifestations, Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep colour, and intense light and dark shadows, but the classicism of French Baroque painters like Poussin and Dutch genre painters such as Vermeer are also covered by the term, at least in English. As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring: Michelangelo, working in the High Renaissance, shows his David composed and still before he battles Goliath; Bernini's Baroque David is caught in the act of hurling the stone at the giant. Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance.
Among the greatest painters of the Baroque period are Velázquez, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, and Vermeer.

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Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age - Art Program Hosted by Robert Kelleman

You’re invited to join us for an art history livestream featuring Rembrandt van Rijn and the Dutch Golden Age.
While our program will focus on Rembrandt, we’ll also explore several of artists and the overall history and culture of the Dutch Golden Age.
This is the first of a 2-part series on Dutch art, with a separate program featuring Johannes Vermeer (The Girl with the Pearl Earring).

During and after the program you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the topics with your fellow participants via Zoom.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - The American Collection - Art History Series Hosted by Robert Kelleman

You’re invited to join us for a 2-part livestreamed art history series covering the fabulous American art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the world’s great art museums, and also one my favorite places. : )

The American galleries at the Met feature one of the world’s top collections of American art, with works by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and more.

Out art history program will highlight “The American Experience”, including various aspects of New York history and culture.

During and after the program you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the topics with your fellow art lovers via Zoom.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The American Collection ...

Part 1 - Art to 1780
Colonial America through the American Revolution (1776-1783)
Friday, May 8

Part 2 - Art from 1780 - 1815
The Federal Period through the War of 1812
Friday, May 15

Future Met Programs:
The Antebellum Period
The Civil War & Reconstruction
The Gilded Age
Early Modern

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 to bring art and art education to the American people and is one of the most-visited art museums in the world.

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