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  • Essay / Reflecting on my visit to the Bass Museum of Art

    On February 4, I visited the Bass Museum of Art which is located in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. The museum was reopened in October 2017 after closed for restoration in 2015. The Bass Museum was founded in 1964 with a donation from a private collection of John and Johanna Bass to the city of Miami Beach. The museum is in a park where I had sometimes skated with my friends and I was always curious to go in and see it but I never did until this day I had to go there for the my class project. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an Original Essay While walking around the museum, they were explaining the different areas of the museum. The first room I visited was where the oil paintings were, which caught my attention because of the brightness, notice and colors they had. There were other objects like an Egyptian tomb, a knight on horseback and some masks that I noticed were very strange. The work I liked the most was "The Coronation of the Virgin with the Saints" by Sandro Botticelli but his real name was Alessandro by Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, Italian painter born March 1, 1445 and Domenico Bigordi known by the nickname by Ghirlandaio, born in Florence, Italy on June 2, 1494. This work caught my attention for its meaning, the scene is divided into two distinct parts. The lower part signifies when the first Christians awaited the imminent return of Christ and the upper part in which the miracle occurs where we see the coronation of the virgin by God surrounded by cherubim, seraphim and angels. Cherubim and seraphim are angels who work together and under the immediate command of God, serving as their greatest and most important advisors and managers, and other angels were responsible for carrying God's message to people. One of the works that also caught my attention was the Egyptian tomb. This caught my attention because it was something I had never seen before, it was from the 9th to 6th century BCE and we didn't know who the tomb was. From my point of view I could see that the tomb was made of wood and plaster and had colors which explained to me that at that time it was colored with nuts which crushed them by grabbing the dust and then gave it color. the color. Wanting to learn more about this work of art, I learned that ancient Egyptian sarcophagi were the outer protective layer of a real mummy with several layers of coffins nestled inside. They were decorated with carvings with hieroglyphs and reliefs both inside and out and with ornate paintings. The materials used ranged from stone to metal. The work I didn't like was “Masques delaves”. These masks offer a similar exotic and mystical quality. These masks were made of wood, with more materials like sunglasses sticks and sewing pins. These works were created by Pascale Marthine Tayou, born in Cameroon in 1966. The work did not catch my attention because from my point of view it is not something pretty and it takes me back to the time of black African and Indian slaves. The work on display was “Ponytails (2014)”. The artist of this work is Mika Rottenberg born in Uruguay and raised in Israel. The mechanical work Ponytails sets an ominous tone. A set of three mats shrink and slide, emerging through holes in the wall that are believed to be where their owners are hiding. Their isolated, repetitive movements cause vision to focus on the mundane, which would lead to an evaluation of everyday elements that would go unnoticed..