The Artist Project - The Metropolitan Museum of Art (original) (raw)
Ever since it was founded in 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been a place where artists come to gain inspiration from works of art from their own time and place, and also from across time and cultures.
The Artist Project is an online series in which we give artists an opportunity to respond to our encyclopedic collection.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met. Their unique and passionate ways of seeing and experiencing art encourage all museum visitors to look in a personal way.
Over the course of six seasons, The Artist Project shares the perspectives of one hundred and twenty artists with the public, telling us what they see when they look at The Met.
Artist Andrea Bowers reflects on Howardena Pindell in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Barry X Ball reflects on an Egyptian fragment of a queen’s face in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Carolee Schneemann reflects on Cycladic female figures in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Catherine Opie reflects on the Louis XIV bedroom in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Cecily Brown reflects on medieval sculptures of the Madonna and Child in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Eric Fischl reflects on Max Beckmann's Beginning in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Fred Tomaselli reflects on Guru Dragpo in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Jacob El Hanani reflects on the Mishneh Torah by Master of the Barbo Missal in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Jeff Koons reflects on Roman sculpture in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Joan Snyder reflects on Florine Stettheimer's Cathedrals paintings in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Krishna Reddy reflects on Henry Moore in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Lin Tianmiao reflects on Alex Katz's Black and Brown Blouse in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Mary Weatherford reflects on Goya's Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Nan Goldin reflects on Julia Margaret Cameron in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Petah Coyne reflects on a Japanese outer robe with Mount Hōrai in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Rashid Rana reflects on Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Suzan Frecon reflects on Duccio di Buoninsegna's Madonna and Child in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist William Wegman reflects on Walker Evans's postcard collection in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
Artist Zhang Xiaogang reflects on El Greco's The Vision of Saint John in this episode of The Artist Project.
June 6, 2016
About Season 6
Twenty artists share their perspectives on works of art at The Met
5,000 years of art, one material at a time
The science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.
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