Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the best art museums in New York. It shows exhibits featuring all different cultures and types of art. Other then American art, the museum also displayed Chinese, African, Islamic, Asian, Greek, and Roman art. The trip to the museum was a pleasant experience for me because it got me off the Island and made me experience and see new and different things.
In the American Paintings and Sculpture section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the painting of Hugh Hall, which was painted by John Singleton Copley, is a very powerful painting. Hugh Hall was a distiller, son of the governor of Barbados, and a Boston merchant of great affluence .The portrait reveals the artist, Copley's, attempt to master the difficult medium of pastel crayons. The picture bears the scars of his struggle to bend an obdurate medium to his will, but what the picture lacks is elegance, but it makes up in forcefulness. This portrait of Hugh Hall is Copley's first pastel.
Another painting that uses oil on canvas is The American School by Matthew Pratt in 1765...