The Metropolitan Musuem of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums located in the City of New York. Founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens, today, the Musuem’s two-milljon-square-foot building houses over over two million work of arts spanning thousands of years.
The Metropolitan Store of Art offers hundreds of unique gifts inspired by the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopaedic collection and special exhibitions. The Metropolitan Store of Art Bangkok connects people to the world of art and to the museum experience. The Met Store offers a large variety of beautiful and interesting gifts of art.
Here are just some of the genius works of art that can be easily owned and given.
SCULPTURE
The Metropolitan store of art offers a variety of sculpture from world’s famoust artist such as Edgar Degas & Auguste Rodin.
Rodin: The Thinker:
Conceived as part of a monumental portal based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, Auguste Rodin’s sculpture the thinker (Le Penseur) was extracted from original relief and, as a freestanding figure, became one of his most famous works. A deeply expressive piece, out scaled reproduction was created from a bronze in the Museum’s collection that was cast from an original Rodin model.
Rodin: Eve Sculpture:
Rodin proposed The Gates of Hell, a vast composition based loosely on Dante’s Divine Comedy, but the work remained unfinished and was never cast in bronze during the sculptor’s lifetime. The Museum’s Eve was cast in bronze in 1910 from Auguste Rodin’s original 1881 model.
Rodin: Eternal Spring Sculpture:
The sculpture group Eternal Spring by Auguste Rodin, also known as Eternal Springtime was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1897 as Cupid and Psyche. The work brims with an awakening sensuality that implies neither guilt nor punishment.
Edgar Degas: Dancer Sculpture:
For his sculptures as well as for his paintings, Edgar Degas found a ready source of inspiration in the ballet dancers of the Paris Opéra. Fascinated by the dynamics of movement, the artist created a series of works depicting various positions of dance, such as the arabesque position.
Edgar Degas: Horse Standing Sculpture:
Limiting his subject matter to women, especially dancers, and to horses, Impressionist artist Degas created many variations of each figure in different poses in order to explore the dynamics of movement. Horse racing was one of Degas’s lifelong interests, and he frequented the Longchamps racetrack to study thoroughbreds in action and in leisure in order to perfectly capture their grace and beauty in his art.
