The Met

Went to the Met yesterday. Wonderful experience. So much to see and ponder about. Easily could spend a week in there and still be unsatisfied with the experience.

Truly need to go back to look at the entire upper floor again. Just managed a cursive look. Lots of Bodhisattva statuettes in the Asia section. Maybe that’s all the stuff that they could get out. But truly gives an idea of how important Buddhism was and is to Asia. Makes you wonder how Hinduism managed to win the encounter in the Indian Peninsula.

Lasting impressions,

Salvador Dali’s Crucifixion – He plays with light and distance, orientation, to give the impression of a levitating Christ superimposed on cross of cubes.

Calatrava’s exhibit – He gives such a sense of balance to his ideas that some of them actually seem to float. And most of his creations are functional. Not just art. His versions of the human head on the spine, and the spine in itself make you rethink all the anatomy that you are so sure of and have accepted as too complex to represent, in straight lines. Beautiful. The whole exhibit makes you think about lines of weight transmission and tension, and the way he makes them come together in magical sculptures.

Ah and all the nudes, easily the reason I missed seeing so much of the other art on display.