NYC Field Trip

We are hitting the big apple a week from Friday.  Come by my classroom if you want to join us.
The bus leaves school at 6:00 AM and we don't return until 11:00 PM.  It is a whirlwind, but a whole lot of fun and inspiration.  The Metropolitan is having an exhibit on Vermeer's painting "The Milkmaid".  It is a treat to see a masterpiece such as this in person, not to mention the thousands of other gorgeous master works.  You have to see this painting to appreciate the craftsmanship. Breathtaking!  You must come with us!

"Influenced by the detailed realism of Gerrit Dou (1613–1675) and his followers in Leiden, Vermeer created his most illusionistic image in The Milkmaid. To modern viewers the picture may resemble a photograph. However, the composition is exquisitely designed, as is evident from several revisions made in the course of execution and from subtle relationships of light and shadow, color, contours, and shapes. A low vantage point and a pyramidal buildup of forms from the left foreground to the woman's head lend the figure monumentality and perhaps a sense of dignity. And yet, like milkmaids and kitchen maids in earlier Netherlandish art, and like other young women in Vermeer's oeuvre, this figure was meant to attract the male viewer and to have her own thoughts of romance."

-Metropolitan Museum of Art Website

We will also be visiting galleries in SoHo and perhaps the Museum of Comic Book Art.