Native American Art Experience

Speaking right from the mind, the journey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was quite long and arduous. As a student who chose music 10100 as the lesser of two evils, an art museum was one of the last places to go in my time in New York City. Walking through the entrance with a pre-downloaded map on my phone still made life hard. I first headed to the Greek and Roman art. I did not find anything interesting that was related to music and dance. I assumed that an early civilization would have the most relevance to music since they have many different ideas of gods in their mythology. But as I was cruising near the end I noticed a terracotta statue of Aphrodite and Eros. This piece of art was actually not that quite of an amazement to me so I

The meaning of the dance was to be focused and absorbed. The dancer would point to arrow with a solitary finger and just like the arrow when shot it is focused on its target with full absorption of the task. This section made me feel nostalgic because I once had a school trip to a Native American tribe which he purposely organized for us. After stumbling around for hours I ended up in a place where I assumed music and dance would not exist. In the Asian Art section I noticed several Japanese paintings of characters in a familiar story. Noh Dance and The Lion Dance are stories I’ve heard of in my other classes and are closely related to my culture. I did not have a favorite treasure as I walked through the museum or after leaving. The lack of interest affected my mind to choose a bias. Looking back on my list, my favorite treasure would be Bird of Prophecy. This treasure originates from Nigeria in the 16th to 19th century. The Edo people made these instruments using brass and iron. What intrigued me was the lack of strings or stretched fabric that we see in modern day instruments of classical music. Most music used vibrations of strings or an echo chamber to produce