MS Students at the Met

Earlier this spring, the 7th and 8th grade Visual Arts Majors visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the highlights were miniature prints by the recently rediscovered Dutch master Hercules Segers, which echoed the lessons students gained in their class unit on drypoint etching, a form of printmaking related to Seger's techniques, and carved marble sculptures of ancient Greek and Rome, which they appreciated in part because of the work don this year on ceramic relief portraiture partially inspired by ancient sculptures.

The Met is the largest art museum in the United States containing over two million works of art in its permanent collection. Other highlights from the trip included twenty-five foot tall Bis poles of the Asmat people of New Guinea, Renaissance painting, a 360 degree mural by American painter Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, enjoying ice cream on the iconic front steps of the museum on Fifth Avenue.

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MS Students at the Met

Hackley School