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Admissions Tickets As one of the largest museums in the world, there is enough art [here] to satisfy and teach everyone something they didn’t know before, said Sazeda Kabir 22, regarding The Met.

[Photo] Art, Aesthetics, and Exploration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arianne Browne, Staff Reporter
March 16, 2022
Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art: The Temple of Dendur Art is important because not only does it allow one to express themselves but it can also be used as a record, said Arifa Tasmiya 22 on the importance of cultural art.

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Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art: The Sphinx of Hatshepsut Sazeda Kabir 22 noted the importance of art accessibility and said that many ideas are reinforced and shared through the pieces of art that we see.

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Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art: The Seated Statue of Hatshepsut I think The Met offers a wide variety of collections. Not only do they have paintings and sculptures but there are many historical exhibits that display furniture, pottery, etc, said Arifa Tasmiya 22.

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Admission Tickets As one of the largest museums in the world, there is enough art [here] to satisfy and teach everyone something they didn’t know before, said Sazeda Kabir 22 of The Met.

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Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art: Traveling Boat Being Rowed Arifa Tasmiya 22 noted the importance of inclusivity within art because every culture has its own characteristics and unique aspects of design. Its really intriguing to compare cultures and the differences and similarities between them.

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Paromita Talukder ’22 said “I see faces and objects in random things all the time, from crevices in rocks to the position of windows on a building to the germination pores on coconuts. Sometimes I even come up with stories to fit whatever facial expression I see. I think its so fascinating how humans assign and project man-made constructs in the incidental.”

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Arifa Tasmiya ’22 believes that, when it comes to pareidolia, “there arent many cases where this would be helpful in todays world. Many people dont expect to be in a situation where they need to identify a source of danger.”

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Pareidolia is linked to our familiarity with an object. For example, if we stare at the object for a large amount of time, eventually we start to notice it’s hidden features. Olivia Wronski ’22 thinks that “people see faces in nonhuman objects in life because we look for ourselves in the world around us, which can cause our brains to get creative and pick out faces from patterns.”

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