My Visit To The Leepa-Rattner Museum Of Art

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On my visit to the Leepa-Rattner museum of fine art. I was intrigued to experience art in a museum for the first time, it wasn't what I was expecting from a museum but it most definitely broadened my horizons and left me with a sense of inspiration. I explored the halls and corridors of the museum, looking at each piece and deciphering its message for me. Until finally coming along a long stretch into a narrow hall, which then turned into a small room. I was in awe observing the painting before me. I looked at its description and it read “Esfinge dentro del aqua” or “the sphinx in the water” by Tomas Marias a Cuban/American that was born 1931 and died in 2004.
The spectacular piece was created in Tampa in the 1980s. It was designed with oil on canvas. Esfinge dentro del aqua or the sphinx in the water is an iconic artwork. Its sleek appearance and well detailed environment grabs an observer and demands attention. To describe the painting it is what appears to be an Egyptian woman of high status in a large body of water, what could be the Nile river. The reason I say high status is because she is clothed in exquisite gold and jewels hanging tight across her neck and forehead, other than that she looks to be completely nude suspended angelically in the flowing water. What strikes her as odd and what makes a observer wonder is that she has elegant pink wings strapped to her back that induce a magic that is nonhuman. Her breast and voluptuous hips precede the water and since the painting is called the sphinx in the water I will assume that her body is actually a lioness. Such art that incorporates these animal like features is called anthropomorphism.
The unknown woman or animal is strikingly beautiful, her face along with her body...

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...e familiar with when examining many other tribes and civilization throughout class.
The two pieces of art connect with one another in that they both exhibit a powerful woman. In her prime of life. Both woman exude fertility in that they are voluptuous with hips wide and breast drooping. Both woman have a feel of god like status in our eyes by wearing of the headdress we can infer, both bringing wealth, prosperity and greatness to their worshipers. They bring fruit to the land and with that life. The two works of art show the power of a deity through a medium that can be seen by us. I believe that even though one modern and the other ancient. They both would have had a strong grip of believe in the people of history. Pieces of art like these give power to woman and remind us that matriarchal power was once the way of life and these two pieces proclaim just that.

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