Zimmeril visit

Although I am not always able to have time to go to New York to go visit the art galleries in the MOMA, Chelsea and etc... This week I was able to visit my local museum which is the museum and look at a few works of art there. I checked out some of the galleries like the Russian Art, Non-Conformist Art from the Soviet Union, American Art 18th to 20th Century and etc.

One piece that I liked in one of the galleries was this painting by Albert Bierstadt, called Buffalo Hunter. Bierstadt from what I read was often famous for his unique portrayal of nature and the perspective of landscapes. Bierstadt’s painting of the Buffalo Hunter is 4 x 3 in size created in 1888, and portrayed an Indian hunter on a horse on a vase area of land hunting a single buffalo. Bierstadt’s Buffalo Hunter displays an idealized picture of bravery, adventure and the cliche of a form of example of a male gender role as man being the hunter. Often at times society have been taught to see men as the hunter and provider while women are the nurturers. Although there are no women in this painting one still can see the image and get a sense of the gender role of a man. From looking at this image one sees the sense of landscape with the grass and clouds in the foreground along with the hunter and the buffalo, and in the background the Rocky Mountains and other buffaloes. The image of the hunter and the buffalo is very theatrical and shows action and adventure within the piece.