The MET

Today I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and there was a variety pieces of art that caught my attention but one in particular surprised me. Thomas Hart Benton's America Today was a beautiful work of art as it went around an entire room portraying the labor and work to built America as an industrial country. Benton was born in 1889 and died in 1975, he created this piece of art between 1930-1931. All of the space is being covered with color and details so that it looks more appealing. Also he used eggs specifically the yolk to create a egg tempera paint, and used room sized canvas panels to create his work of art.