Metropolitan Museum Of Art

On February 14th (yesterday) I visited the Metropolitan Museum Of Art located on 5th Avenue in the heart of New York City. The purpose of my visit was to look at the exhibition that was 'Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection' as a hobby of mine is photography. However, I take a huge interest in all kinds of art and took my time strolling around the various galleries that offer such a diverse heritage of global art. 

Nonetheless, one of the paintings that enticed me most was the Albrecht Durer interpretation of Adam and Eve produced in 1504. Durer was a German artist who was heavily under the influence of Italian theories. He became drawn to the idea that the perfect human form corresponded to a system of proportion and measurements. Furthermore, Durer had a fascination with ideal form is manifest in Adam and Eve. 

Furthermore, in search for the ideal nude, and obsessed with creating a perfect human form based on mathematical proportions, Durer engraved Adam and Eve, "God's own personally made patterns of beauty". The first man and woman are represented in nearly symmetrical idealised poses: each with the weight on one leg, and the other leg bent, and each with one arm angled slightly upward from the elbow. The branch that Adam holds is of the mountain ash, the Tree of Life, while the fig, of which Eve has broken off a branch, is the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. 

The famous Durer engraving is his own representation of what he defines to be the perfect human. For my film trailer, Welcome To Eden it entails the life of 'perfect humans', Adam and Eve in a not so perfect modern-day world. Ular is the character who possesses the perfect attributes in modern-day life with a spoilt and luxurious lifestyle who attempts to lure Eve into his surreal world of wealth and arrogance, resulting in the jealousy of Adam.