I told the Artist that his painting was terrible. I think he got the picture

1.  The title of this piece of art is called Purse, and the artist/owner of this piece is un known as it was purchased by  the Judith and Gerson Leiber Fund in 1986, but was later brought to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The purse is elaborately embroidered and has the length size of 5 1/2 inches.


2. The piece of art titled the Purse, comes from the last quarter of 16th century English and represents that era well with the style and detail of the art. During this time period English art was evolving and portrait miniatures began to rise in popularity along with artists designing "decorative objects for the royal household".

3. The subject of this artwork is most simply a purse. This is the "little picture" of the piece and just what viewers see when observing this piece for the first time. There are multiple ideas and concepts that this artwork portrays that lie in its elaborate design and detail about social classes that I will analyze further later on. But this is a non traditional subject for a piece of art in this time period because it is an object rather than an elaborate painting.

4. The Purse is very detailed in its work, and is filled with very neutral and classy colors. The texture of the purse is very rugged but elegant at the dame time. There are many ruffles, flowers, rope, and different embroidering involved in this piece. There are various things going on style wise but they all tie together to form an elegant unique purse.

5. When observing this piece of art the first thing that everyone sees and is meant to see is a purse. A little purse that is a very normal feature or accessory in society throughout many time periods. However the concepts and ideas that this purse represent make it viewed as a piece of art rather than just an object. Due to the class and detail of this work/purse it shows that the woman who had this purse must have been of higher class in society. Because this style was popular in society during that time period, based on the chaos and classiness of the purse it could be interpreted as making commentary of the women of that era. Saying that they can not only be elegant and classy, but also have a rugged/chaotic unique side to them that they could express stylistically. Also due to the fact that these purses were used to hold herbal fragrances to cover nasty odors, it could be said that many women of that time used dresses and beautiful things to cover up ugly things about themselves. Causing a beautiful distraction just like the purse holds a distraction of an ugly odor. I believe the overall purpose of this work was to bottle up the elegance and chaos of the high class society during the late 16th century into one piece of art work, or one object.