I went to the Rubin Museum of Art, and this museum is absolutely stunning and beautiful. I truly was upset that I was only able to stay for half an hour. The mood of the museum and the sense of spirituality that is in the museum really did make me want to stay there and absorb the culture. The mood and the setting (i.e. the lighting) of the museum were absolutely perfect. I do believe that in order to truly feel what the person is trying to portray in their artwork, the setting and the mood and the lighting needs to be perfect; for instance, if the person is trying to portray something sad, there shouldn’t be any bright or happy colors. In the Rubin’s Museum of Art, the light setting was perfect. It gave me that spiritual/meditation feeling.
The art in this museum was quite unique. Usually, in a museum, there would be artworks from Picasso and Van Gogh; however, this museum mainly showed the Southeast Asian culture through statues of gods and goddesses and pictures. I feel that the statues, especially of the gods and goddesses and especially the Tibetan shrine that they had really truly did show the culture in Southeast Asia and what they believed in. I also thought that the way the bodies were positioned and the meanings that each hand movement had was quite unique and interesting.
I’m definitely going back there again some time soon.
