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This was really weird. Some of the paintings were really weird. I remember one of them was a painting of a woman or a man with really big man boobs sitting in a wheelchair. There were also a lot of paintings of naked men and women, giving me the impression that these artists were either weird as hell or just perverted. All of the paintings seemed the exact same to me, and they weren’t all that interesting. In fact I remember only seeing a few paintings that actually had color in them, real talk. However, it was free and close to school so I can’t complain all that much.

The Ruben Museum was very interesting. A lot of the artwork was very intricate and awe inspiring. I expected to just go, walk around and leave after about five minutes but I ended up staying about 45 minutes just looking at the artwork and reading all the artwork descriptions. In one of the paintings there was a step by step process showing how the intricate portrait was made, it all began as geometry. The ancient monks would use the geometry to make everything asymmetrical and the larger the paintings got the less geometry was used. This was because as the monk would progress in talent the less and less he would need to rely on the geometry and could freehand. Eventually, no geometry was used. There was also a step by step procedure showing how metal casting of gods and goddesses were made. They first started by molding the wax, then they would pour clay to make the mold and then pour the metal to make the statue, finally painting the gold masterpieces. It was very intriguing and as much as I wasn’t looking forward to having to do yet another thing for freshman seminar I’m glad I went.