The other day we visited the Rubin Museum of Art. It honestly would not be my first choice of museums to visit but I actually really enjoy going to museums and looking at exhibits and art. All the art pieces reminded me of my visit to Thailand and Hong Kong a few years ago. The mediums and color schemes that were used in the paintings shrines, and other pieces really brought back memories of all the art work from those two countries. The combination of gold and red specifically reminded me of the various shrines around Hong Kong where people would light up incents and pray in front of them.
What was interesting about the art work was that every piece used the same elements. There was texture in all of them and you could tell that the detail on the artwork was extremely precise. There was one piece that caught my attention, it reminded me of the prints that I had done in my art course in a way. There were multiple replicas of the same figure around the border of the painting and for the most part all of the figures were the same, but they did have slightly different expressions. Towards the bottom the figures were changed a bit. There were a few that resembled some sort of bad spirits or devils maybe. The middle of the painting depicted gods in different actions or forms. Its nice to look at art from different cultures because you can make connections of how every culture is related in a way. There are many similarities.
