Thinking back to my high school days, I remembered that visual art of a big part of my academic career. So I decided to go to museum for this blog. I went to the Met with a friend and started getting lost whilst looking for the Rothko paintings. While lost, we managed to get a look at some more classical art, more specifically, Greek art and sculpture. I must admit, I do feel guilty about looking at the fine and classical arts for only a dollar. Even with that dollar, we were able to go in and absorb all of the historical value that was embedded with all of the art.
Entering the museum was a new experience for me, not because I have never been to a museum, but because I had never bothered to go to the gift shop. Never had i seen people so willing to buy such simple objects for such a high amount of money. After that we went to see the Greek art, but on the way there I couldn’t help but notice a figure that looked like a cross. So I took my picture with that. I didn’t bother to look at the name of the work of art. So we looked at the sculptures and all of that non sense, and then we remembered that we went to that museum for Rothko paintings.
It took us a little while to find a Rothko painting and recollected the fact that we had to stand very close to the painting and stare at it to have a religious experience of sort. So there I was, just standing there, for ten minutes. Nothing. I have heard of someone that broke down crying when looking at this painting, so I was kinda of disappointed. Mistakes were made on my part. Still a worth while experience, going to that museum.
