Blog #2 – Academic

Personally, I do not like museums and I don’t think that MOMA changed that but I definitely do see them in a different light. The first few galleries were annoying to me and I already wanted to leave. I was super confused as to how people viewed the most random things as art. Louise Bourgeois had some really weird sculptures and paintings, there was one of a huge spider on a cage which was the sculpture and squiggled lines with rocks which was a painting. None of it made sense to me and I refused to look at this stuff as art. Next, we went to another gallery which was much more intriguing. The paintings had much more detail and actually jumped out at me, like it was alive. But then my hopes were dropped again when we went to the next gallery and there were crushed automobile parts all put together which was considered to be art. At this point, I was ready to give up but I decided to give one more gallery a chance and it changed the way I would view and appreciate art. This is where all the big names came out. I was standing in front of Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and the Claude Monet painting called Water Lilies. These two pieces blew my mind. It was simple yet detailed and beautiful. They had a certain vibe, like these artists emitted something greater to me than the other less famous artists in the museum. It was crazy when I was standing in front of Starry Night, it was like wow, this is 100 million dollars right here. My favorite paintings however were by Henri Rousseau called “The Dream” and “The Sleeping Gypsy.” These paintings had animals in them which is probably why I liked them more than the other ones but they were just beautiful pieces.

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