I have never been that big into visiting art museums. I just find them kind of boring. I took art in high school and I was actually pretty good. I guess I enjoyed art class at the time, but I could never make it a long time hobby. So when I found out that I was going to the Ball State Art Museum for my english class I didn't really want too. But, I did like that we would be having an actual class though.
When I got to the art museum this morning we go straight to this room where we are all just sitting, waiting on our tour guide to arrive. I stayed up way to late because all I wanted to do was to go back to bed. So I am already kind of in a shitty mood, and to make it even worst my professor informs me that I will be posting a thread on discussion board about what we did today in class. It was just my luck that I get the day when we are on a little fieldtrip. Now I have to pay attention to write this thread when I get back to my room.
During the tour we are planning to look at three pieces of art and discuss each one as we go. I don’t know if I have just matured and enjoy art museums now, but I liked every minute of it. I thought it was fun and interesting. When I left I was trying to figure out when I will have time to go back. This is a change that I never saw coming. I just want to know if me liking a art museum was just a one time thing or if I would like every art museum I go to?
I find that today, almost a week after we went to the museum, I still remember the strategies that Tanya taught us in observing the artwork. I hope I will always remember, for example, that my experience of a piece of art (especially three-dimensional) will change with where I physically stand to observe it.
ReplyDeleteI was standing behind the helmet mask when others in the class described the front of it, so I had their description to compare to what I was seeing. Hearing their description also made me want to walk around front afterward, to see what they had described.
I think that's true of writing too. Seeing a subject or idea from someone else's perspective allows me to see it in a new way and maybe reconsider what I thought about it.