It's just that feeling when you look at an artwork and get flooded with excitement. (Look! Another place where Fern is like a 6 year old in a candy store!) Not to mention awe and glee and inspiration and the desire to create.
Picasso's The Frugal Repast, is one of those works. Look at those varied lines! Look at that gorgeous stylization!
(Okay, so an iPhone in low light makes for a poor image...)
Oddly, I appreciate it more because it reminds me of stylized characters in some awesome 3D animation shorts.
Dr. DeBoer talked about that in 20th Century Art once. We were looking at Matisse's The Red Studio which a lot of people in the class really liked.
But one reason for our appreciation was because it has this quirky 2D animated film vibe. It's like we're better able to appreciate past works because of a current art form that gives us vocabulary, context or something to connect with. There is so much that goes into our experience of an artwork.
Like travel. Or at least, the anticipation of travel...
Next to the exhibition of Picasso and similar artists, SDMA had a special exhibit on the art of Oceania. I'll admit, this grouping of art never grabbed my attention when we studied it in World Art. (With the exception of the slightly sacrilegious enjoyment of a Moai guy Kleenex dispenser where you pulled the Kleenex out of the Easter Island statue's nose. Teehees!)
But here's the thing. Travel makes me far more aware of everything relating to the location I'm going to. All of a sudden, my interest went into overdrive everytime I saw New Zealand or Maori on an art label. And that interest seeps into other artworks in the exhibit so that I pay closer attention to pieces I might normally breeze by.
I think traveling can be truly enriching because it helps to increase and focus my interest and curiosity in directions other than what I'm used to and constantly surrounded by.
Yay travel! Yay art!
And yay for eavesdropping in museums! As one middle aged woman said to another while passing by one piece in the Oceania exhibit: "It's a surfboard!"
Actually ma'am, it's a shield from 19th century Papua New Guinea. But I do like your humor.
Even if she was overdoing the whole bringing in our current experiences to appreciate past artwork...
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Hehe, very nice. I've still yet to take advantage of the free museums. Cursed brain of mine and bad short-term memory. I seem to only remember non-important information. (Well important for me I suppose, but not important to others.) But hey, good that you are noticing pieces that are not the norm for a person. Any interesting pieces, or one that peaked your interest? Also, yay dropping eaves!
In that case, I'll be sure to drag you to a free Tuesday when I get back from traipsing around Oceania. My favorite is the 2nd Tuesday of the month. (The Museum of Photographic Arts is splended!) Next in line, the 3rd Tuesday which includes SDMA.
Also, it's not that I noticed pieces that were not the norm for people in general. They're just pieces that normally wouldn't make me stop for a deeper interaction when I'm walking through a museum. There were a few that I quite enjoyed but describing them would do no justice to them. So guess what you should be doing on October 20th? (i.e. the next free 3rd Tuesday.)
HA!!!
Don't you just love the San Diego Art Museum? I know I loved it...
And art museums are TOTALLY like candy shops... It's exciting and wondrous and the guards who tell you you can't take pictures and you must wear your shoes at all times are like that annoying shop owner who always pops in when you are about to sample the goodies...
Haha... k then. We shall see if you HAVE the capabilities to drag me to said places. Lol jk, but yeah sounds fun. I would most definitely go, if I could that is. Starting next week I will be busy Tues-Wed-Thurs so no can do on going there. Do have Mon and Fri off though, so thats fun. 4 day weekend!!!
Heehee! I was a good little girl and asked if I could take a picture even though the label clearly did NOT have a no pictures sign on it. I am a rule follower at the core, what can I say.
And I STILL felt guilty about having my camera out and snapping away in an art museum. It's like if I were to go into a gallery and start a yell-conversation. Ooh ooh ooh, we should totally do that. As in be the artist that tells the audience somehow to have loud obnoxious convos in the gallery and see if anyone can buck their ingrained gallery etiquette.
And Josue, next Tuesday is a no go for me dragging you anywhere anyway since I'm going to be in a freakin plane over the Pacific Ocean! Whoootaaa!
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