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I started this course with zero knowledge about art, so the book we read, Understanding the Art Museum, was all new information to me. I like art--I just spent like three minutes staring at the cover of the "Dream Warriors" 12", and we have some killer matador paintings in our house--I've just never taken an art history/appreciation class. The book was awesome: short, easy to read, like a Dummies book in sixty pages. I now know all about art museums, from the stuff on the information cards to the reasoning behind how they hang things. Also, I have a basic idea of how to look at art, and could probably fake my way through a discussion about it with a smart guy.
We went to the museum, where I actually took a good look at a lot of stuff for the first time. The wife and I have a lot of scary Jesus stuff around the house, so I was way into the creepy religious room. That poor dude on the griddle belongs in my front bathroom. I like it how every martyred person is posing with their method of execution. I saw a lot of other stuff I liked throughout the museum, especially the ethnographic room. After having read that book, I was able to appreciate the stuff I didn’t like a little more than I would have before. Like all of that Jackson Pollock, paint sprayed everywhere stuff, or any kind of different colored shapes painting. Now I know to pay attention to the way the colors are balanced, and can appreciate the effort behind that. I'll stick with my matadors, though.
Besides learning about art, we also did some group activities to get to know each other. I’m really worried that everyone is going to get along too well and the documentary is gonna be crappy. I don’t know why I so badly want this to turn into one of those ugly-ass VH1 reality shows, but I do, I really do, and I may just have to poop in somebody’s purse and blame it on somebody else.
I started this course with zero knowledge about art, so the book we read, Understanding the Art Museum, was all new information to me. I like art--I just spent like three minutes staring at the cover of the "Dream Warriors" 12", and we have some killer matador paintings in our house--I've just never taken an art history/appreciation class. The book was awesome: short, easy to read, like a Dummies book in sixty pages. I now know all about art museums, from the stuff on the information cards to the reasoning behind how they hang things. Also, I have a basic idea of how to look at art, and could probably fake my way through a discussion about it with a smart guy.
We went to the museum, where I actually took a good look at a lot of stuff for the first time. The wife and I have a lot of scary Jesus stuff around the house, so I was way into the creepy religious room. That poor dude on the griddle belongs in my front bathroom. I like it how every martyred person is posing with their method of execution. I saw a lot of other stuff I liked throughout the museum, especially the ethnographic room. After having read that book, I was able to appreciate the stuff I didn’t like a little more than I would have before. Like all of that Jackson Pollock, paint sprayed everywhere stuff, or any kind of different colored shapes painting. Now I know to pay attention to the way the colors are balanced, and can appreciate the effort behind that. I'll stick with my matadors, though.
Besides learning about art, we also did some group activities to get to know each other. I’m really worried that everyone is going to get along too well and the documentary is gonna be crappy. I don’t know why I so badly want this to turn into one of those ugly-ass VH1 reality shows, but I do, I really do, and I may just have to poop in somebody’s purse and blame it on somebody else.
