Art to Go: Week 6

I was out sick for most of the week, but that didn't stop me from working on my script revisions for the tour. There I was in my hospital bed, looking like a maniac hovered over my mom's laptop with a microcassette recorder to my ear, which I rewound noisily over and over again as I tried to make out what my buddy from the museum had said about the triptych panels in the West Gallery. That thing squeals like a mouse in a paper shredder when it rewinds, and I bet it drove the whole floor nuts. I got a lot of work done and my nurse looked like a younger Sarah Silverman, so all in all it was a productive stay.

I read through the relevant sections of Annotated Mona Lisa to prepare for my revisions. I learned a lot about the difference between Renaissance art and the stuff before it. Renaissance stuff is rounder and more lifelike, due to a better understanding of human anatomy. Also, they were a lot better at painting perspective. Before this, all I knew about the Renaissance was that it happened a long time ago and that the Ninja Turtles were named after Renaissance artists.

I also went to the museum to take another look at the West Gallery and Bay 5. I'm glad I looked at the West Gallery again, because I somehow had every one of my dates wrong. Also I was able to find some examples of pre-Renaissance art to mention in my script. Bay 5 is going to be difficult to write about. Or maybe not. I think it's all post-modern stuff, so I guess I can talk about post-modernism. Whatever that is. I need to remember to talk to somebody who knows something about this.