This is it. This is the reason why I wanted to start a blog. A beautiful painting that I have seen for many months. But let me give you some background first........
As many of you may know, I attend Cal State Northridge and am in the process of completing my last and final semester of school for my Bachelor's degree (yes!). Since I have been going to CSUN since 2008, I have passed this painting at the library. But the painting was not just in the main lobby, it happened to be located in the........BASEMENT!
Overall, this painting reminds me that art can be very powerful. It can make a person stop in their tracks, stare and think. With our world so busy today, I like the fact that there are some things in life that I am allowed to take my time with.
Let me know some of your favorite paintings and where you saw them. It just may inspire you to go out and buy an expensive phone just so you can blog about it, like I did! :)
Arianne!! I love that you are starting a blog. YAY! Personally I love going to art museums and looooved going to the MET in NYC. (Pre-kids of course), but I've considered taking Tyler to the Getty. Anyway - one of my most memorable art moments is at the MET and I saw this Monet that made me stop in my tracks. It's called Water Lily Pond and Bridge. Anyway, I had always thought that Monet was so popular and cliche and everyone loved him, so he wasn't necessarily a favorite of mine. But seeing this painting and having that reaction made me realize WHY he was so popular. It was awesome and made me stay, and stare, and look and think and imagine and all those things. It was a very cool experience.
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Yeah, Arianne! You started a blog! Welcome to the blogging world. So excited! Pam told me you had started it and then she told me I needed to look at facebook more because I would have known had I looked at facebook.
ReplyDeleteI use to live in Holland. My Mom would take us to tons of museums and I remember being blown away when I saw the Van Goghs in person. Stunning and beautiful! There's a reason, like Beth said with Monet, that they're so popular, but you just can't help but join the crowd.
One time we were in Oregon for a trip and Dan and I went to a little art store. I saw this painting --- it was more of a print on a weood block. It was Japanese and I loved it. It just "spoke" to me as they say. It was $100. I had never bought a piece of art in my life and that was expensive to me, but I loved it so much and now it hangs in our living room.