Friday, September 3, 2010

My first visit to High Museum of Art

So I finally went to the High Museum of art today, and to be honest I really wasn't expecting anything out of it since I am not artistic at all. But surprisingly, I actually find many of the art objects in there fairly interesting. Especially the painting above, The Maximum Speed of Raphael’s Madonna. At first when I look at it, I thought it was just a bunch of spheres arranged in a rectangle, but as I look closely at it I begin to see eyes, lips and an image of a face begin to emerge from the chaotic arrangements of spheres. At that point I was already standing in front of this painting for about 4 minutes, and I think that's the most time I have ever spent on a piece of art work. The more time I spend on this painting the more I discover. I notice that at the bottom of the face, there are a series of crosses, lines and mini spheres, and I realized that it was a necklace. Even though I don't really understand the actual meaning of this painting, the creativity of this painting definitely impressed me. In fact this painting might have opened my mind to the world of art, and so maybe next time when I look at a piece of art, I will actually analyze it and not fall asleep.

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