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| Houston Museum of Fine Arts |
What is art exactly? If you ask a group of people to point out art, the answer would be different for each person. The Houston Museum of Fine Arts has something for everyone. If you like sculptures of larger than life sized naked men with small penises, oil paintings, watercolors, very old fragile books, or beautiful Egyptian artifacts, this place has something for you. Some of the pieces were so intriguing that you wanted to take a closer look, but didn't get too close because the MFA police will quickly tell you, “twelve inches back please”. They take their jobs very seriously.
I thought that the painting The Elder Sister by William Bouguereau was stunning. Her eyes followed you in any direction that you moved to. The colors were somewhat muted but even still, the picture was beautiful. She seemed to be floating in the middle of the canvas even though you could clearly see that she was sitting on a rock. The sky in the background is vivid; it portrays a very clear sunny day. Despite this fact, the painter decides to use a shade of green that is absolutely drab. I think that his idea was to pull you into the portrait and only see the beauty of the children. Their skin is like porcelain. The use of the colors of their clothes also kept you focusing on the beauty of the little girl in particular. Her skin is flawless and her hair is styled so that you keep gazing at her lovely face.
This was my favorite trip yet simply
because it was amazing to see so much history in one place. It was thrilling to
be amongst so much money. Not being forced to do a traditional tour was awesome.
We were allowed to explore the museum the way we wanted to. This way we saw what
interested us and not anything more. I even talked with some of the other
students in our class and got their opinions of some of the paintings. Hearing
what each person had to say about different works of art made you take another
look at the piece in question to see if you related to their opinion or just
walk away because you thought that they may be from some place other than our
dear planet Earth.
