When Bryan's mom came to Amsterdam we spent a day at the Rijksmuseum. Every time we've been in Amsterdam it's been closed for renovation so this was the first time for us all. The art was amazing! I've always really admired Dutch art, it has a special quality to it that I can't describe, as I'm not educated in art appreciation. Sometimes it's so vivid and colorful...
Even when everyone in the painting is wearing puritan uniforms, it's still interesting...
There are more than just paintings in the museum, there are a lot of artifacts. This is one room of an immense dollhouse. You get up on a stepladder to peer into the rooms with all the perfectly made, tiny furniture and teeny tiny delftware.
This was one of my favorites, the light looked so real...
It was at the Rijksmuseum that I decided I really hate modern art. After seeing the amazing works of the Dutch masters we went up to the contemporary exhibit where we encountered random junk made of wires and this monstrosity:
It's a vagina couch and it's just so damn ugly. Maybe I'm unrefined and troglodytic but I don't understand what qualifies this as art, modern or otherwise. Can I just throw poop at a dartboard and qualify as a modern artist? What does this vagina mean?! It isn't even an accurate representation. It also looked really grimy and musty, like something you would find in a creepy uncle's fetid garage. Seeing works by Vermeer and Rembrandt in the same building as this grotesque eyesore makes me worry about the human race.
a great piece of art i must say!
ReplyDeletethat museum is too damn big, just as rent is too damn high.
I thought that was contextually abrupt as well.
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