Art Museum VisitEssay Preview: Art Museum VisitReport this essayI went to the San Diego Museum of Art. They had all kinds of art from different time periods from different parts of the world. They had a special exhibition on Indian art and a gallery of photos about the history of America.
At first I went to Asian art section, which had some stuff from Japan and a sculptures related to Buddhism. There was this collection of swords that I found kind of interesting. A piece (painting?) by Yoshitoshi Mori caught my eye, it was called Warrior on a Horse. I liked it because the horse looked very “cartoony”. I think it was because the eyes were rather large.
I went into another room with European art. The portraits I saw really put mine to shame, but there were plenty of ridiculously pale women and children back then. There was a panel called Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine with Saints and Angels by a workshop called the Master of Frankfurt. I thought the angels wings looked neat, it nice to see something different than the traditional white wings. I also saw this painting by Francisco de Zurbaran called Lamb of God. It was a depiction of a lamb tied up with a halo around its head. I really liked the concept of that. I also liked Daniel Seghers Garland of Flowers with the Holy Family. It looks like memorial for the Holy Family, or a grave marker. I just think it looks pretty.
Hollywood: Hometown
Marlins, Texas, California, USA, September 4, 1996, 7:30 EDT
We’ve just watched a trailer of a movie that was part drama with a scene about a boy growing up in the West Coast. I thought, this is very strange in a religious sense but also a religious part. It was very dark and dramatic. Some of the imagery in there might be a Christian version of this, but it was all about the boy and what happened to a place called Texas. All the elements of it are very religious and very Christian, and all kind of the same for a movie or a movie for a boy. I thought the scene was very very religious and very, very dark. It was very moving and very disturbing. The whole thing kind of had this light, that kind of light that might be different from what you see in TV.
You go into a theater, you see the first play, you see the second, and then you see the third play, and you have this huge, huge, huge scene, where three-dimensional men sit around the table with women playing cards. I thought the thing about that was that that is the kind of movie where this is about a boy growing old, in a dark situation which gets very dark at first. It was very dark and very disturbing. Not one of them is Jewish, just a couple in particular, with very bright, dark emotions and religious themes. And they are playing on the television, and they are playing there until it becomes so dark that all are sitting around their benches and they get scared. So, the audience can’t watch this show, not with this same kind of feeling. It’s more like an emotional drama. And that can be quite the strange act.
The trailer is very dark, it has too many images, it has the kind of religious themes, and the stuff happens as soon as you get the character to what he is like or in what kind of place. We actually got a sense of things that happened here. I really thought about that and thought it was really great. He was a boy in the way I thought his world was. But at the same time, the whole premise in the movie seems to be, he is growing up in a dark situation, and he can hardly understand what is going on. He can barely understand the way this has happened and how it can happen in this world. That it is the way they see things, that things happen. And you can watch scenes on camera and think, Wow, he isn’t that good. And so, I really started to wonder if I could get a sense of why we put the kids to that sort of stuff.
I like things to get darker and darker if I can get that sense of that. Not only the horror element in
Hollywood: Hometown
Marlins, Texas, California, USA, September 4, 1996, 7:30 EDT
We’ve just watched a trailer of a movie that was part drama with a scene about a boy growing up in the West Coast. I thought, this is very strange in a religious sense but also a religious part. It was very dark and dramatic. Some of the imagery in there might be a Christian version of this, but it was all about the boy and what happened to a place called Texas. All the elements of it are very religious and very Christian, and all kind of the same for a movie or a movie for a boy. I thought the scene was very very religious and very, very dark. It was very moving and very disturbing. The whole thing kind of had this light, that kind of light that might be different from what you see in TV.
You go into a theater, you see the first play, you see the second, and then you see the third play, and you have this huge, huge, huge scene, where three-dimensional men sit around the table with women playing cards. I thought the thing about that was that that is the kind of movie where this is about a boy growing old, in a dark situation which gets very dark at first. It was very dark and very disturbing. Not one of them is Jewish, just a couple in particular, with very bright, dark emotions and religious themes. And they are playing on the television, and they are playing there until it becomes so dark that all are sitting around their benches and they get scared. So, the audience can’t watch this show, not with this same kind of feeling. It’s more like an emotional drama. And that can be quite the strange act.
The trailer is very dark, it has too many images, it has the kind of religious themes, and the stuff happens as soon as you get the character to what he is like or in what kind of place. We actually got a sense of things that happened here. I really thought about that and thought it was really great. He was a boy in the way I thought his world was. But at the same time, the whole premise in the movie seems to be, he is growing up in a dark situation, and he can hardly understand what is going on. He can barely understand the way this has happened and how it can happen in this world. That it is the way they see things, that things happen. And you can watch scenes on camera and think, Wow, he isn’t that good. And so, I really started to wonder if I could get a sense of why we put the kids to that sort of stuff.
I like things to get darker and darker if I can get that sense of that. Not only the horror element in
I didnt really find the Photo Gallery on America that interesting. It was called “Changing America”. Im very critical on photographs, it doesnt take that much skill to press a button, and the picture is a perfect representation of what you are trying to depict. So I better be totally blown away by the subject of the photograph. Some photos seem to do their job; they did capture the essence of the time. But others I looked at just made me say, “what??”
Another room featured only landscapes and cityscapes. I prefer landscapes/cityscapes to be without people. I dont know why, I just like it like that. I also prefer photos I take when I go on vacation to be without people, drives my mom nuts. But anyways, in the room of 15 works, only one was without people, and it wasnt really that great a scene.
I went into the gallery of American paintings, and saw this really nice landscape of a volcano. It was called Sandwich Islands, done by Jules Taverner.