Tuesday, April 15, 2008

My U-Museum

The glory of my U-Museum is that it will be dedicated fully to the celebration of the kind of beauty and wonder that is only felt when looking at truly amazing works of art. The entirety of my museum will be one large square room, each wall representing a different artist, but all connected through their ability to escape from the real world into the emotional outcry of Impressionism. One wall will be for Monet, one Renoir, one Van Gogh, and one Degas. Everywhere you look there will be astounding beauty, the kind of art that makes you stand back and think about life and love for hours on end. Renoir's "The Dancer", with her childlike grace and fragility, will make you long for that period of playful innocence. Degas's numerous paintings of ballet dancers, albeit now grown women, will make you appreciate the female form for its lines and natural beauty. Van Gogh's shocking swirling colors will make you think of the chaos of the world, and yet how it somehow all makes sense in the end, and Monet's gorgeous sunrises and city landscapes will make you weep with the desire to explore every inch of the outside world. Each brushstroke will encompass some hidden desire, or hope, or dream that you have had at one point or another in your life, and these emotions will be overwhelming, which is exactly why only one room is needed to provoke the necessary response. No modern art will exist in my museum, only that which is classically beautiful and intriguing will have a place on my great walls.

1 comment:

Scott Lankford said...

25 points. I'll give you full points for this first assignment, Anna, but I can't say this fits the prompt well at all. Yes, I see you have an "intellectual passion" for impressionist art, but what of your other passions, interests, obsessions, and pursuits. And is your poor bereft and broken-hearted English teacher to understand that there is not one single book, poem, play, or short story within the entire confines of your Museum?