Kimberly
It
pleases me to know that I am so privileged to see so many different
works of art in real life. Yet there are only a few that stay with
me. As a regular visitor of museums and booklover it makes it even
harder to remember everything.
Vincent Van Gogh - View of Arles
When
seeing a work of art for the first time my first instinct is to
examine it, I need to know what I am seeing. This is something that I
struggle with, it's almost impossible to do this with every work in a
museum. Every museum has it's own relatively large collection which
makes it impossible to view everything in one visit. This gives me a
longing to keep visiting the same museum over and over again.
So
that's what I did, this summer I went on a road trip through Germany
and Austria. One of the museums that I visited, for the third time
now, is the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.
Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers
A
work in their collection of which I remember my first impression of
is one of Vincent Van Gogh. More specific, the Sunflowers.
I wasn't a Van-Gogh-lover, until I
had the chance to see his work up close, 4 years ago. The way he
transfers his paint onto the canvas is extraordinary, I love the
thickness of it all. Knowing he was such a tortured soul, it is
remarkable how he made such colourful work.
Gustav Klimt - Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
My
vision of museums has changed a lot over the past years. As a regular
visitor of museums, I start to notice so many different things which
I wouldn't have a few years ago. This brings me to the moment when I
was walking around in the Neue Pinakothek and I noticed that some
visitors weren't admiring the paintings as much as they deserve. Some
people didn't even look at them, but they immediately took a picture
and walked on. It almost breaks my heart to see how they (don't)
interact with these works of art. Nowadays it's all about 'I
went on a trip and I visited a lot of popular museums and made a
selfie everywhere. Look how cool I am.'. It's
a fact that museums are getting more popular and I am not
complaining, it keeps them from being deserted. But there is a limit to everything. There are so many
things I can say about this topic but it would be way too much to
share, I might write some more in future posts.
Gustav Klimt - Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
Now,
back to my visit. It
would be almost impossible to forget this visit. First of all, I
really like the person who was with me. Second, I like the fact that
I got to visit this museum with a more developed point of view than
four years ago. There are so many reasons, but there's one story in
particular that makes it almost unforgettable. I would love to share
this story with you.
Try
to picture this. It was almost the end of our visit, only one more room to go. We were standing in a smaller room, admiring a
beautiful work by Gustav Klimt. When all of a sudden we hear a loud unexpected noise, a fart. We both turned around very quickly and saw a middle
aged asian man leaving the room. We caught him in the act and he had
absolutely no expression on his face. No other visitor responded
to this incident. This little incident surely made this visit
memorable.
If you love museums and you are planning on going on a road trip through Germany, you should definitely make a stop in the Neue Pinakothek. You won't regret it. ;-)
If you love museums and you are planning on going on a road trip through Germany, you should definitely make a stop in the Neue Pinakothek. You won't regret it. ;-)
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Kimberly
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