The Art of the Adventure

Last Thursday I went with Ana to the Neue Pinakothek Museum. Ana is a good friend of this family's and she used to babysit Andrija and Luka. She just graduated from high school and is awaiting to see which college she will attend in September. We spent hours at the museum and wished to stay longer but had to return home. This was an incredible experience! I have never been to museum art gallery like this before. Walking around an art gallery is my new ideal way to spend a rainy day. There was so much history and depth everywhere I looked. It was so nice to be able to appreciate what I saw. This past semester I took an Art History class at A&M and I was suprised by how the course really did help enlighten my perspective for these talents. I hope to see many many more art galleries throughout Europe and anywhere really!

This building, like most of Munich, was partially destroyed in WWII. I stood in a room exactly where a bomb had been dropped. There were pictures on display of what it used to look like. All of the paintings were in safe keeping. It was an eye opening realization of destruction amongst endless walls of talent.

Since by the end Ana and I were in such a rush, we only got to see about half of the paintings there. Thankfully, in our hussle out, we walked into an ordinary room and my heart skipped a beat. I had to catch my breath when I laid eyes on a Vincent Van Gogh original painting from his Sunflower series. Wow. I was stunned. I really felt honored to be in the presence of such a famous work of art. We were very excited. It was hard to hide our smiles when we were looking at this. This one was created in 1888 in France and is apart of the Vase with Twelve Sunflowers collection. Most of these images remain in the same overall layout with minor differences in detail. Van Gogh's trademark technique forever changed the art world; but it's funny because this series was meant to decorate a friend's bedroom. I would love to have one in my room, but I don't have $40 million.

As we were finally able to take our eyes off of this painting, the next room had something else incredible waiting. An original Claude Monet Water Lily painting. Again, Wow. Also apart of a series of many, this was created in 1915 from a backyard garden pond.