Finding Oliver a New Hobby
- Kyra Menzel
- May 24, 2018
- 2 min read
Art has always been something that I have loved. I remember going to my first French Art museum around age ten and being awe struck by everything from Da Vinci to Monet to Degas. There was everything from enormous canvases taking up entire walls and tiny tableaus with the most intricate details.
Painters have a magnificent ability to make the ordinary and mundane seem magical and people to seem other-worldly. I love seeing the changing of styles like medieval and renaissance and realism and impressionism; today we see everything from minimalism to things that I honestly do not understand.
Recently, I have been trying to give modern art a chance. It does not necessarily give a plain story with people and scenes or a vase of flowers like the classics do, but recent pieces of art tell just as much a story as anything else. It is the expression of the world from the point of view of that particular artist.
Yesterday, Oliver and I were trying to come up with something that he could turn into a hobby. One option we came up with was to become more familiar with art. So, once a week we are going to go to the Kunsthistorisches Museum and deeply explore one or two rooms and get to know the art as well as the artists. This week we looked at Tizian, an artist from the 16th century. He was classically trained early on and because of that his paintings all have a fairly similar feel. He influenced artists for centuries after.
In this particular museum, they have an exhibition called the Shape of Time where pieces from the time of Tizian as well as other artists, are shown with works from Picasso and more modern artists. It really plays with your mind at first but I think it is an interesting idea. Art is still art whether it’s 300 years old or 5 days old. To some extent or another todays artists are influenced by past painters and this exhibition gives a tiny taste of that.
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