museum visit

I chose to go to the De Young museum. I had a good time at the museum looking at all the artwork from different periods in time. I especially liked all the glass work at the museum. Some of the pieces were so colorful and amazing to look at. I remember seeing one piece and it was a bunch of fruits made of glass in this bowl and they looked so good and realistic I wanted to pick one up and eat it. I have always liked seeing art made out of glass and I think the art of glass blowing is really cool. I think it would be awesome to learn how to do that. I always like going to museums and looking at things from the past, it kind of gives you a feel for how things were back then or at least what the time period valued.

blog 8: role of art in society

I believe art definitely has a role in society. To me art is what people use to express themselves. I think art can be anything- it can come in so many forms as well such as music, drawings, photographs, anything. Art can be used to show something that is going on in today's times or in the past or what can even come in the future. Art is all around us. In the newspaper there are comics that relate to the world in the whole political sense. In the past I think art was also used as propaganda because there would be posters of certain things around to try and get people to believe something or do another thing. There are so many murals out there also to describe certain parts of history. I know I've seen murals on the walls of buildings. I use art to escape from whatever stress I have going on in my life and I like to paint and sketch different things.