{"id":2259,"date":"2018-07-09T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2018-07-16T15:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T19:07:02","slug":"art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/2018\/07\/09\/art\/","title":{"rendered":"Art!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I consider myself something of an art connoisseur. In the third grade I sculpted and painted a clay penguin, which was labeled as \u201csatisfactory\u201d by the teacher. I once received an A in a high school art history class. I could offer a convincing, and at least partially accurate, definition of the term \u201cthree-point perspective.\u201d I mention these momentous accomplishments not to be braggadocious\u2014though I can see how it would come off that way\u2014but as an introduction to this blog post, which will focus on the art of this city.<\/p>\n

In an effort to prove ourselves to be intellectual, several of my friends and I decided this week to go to a museum. And, after my suggestion of the BMW Museum was shot down for lack of intellectual rigor, we decided on the Neue Pinakothek<\/em>, a renowned art museum here in Munich.<\/p>\n

After several rooms of many paintings and even some sculptures, I found myself drawn to one painting in particular.<\/p>\n

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not that one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The painting of which I am writing was in the penultimate room of this museum. It was a seemingly insignificant painting. Large brush strokes. Simple colors. A commonplace subject.<\/p>\n

It was a vase of sunflowers. I couldn\u2019t figure out why I was so drawn to this specific piece of art. And then it hit me: sunflowers are one of my top 5 favorite kinds of flowers! Also the painter sounded kind of familiar. It was a Dutch fellow by the name of Vincent van Gogh. I sure hope he lived a long and happy life surrounded by people who appreciated his talent for painting!<\/p>\n

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The aforementioned painting of sunflowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To offer a conclusion, I would like to mention my appreciation for the fact that a city like Munich offers many different kinds of fun and engagement, including but not limited to the following: intellectual, athletic, nightlife-related, and cultural.<\/p>\n

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In awe of the size of this painting, absolute unit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I consider myself something of an art connoisseur. In the third grade I sculpted and painted a clay penguin, which was labeled as \u201csatisfactory\u201d by the teacher. I once received an A in a high school art history class. I could offer a convincing, and at least partially accurate, definition of the term \u201cthree-point perspective.\u201d … Continue reading Art!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33399,290963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-sla-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}