museum experience part 2

I can add my trip to the High with my group members today to my list of museum experiences and one that I enjoyed. Going to the museum with fellow peers definitely made the trip a pleasant experience because as I mentioned before, I feel extremely out of place in art museums, like I shouldn't be there. But today, I had a purpose for being there and knowing there were others in the same boat assured me I didn't just stroll into a museum by accident.

The Titian exhibit, for those of you who visited already, are paintings and drawings from the mid 1500's that includes mostly religious human subjects. This was vastly different from where I spent most of my time during my previous trip to the High which was on the 3rd floor looking at modern and contemporary art. Christina already beat me to blogging about our adventure today but one big difference I too noticed right away was the color of the wall: Titian exhibit- red, contemporary permanent collection- white. This popular museum trend of "white spaces" is something I accepted as the norm for museums because that's pretty much all I've been exposed to in my lifetime experience of museums. So the red today was different. In retrospect, if Titian's Diana paintings were displayed on white walls, it wouldn't have worked out as well as it did with the red walls. Why? Because his subjects are fair skinned and light so there's a definite contrast that exists between the color of the subjects and the color of the wall that garners my attention as a spectator. I like to believe that is a good thing.

red wall