Mint Museum Visit

There was a lot of  creative outside the box art inside of the Mint Museum, the experience was different than i expected it to be. It was my first time going to the museum but it turned out being very interesting and i actually enjoyed the experience.There were a lot of dark paintings that had very deep meanings behind them and there were some that just were artists expressing their creativity. While viewing the art I wondered what motivated these artists to create these pieces of art. Was it based off things they have been through ? Or things created by imagination? There seemed to be a lot of conflict in these photos, they were not just ordinary photos they all had deep messages behind them.While reading the descriptions of the pieces, I tried to view them as if I was the artists. I began to think outside of the box about certain pieces and really wonder what the message behind each one was. Art to me is a way of expressing feelings through drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc. While creating art you can portray your feelings/emotions by creating what comes to mind. You can think it means one thing but it will mean something totally different, that is the beauty of art you never know what to expect. I thought I knew what some of the pieces meant just by viewing them but when I actually read the descriptions they had a totally different meaning than what I anticipated The piece of art that caught my eye the most was the one of the woman who appeared to be a woman mixed with a monkey carrying her child, when I approached the piece it was a little disturbing but as I observed it harder it grew on me and became my favorite piece in the whole museum do to the hard work and detail that was put into it.