June 9, 2011  |
| Lady peeking through an art piece in the atrium of the art museum in Prague |
Our tour began with an emphasis from the tour guide on the functionality of the museum. She encouraged us to look around and notice that absolutely no excess decoration had been placed in the museum. For whatever reason, I guess she didn't notice that every single gallery had accent walls. For all my life, I've been taught that galleries should only have white walls to accurately display the artist's intentions and allow the viewer to perceive the work in the purest form. I guess the Czechs disagree. I'm semi-appalled by this, but I'm not a curator, so what do I know.
Anyways, milling through the gallery we covered a majority of your standard art museum work: some Van Gogh, Picasso, Seurat and the like. There was also a pretty significant section on industrial design, which I thought was pretty cool. Displaying models of famous buildings and archetypes of things like telephones, the industrial design portion was quite extensive. Finally, on the "international artist" section, which actually meant Modern art, in my book, there was a wide range of art evoking the usual confusion modern art is so famous for. Video projections, installations and the traditional painting/sculpture/etc. covered the gallery walls.
Overall, there were a couple pieces I found intriguing. I really like the design of the large installation in the middle of the atrium, though I'm not 100% sure it was actually art and not the non-decoration-decoration the tour guide referenced. I took this photo because this exhibit was probably my favorite, and I liked the contrast of the woman's blue shirt in the mostly-white museum.
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