Brooklyn Museum

Like I mentioned today in class, for some reason i seemed to have this strange bias against going to the Brooklyn museum. I think it was because i felt that there would be no art that would grab my attention or that since there was an assignment that I had to do, it would not be possible for me to take a moment and enjoy the paintings.
I was very impressed by the Egyptian section (I’m a sucker for anything ancient) and I had enjoy many of the paintings and had really warmed up to the place. My group and I had already completed a discussion about one of the Egyptian sarcophagi and were on our way to pick out another thing to talk about when we were all struck by one painting. It depicted three french peasant women walking away from a field after a hard day of work with the sun setting behind them. The painting was right after the revolution that occurred in the 1850’s, which had finally put an end to monarchy in France. We decided that we should record another discussion. I do not want to say that when we discussed the Egyptian sarcophagus that we were simply making up stuff in order to complete the assignment. We genuinely felt that it was a noteworthy piece of art and many of the points that we brought up were real, but when we discussed this painting we never felt like we needed to find something else to keep talking about. I think that we could have gone on and on talking about this painting but after we finished recording, we looked at it for another second in silent admiration, and continued on our way.
Overall I really enjoyed the experience and I know that I will definitely return to the Brooklyn Museum.