The San Antonio Museum of Art first opened its doors to the public in the year 1981. Families, college and high school students, children, teachers, volunteers, or anyone visiting San Antonio, has the chance to go and view the works of art because it is opened to the community. It has several different forms of art, which include Asian and Latin art, sculptures, art that has a background meaning to it or is from an illustration, photography, Greek, Latin, and European monuments, and Chinese ceramics. When visiting, I found many of the paintings and sculptures, to be either black and white, extremely colorful, or being displayed with light colors. Most of the works of art, were quiet, affectionate, had a touch of friendliness, active, and relaxed, but overall I found a couple exhibits to be very remarkable, because of their prehistoric age. Some of the collections were also sketches from books that had been written, old art, outdoor sculptures, American art, and the works by various artists of both current and artists from the earlier period who have already passed away.
The European Art seemed to catch my attention very quick because it looked as if it were a family full of young women who were sitting down and praising each other for the great possessions they had in their lives. This piece of artwork was done by Elizabeth Huth Coates and is known to have been a 19th century painting which has made millions and millions of dollars. These relatives are being gathered around in a circle, and the most striking point was that, three of them are not wearing much clothing, but the other three young women are covered in clothing that is exceedingly colorful. This photograph is painted in such a way that it looks so real because it looks like families in today’s world, who sit around and associate with one another for all the great effects that are taking place in their days. My overall feelings toward this picture were those of love, passion and appreciation.
The exhibition, The Colors of Wrath, was also pleasurable because it shows the image of a monkey and what it enjoys doing, along with other animals too. This painting was completed by Walton Ford, who obviously likes to express his emotions and his beliefs about various animals in history. I found it very striking that a young man would take the time out of his life and paint a picture of a monkey sitting on a cement stand picking fruit from a tree, with all kinds of bushes and a cemetery in the background. But overall, it shows cheerful thoughts in which I find it to be unusual, strange, curious, and questioning. The reason that I find this to be questioning is because he seems that he is writing about a situation that was never true or has never taken place, such as a fake exhibit.
After viewing these pieces of artwork and visiting the San Antonio Museum of Art, I found it to be a very educational, instructive, and enlightening place because it instructs you about exhibits and why they were fulfilled. It also has family afternoons, internships, programs for adults, concerts, lectures, tours to the public, and receptions that take place every day. I have personally never visited this museum, but in general I ware being takenill take more time out of my life to go and visit new places like this because it seems to inform me about the works. I also truly believe that there were a great amount of advantages in the museum because every single piece of art work has a purpose to it and teaches you why people actually do the things that they do.
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