Museums, galleries, and art shows are priceless for they contain a priceless commodity.
….…. Inspiration……
Inspiration for your life, inspiration for your mind, inspiration for your soul.
Art can hold a clue to who you are. It can be the gateway to your soul; it can create questions within you, as well as holding answers regarding your life’s work and vocation. Does a landscape move you to the point of tears? Perhaps within you is a deep love of nature. Do paintings of underwater animals make you stop and stare; perhaps the answers you’ve been looking lie within the sea. Sculpture can be a caveat into the transcendent. One cannot help but be moved by Camille Claudelle's The Mature Agehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mature_Age
Art can articulate and make you understand your emotions. There is a thrill when in the embodiment of an object or painting, an artist has captured your feelings or creates in you emotion you didn’t know existed.
You may find as you walk through a few art venues you are not inspired at all, but then, one day, you’ll walk into one of these places and before you is something that touches your soul, your mind, touches the deepest part of you.
How much money would you pay to be inspired? And yet, for a small fee or free, a museum, gallery, or art show can hold life changing inspiration.
This is the value of art. The venues that display it, care for it, and share it with the public should be valued as well. The purpose of this blog is to share with you those venues that contain this life giving inspiration and to encourage you to take your children to visit art venues as well. I will be exploring those art venues that are especially kid friendly and give some tips that can encourage art appreciation in your and your children.
Janet Carlen
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