Blog for Week of March 24th

 This week was a very memorable experience for me. It's been quite a long time since I've gone on a school field trip. Going to the Detroit Institute of Arts was a great experience for me because I had never gone there before in my life. After going through the museum, I'm surprised I had never visited before. I feel like my family always visits just about every museum we come across, so it was nice to discover something completely new. I had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone from the class. I think being there as a group with Professor Serrata and Professor Stark along with the tour guide for Rivera's mural made the experience more meaningful than an ordinary visit. All the messages, stories, and images of Rivera's murals were astounding to me. What really took me aback was how Rivera painted four absolutely massive walls in less than a year. On top of the sheer size of the paintings, the images included had so many intricate messages and details in quality. Rivera somehow managed to complete the project in a timely manner while painting to exceptional standards, which blows my mind. I feel like "normal" sized paintings that were all throughout the museum take artists weeks or even months to create. Rivera essentially created hundreds of these "normal" paintings of immense magnitude with a coherent theme and important meaning. Thank you to the friends who enjoyed the day with me and a big thank you to both Professor Serrata and Professor Stark for researching, guiding, and organizing the day for us!

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  1. Lexie HartnagleMarch 25, 2022 at 1:45 PM

    Hi Ben, I also had not been to the Detroit Institute of Art before and I really enjoyed the experience and the time we got to spend there. My family is not one that goes to a lot of museums so overall it was a pretty rare experience for me. The thing that really shocked me the most about the murals was how big they actually were. I knew from listening to the virtual tour that they were going to be very big but seeing them in person made me truly understand how large they work. Seeing them showed how much work had to go into them to complete them with as much detail as he did.

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  2. Médar SerrataApril 3, 2022 at 7:08 AM

    Thank you for your post, Ben. I'm glad you appreciate our visit to the Detroit Museum. It is one thing to look at a work of art in a computer screen, and quite another to see it in person.

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