DAI Part 2 and W_ndering What Comes Next

This painting/ picture is by the famed pop artist Andy Warhol.  It is cool because it is a black and white picture which is awesome in itself, but also because of the awesome paint job on top of the enlarged image that bring the character to life.  I dunno why, but art is hard for me to describe as to why I like it.  But I guess art is also one of the things that you don't owe anybody an explanation for... Right?

 Rach and I hit up the DAI on Friday for Round 2. This time we rushed through the European section to write down the answers to the scavenger hunt that we got last time, but had to copy again since Rachel is so genius that she forgot the sheet at home.  After that, we spent a little more time with the Impressionist paintings because we had to rush last time.  Then we moved on to the American art section which had a lot more paintings of people in desperate need of some sunlight, but now they had powdered white hair.  Also the Americans painted their babies uglier than European babies.  Also, unlike European art which had much more religious themes, American artists painted more about great American heroes like George Washington (back in the day, I guess he was like bigger than Jay-Z!) and the son of the dude who founded Dayton (OK he's probably just some random douchehound, but his mug is in an art museum...). 

American artists also painted some really idyllic (yeah SAT word) landscapes that really captured nature and its overall awesomeness.  2 great examples can be seen here.  If I had any artistic talent I would probably paint something like this.  Some awesome ruins in Italy on the coastline with a lot of detail...  In the picture on the right you will notice two important things... 1.) Rachel's face is blurry in every picture.  This is because in real life she has a blurry face... Just think of it like God just did us all a favor and pixelated her face so nobody would think it was Halloween every day.  2.)  You can see extreme amounts of detail in this painting that just continued to astonish me the more I stared at it...  These paintings of places that look so amazing make me wish I was chillin with the people that painted them back in the day...  Of course in this scenario I would also have the ability to challenge people to a duel, which was how people asserted dominance over one another before videogames were invented.

At this point in this post I want to remind all the senoritas out there that I am 100% heterosexual.  Ignore the fact that I wrote a haiku, went to an art museum out of my own free will, and without my knowledge but I guess well-known to Rachel wear aprons while I make baked goods.  Also the purple background in this picture above do not help my cause.  But ladies I can prove my straightness to you on an individual basis if you would so choose. Holla.

 As is demonstrated here, I am flying and looking super gangster simultaneously.  There is no trick photography or photoshop or any of that unlegit shiz here.  This is realer than real. 

We wrapped up our second 1/4 of the DAI with the modern art section.  There were some pieces in this section that I wouldn't call art and I just chose not to spend as much time staring at them.  Others were really cool looking and even though I feel like I could have made some of them, I didn't.  And because they made me feel a certain way by looking at them, I consider them viable art.  One of the items on the scavenger hunt required us to count the number of objects pinned on this pegboard artpiece.  This task brought out the OCD nature in Rachel and I as we counted each object, checked, and rechecked the number at least a dozen times.  I still swear we were right with 102 though, although the answer they wanted was 100... 

Quote of The Day: "Alright, now you count that half and I'll count this half" - Rachel and Ahmed, multiple times.

Moment of the Day: Enjoying my hard-earned Chocolate Chip cookie after completing the scavenger hunt

Picture of the Day: Rachel with our dog creation in front of the real giant dog creation that she didn't think was there last time even though it totally was.

I will be writing in this blog more sparingly over the next two months for two reasons. 1.) I will be busy in Illinois studying 2.) I wont be on as many adventures because of aforementioned studying (although I hope Rach continues our tradition of one week of doing, experiencing, and writing as much as possible) I have faith in you Rachel! :)

Until next time, peace.