Whole Museum Visit Spent Feeling Guilty About Moving On From Paintings
CHICAGO—Visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago reported
Saturday that their trip to the celebrated museum was entirely dominated
by the guilt they felt for not lingering long on any one painting
before moving on to the next. “I know these are masterpieces, and you’re
supposed to let their brilliance wash over you while you contemplate
their significance, but I really couldn’t make myself stand there for
more than a few seconds,” said museum-goer Vernon Bailey, admitting he
spent more time reading the placards describing each painting than he
did looking at the art itself. “They have all these Monets and Renoirs
in there, but I made it through that entire wing in, like, five minutes.
By the end I was just blowing past these iconic works—Nighthawks, American Gothic,
that really famous pointillist one—and thinking, ‘Okay, done, done,
done.’ What’s wrong with me?” Other museum visitors confirmed they
couldn’t give a shit about paintings and didn’t mind saying so.
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