Today, the 31st of March, we visited two museums in Berlin. One was an art museum, with mosly Picasso and a few Klee paintings. Some of the Picasso was hard to interpret because of the style in which he draws. The ones I could interpret were really cool. I really liked one called the The Yellow Sweater because of the contrast of the colors and the way he drew the arm chair behind the girl sitting in it. It was cool to see that some of Picasso's work was not in the cubist style, but was very easy to understand what was going on. I didn't quite like the Klee paintings and drawings because he didn't use much color.
The other was museum with musical instruments from the past 300 years. Some were types of horns, strings, and keyboards that I had never seen before! For example, there was an instrument with 25 strings, as shown in the picture. This instrument is called a Viola d'Amour, or the Viola of Love. I thought that this Viola was very interesting because it is bent at the peg box. I can't imagine how long it would take to tune before each practice, or to replace one of the strings!
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| It was really windy and rainy in Berlin today! |
The style that Pablo Picasso geared towards is called cubism. It's a movement that began in the 20th century where instead of following perspective and exact measurements, artists began using gemetric shapes to express a scene.
ReplyDeletealso the viola.... oh man...... that would be a nightmare
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