Museum Visit

For my trip to the museum, I chose to go to the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I have been to a good amount of museums, but I wasn't expecting this museum to be as amazing as it was. I was assuming it would just be a bunch of boring art work, but it was far from that! The first thing I saw when I walked into the museum was a giant "sand dune" looking piece of art and after seeing that I was very excited for the rest of the museum!

The sections of the museum I went through were: The Art of the Americas, Native American Art, Art of Africa, and Photography. As I went through each section, nothing seized to amaze me, every piece of art told some sort of story and all the artwork was filled with great detail.

There were several pieces of art that really jumped out at me for different reasons, one being the Openwork Spirit Board made by the Sawos people. It is in the shape of a mini surf board. There was hornbill birds carved into the wood piece that symbolized fertility. There was also a beetle carved into it and it's nose went into a pair of bird wings. When I look at the wood piece I mostly just see swirls carved into it, but after reading the paragraph about it I learned there was much more to it than swirls. It had a story behind it. The detail was amazing!

This is a piece of art that is made out of bullets, guns, shells, etc. I found this very neat because there is not one thing that isn't related to a gun in this art piece. I couldnt imagine how long it would take someone to built such a magnificant building out of only gun materials.