Wednesday, January 21, 2009

But you could have that waxed

Our field trip was to the art museum. This museum is located underneath the capital building. it's like the equivilent to the White House in the US, but the head honcho here doesn't live there, that's just her office, with an art museum built under it. (that's right 'she', Chile has a woman president)

That's the building to the right, oh, and this guy was hanging around out in front.


In the US, the CIA, or whoever watches the happenings in front of the white house would have not tolerated this guy, but the kids sure love him.

I also don't know how many North American parents would let their kids be taken around an art museum by 'Heroman'.

The exhibit was Frida y Diego. Frida Kaloh, and Diego Rivera.

Frida was pretty much the strangest person ever, often times labeled a 'freak', and her husband Diego, while a bit less of a freak, was still not your outstanding citizen, but they both managed to make a name painting.
This is a picture of them, I know they both sort of look like men, but the one with the unibrow is Frida. The one with the huge smile that says something like, "I'm going to cheat on you" that's diego

And he did cheat on her. This is a weird painting that Frida did. Her stuff is all sort of strange, and freaks me out a bit, or maybe it's her unibrow.
This is one of Diego's most famous paintings, it was at the museum. There is nothing freaky or unibrow about most of his paintings, so I tended to enjoy them a bit more.
Of the pieces I saw that day, this was my favorite, it's Diego Rivera's 'The Architect'


All in all it was a good trip to the art museum, it helped me decide once and for all that I don't plan to grow a unibrow, or be in a train crash. Funny I should mention that...

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