Born and raised in Houston, Texas I often went to museums
downtown. I didn’t realize until I moved away how great the museum district
really was. This spring break I decided to go back and check out and respect
the art a little bit more than I when I would have been as a kid. My mom and I
attended the museum on a Sunday, when a local Houstonian artist, Peter Hite, and
long time friend got a couple of his pieces displayed on the local art wall
there. He has his work in the Smithsonian, and only works with old vintage
stamps. His pieces are becoming quite respected in Houston, and furthermore the
United States. When I walked into this museum I remembered a lot of it, there
are many different exhibitions, and the building itself is a bunch of
architecturally fascinating buildings. The building is huge, with tons of
people always there as well as many security guards. Arts of Africa, Arts of
Asia, Arts of Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, Arts of
Europe, Arts of North America, Arts of the South Pacific. While these are all
exhibits they always have, they also have visiting exhibitions. A visiting
exhibition was Monet and the Seine, Impressions of a River, and my mom is a
huge fan of Monet. My favorite of his many, many pieces had to be the series of
pieces painted in a huge freeze one winter quite a while ago. The colors on
these oil paintings were very pale, and washed out. Overall, this museum and
all the museums in Houston are very great, and this summer I plan on spending a
lot of time (and money) on viewing the work of hundreds of very talented
artists.
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