De Young Museum

I never imagined myself saying that a museum is popping on a Friday night.  On October 22, 2010 I took a trip to San Francisco to hear my current design professor Dr. Housefield lecture on Gauguin. I would like to note that this was my first trip ever to San Francisco and from it I will be making more trips over there.  I was not able to catch the feel of the San Francisco city life because I was so absorbed into the De Young Museum. The museum had live music, dancing, and actors acting as artists. It was bizarre because theses actors were actually legit artists and represented the artists they posed as extremely well.  But best of all, never in my life have I almost had a heart attack but I think that was something I can say I experienced in San Francisco walking through an exhibition. Now this may seem ironic since heart attacks are nothing to joke about but this was a good kind of feeling. Of course I knew the exhibition was going to obtain works by Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin, and many others but I had no idea what effects these works would have on me. I was looking at the works and then I looked across the room and  (this may sound cliché) made an instant connection with “Starry Night “ by Van Gogh.  As I approached this painting my heart immediately stopped beating. Maybe it was because I was in the presence of living history or because I was taken aback by its beauty and simplicity but I honestly thought I was going to go into cardiac arrest. It was such an amazing experience!