Museum Visit

I chose to visit the De Young museum in San Francisco. I have been to museums all over the world so I was not expecting anything great. After going to the Van Gough museum I figured nothing could ever top that! However, I was pleasently suprised. The first section I visited had some of the greatest statues I have ever seen. This was not my favortie part of the museum but it was still pretty impressive. One of the statues that first caught my eye was the male figure from the New Guinea art. The statue is suppossed to represent a mythological giant who was the protector of the tribe. Its funny to me because the expression on his face hardly looks like a protector. He is smiling and just kind of has a goofy looking face. After seeing some of the greek statues, he almost seems the opposite of authoritative or powerful. Either way though I really liked the overall look to the statue. Another section that I loved was the glass blown section. I am bummed I did not get any pictures of it because they were truely amazing. There was a huge glass blown sculpture of fruit that was particularly interesting to me. Usually you only see fruit in still life paintings so that was cool to see. Also there was this cathedral that was built out of old guns and shell casings which was extremely interesting. Just building a model is hard enough but only using old pieces of guns and bullets is quite impressive. It reminded me of the scene in Saving Private Ryan where they are blowing up all of the churches. Overall I really liked the museum and would love to go back again!