Since my posting about our visit to the museum of fine arts we have been to two more - the museum of decorative arts and the MALBA, which is modern art. Now if you read my earlier post then you are probably wondering why I bothered, but I live in hope. Sadly, in the main that optimism was misplaced. I'm not going to repeat the things I said in the other blog, but you should assume that they do still apply!
The decorative arts museum is a collection in a house commissioned by a wealthy and important couple in 1916, but after her death in 1935 the husband gave it to the state to turn into a museum. The house is of french style and is very impressive. I even quite liked some of the objects on display. But I was disappointed when I saw Rodin's The Thinker, because I had - obviously quite ignorantly - assumed there was only one, and in fact there are a whole batch of them.
The MALBA is modern art, which is always a bit of a worry, and sure enough there were a batch of pictures that consisted of a single colour painted canvas, were of oddly distorted bodies, or just simply a blurred photo of a vase etc. I have quite a few blurred photographs that I was going to delete, but I am now vaguely hopeful that they might be worth a fortune - I won't hold my breath though. But there were a few good pieces and one that I would even choose to put in my house, though I doubt I could afford it. It was a few bits of perspex rotating in a reflective, lit up, semi circular box, giving the impression that they are floating. I liked it, and thought it was clever, but I'm still not sure I would call it art.
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