Response to Michelle Webb's blog entry (10/28/2009)

Q:....What is Art to you?

Honestly this a kind of a difficult question. Throughout my life I found art to be very boring because I always have been more of a "sports oriented" type of person in which anything that is not related to the field of sports is just plain out irrelevant to my type of lifetstyle. However there was a point on my life in which art was interesting and I enjoyed many artlike objects especially the works of Monet,Van Gogh, and Homer. That part of my life happened in fourth grade when I was living in Mansfield,Ma. Perhaps the reason why, is that my teacher at the time was also "sports oriented", and I thought she was pretty cool also, so I basically imitated her. But the best part of my fourth grade experience (other than playing football at reccess)was the field trip to the museaum of fine arts in Boston,Ma. Honestly I was just amazed by all of the beautiful paintings, sculptures, ancient artifacts (especially the entombed Egyptian mummies!!!), and everything else that was there that I cannot remember. The day was just a blast and to this day I have never forgotten about that day. That brings me to my next event in which I went back to the same museaum to the guitar exhibit. This was actually really cool because the only type of music that I listen to is Metal, strictly. However I do appreciate many other genres of music, but most do not interest me whatsoever. Otherwise getting back to the event, the exhibit was awsome because every famous musicians guitar was there, and it was just neat to view all of them at once. The craftsmanship and overall design of the guitars really stood out from eachother, making each unique from one another, and if this exhibit would ever happen again, I would definitely go back. Furthermore what art means to myself on a daily basis (as of October 2009) it is definitely a good outlet, through music (metal). This may sound stupid but the rock genre of metal really pumps me up before attending the gym and it illustrates my daily intensity in life, on a daily basis. Generally this is probably the only aspect of art that I value and if music was to be extinct then I would probably go completely insane.