I got a call from Oskar on a Sunday morning, and he asked, if I would be interested in visiting the Moderna Museet (Modern art Museum), I readily said, yes, as I didn’t have anything to do. Modern Art museum!!! Arts and me!!! Are like, like poles of magnet.
As per the plan we met at Kungstragarden and walked down to Skeppsholmen, the island where the museum is located. While walking, he told me that currently there is a touring exhibition of paintings by Max Ernst. I heard that name for the first time and I could just reply, ‘Oh Ok!’ hearing the painter’s name. To our surprise there was no entrance fee on that day, as the event was sponsored by Eurocard.
We entered the exhibition hall and it was fairly crowded. Being a first timer, I was clueless and I am sure it was reflecting in my body language. My feeling was similar to someone who entered a business meeting in swimming costumes. I collected myself, observed others and paused momentarily, in front of those huge wall mounted paintings, pretended to observe them. I was not able comprehend those weird colours and shapes in the paintings as I was trying to relate them to the real world events and objects, and could not appreciate them. It was beyond my imagination.
To add my complex, when I saw people standing in front of the paintings and relish its beauty, I thought ‘why am I not able to?’ The answer to the question was simple. I always asked myself ‘Why?!’ Instead of enjoying the fascinating colours and shapes; I was trying to understand them. I was trying to evaluate and conclude, how difficult or easy and good or bad, they are. It took a moment for me to realise that any form of art is for enjoying and not for me to evaluate. The next few minutes was interesting as I glanced through tens of paintings and sketches. We went on observing the paintings, the patterns in them, thoughts behind them, techniques used etc. They no more appeared weird to me, instead I admired the creativity and how different someone can view things around them.
It surely was a life time experience and one of the wildest things I had ever done. I would be lying if I say I have become a modern arts enthusiast, But I won’t say no to another exhibition. I suggest everyone ( with no taste for arts ) to visit the museum once, I can assure that it will be a unique experience!!!!
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