Field Trip!

Museums are an excellent source of inspiration, for me at least, and I've visited more art museums in the last few weeks than I've visited in my whole life. Over spring break, I visited the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Met. I went to see the Benton, to see the master of fine arts exhibition: Future Shock. Then two weekends ago the Visual Arts Club from Eastern put on a trip to NYC and we went to the Whitney and the MoMA. Art museums are a great source for inspiration, especially some of the more contemporary exhibits because you can't see those works in a book or online. My suggestion is to go to museums, because even the art that you've seen 100 times in books is every different when you see the actual work; seeing an 8 ft. painting in front of you is a very different experience than looking at a 2 in. picture in a book.