The Salvador Dali exhibit

Well, I just got back in the house from the Philadelphia Art museum. I went to see the Dali exhibit. Before going I expected to go in and only look at the "pretty" pictures, because the art by him that I've seen on the internet at first glance...I didn't really like. I mean there were some weird pieces. But once there I got so caught up in the colors and the detail that he put into some of his work that I forgot all about looking at the pictures for what they were on the surface.

Some of the paintings looked like you could walk right into them. And other ones left you wondering what was on this man's mind...and I mean that in a good way. At the beginning of the exhibit you're given a set of headphones with a keypad, and as you walk through the gallery whenever you see a picture with a radio symbol next to it you type in the number and the headphones will play a explanation of the painting. (Gotta love technology!) The only problem with this was that there were so many paintings and not enough explanations.

I really had more fun than I expected to have. Almost every painting I looked at held my interest. Now that I've seen the pictures up close and with all the detail, there not all as "ugly" as I first thought.