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Van Gogh Museum and artistic memories
Many art exhibitions that I visited at different stages of my life were unforgettable to me. I still remember when I visited the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, in Curitiba, for the first time, when I was 14 — in fact, I think it was one of my first visits to a museum ever. I went there with my family and was surprised to see an exhibition by such a well-known artist. It was the exposition “Picasso: Passion and Eroticism”, which featured dozens of prints made by the Spanish master.
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At about the same time, I had my first contact with contemporary art. In an extra-class activity in the discipline of artistic education, we went to the Alfredo Anderson Museum (another museum in Curitiba, where I live), and a particular artwork caught my attention. It was a large heap of white slime, which visitors could touch. So that could also be art? For me, then a teenager discovering the artistic possibilities of the world, that seemed revolutionary.
The art education classes have always been among my favorites when I was in school, and my first visits to museums inaugurated my curious life for art exhibitions around the world. Many exhibitions were memorable to me, like when I saw “Guernica”, immense, in front of me, at the Reina Sofia Museum; or when I saw it…
