rushing this day to slow down

music: Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
mood: not in it
state: worn out yet surprisingly happy

this was a slow day for me. thinking about it, nothing very interesting happened to me today. so is that the pay-off of having an 8-5? i sometimes have the feeling that it's the same old day every single day.. but only during the weekdays. because let me tell yah.. boy are my weekends crazy!

last saturday clara and i went to an 'art tour'. for the first time i suddenly don't care what everyone will think about going on an art tour. it was fun. i may not be as sophisticated as i wish i were.. but heck there were a lot of interesting pictures, fun to look at.

clare insists that i did something sponteneous (i can't even spell the damn word!).. how can i be that when i can't even spell it?!? we'll get to that though.

it was surprisingly not that hard to get out of bed. probably because we had been planning this art tour for.. umm.. a month i think! and people who REALLY know me would have figured by now that that's the most fun for me (is that even grammatically correct?).

so out of bed i go to meet up at katipunan.. the trip officially begins...

Ayala Museum

how many times have you walked along the corridors of greenbelt from the office to the MRT station not realizing that you're passing a building full of treaures! probably in contention with Yuchengco, this is probably the best museum in our country.. collection is not as national artist-y (this is my main interest now) but you can't help but appreciate the extensive zobels (both of them) that they have.

then we get to the luna's and amorsolo's.. things got really interesting (god that sounded so dorky!!) i was almost proud of myself when from outside the room i went "hey.. i recognize that" recognizing amorsolo from 10 ft away. i honestly was not familiar with the painting itself.. but something about the subject, color, mood.. light-bulbed me to think "AMORSOLO!"

yo! fernando! i got you all figured out man! hahaha... then we head to lunch. (we gota eat.. right?)

GSIS Museum

ok.. so this might have been a wrong turn. again, people who know me well would figure that i take wrong turns.. that's what i do. anyway..

this is a really sad museum! yes they do have a good collection of national artists.. some i barely know. bottom line, lotsa pretty pictures in sad condition. here's the clincher -- we decided beforehand to skip this because the Parisian Life (Luna's treasured painting) is on tour somewhere in spain. so we missed that.

but there was the consolation of a replica but seriously.. this replica is even more sad than the museum itself.. my HP bubblejet at home could have done a better job at printing a copy of the damn thing! i always had the percetion that (having seen thomas crown affair one too many times) that a replica is a copy that you will hardly notice the difference from the original.. unless you are a master or/and you inspect the borders... but GSIS does have the right to boast about this. so i have to give it to them for that..

if there is a replica painter out there.. can someone please offer to paint and copy the brush strokes of the parisian life!?! i'm telling you.. that will make your career. then give me a call cuz i want a REAL replica of that painting on my wall as well...

Metropolitan Museum

so we go back to "The Plan".. off to met we go..

surprisingly, this is the first museum where we had to pay for admission. i think we had to pay in ayala too... but we just went right in! hahaha.. hey we bought a couple of things from the sale table.. that's good enough. besides.. ayala de zobel doesn't nearly compare with amador nor gregorio.. we could use the money more! ha!

going back.

a lot of modern art on this one. there was that incident of that room full of foam thingies.. hahah that was fun..

the two most interesting painting in the met are both hidalgos that they have.. well.. aside from the fact that the museum was damn half empty.. not of people.. of paintings!! the hidalgo's where there.

for me, these are the two most magnificent paintings i've seen for that day. the emotions were just too strong. simple.. magnificent. we watched people walk past it.. not appreciating how much of a treasure that painting they are ignorantly walking pass by.. so sad!

i don't wana sound like some snotty arty-fartsy.. but i wish they were at awe as much as i was.. and as depressed that it was in shitty condition..

i move that we give the national treasures to the private museums where we can almost be certain that they will be properly taken care of.. if not sold! haha!!

ok fine.. fact is i missed the spolarium.. the wing of the national museum was closed...

in all.. i guess it's ok to have missed the spolarium.. because as soon as that wing opens.. i shall go see it.

however, i have this to end the day..















they're both gregorios.. (in case your wondering..)

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