Smithsonian American Art Museums

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I have come from a country where we don't have art museums at all. In fact, the people of my country do not give importance to art at all, although if you look at traditional clothes, houses it's full of art yet they do not notice that. This is my first Art class that I am taking so, I believe that I do see art a little bit different than those who had experience in the past. I see arts in many ways. When I used to say to my friends and family that even the pictures we are taking even that consider as art. I believe in each piece of art there is a story behind it, when I and my family first time came to America, we went to different museums in D.C. and when the art museums were coming on the way when I used to ask," can we go inside and see how does it look like" my family used to laugh and thought I was joking. Living in America for about almost 10 years now we never went to visit art museums, until this …show more content…
Going to Smithsonian American art museum was one of the greatest experience that I ever had from any other museum that I have gone too. Just going to museums to see without knowing anything about it is the unique experience that knowing the whole history behind something then going to a museum and seeing those what you have learned is a unique experience that anyone can have. I do not recall any piece of art in "Smithsonian American Art Museum" that did not mesmerize me in one way or the other, I personally it hard to believe that some of the art paintings in the Smithsonian were true done by hand through the stroke of the brush. Each piece of arts in Smithsonian could tell thousands word by only looking at them. I even remember that my friend Noor saying out loud that some of the paintings were filed so real and soft by touch. Seeing different painting from many artists on every 4 floors was such wonderful

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