We all get to experience the beauty of nature. How magnificent it is to witness Gods creation. To those who have stood in the midst of a redwood forest, or at the foot of a majestic mountain or waterfall, you know what I am talking about.
Last week I was blessed with the opportunity to go to the largest art museum in America.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art….Wow, Wow, Wow!
Of course, we expected grandeur from creation but not always from mankind. Too many times people are known for their hatred, wars, and evil ways. A place like the Met is where you flip the coin to experience the other side of mankind. People, artists, architects, painters, sculptors, and craftsmen who had a creative nature to express beauty that stagers the mind. It’s deep within them and yet they have found a way to pour it out in their artistic ways and impact the world in their own lifetime and for generations after they have passed on.
More updates to come of my findings at “The Met”
A side note: I ’m not saying creatives are perfect…far from it. Van Gogh delt will depression and many expect he committed suicide.
The Italian painter, Caravaggio became notorious for his drinking, gambling, sword-carrying and brawling. He was arrested for carrying a sword without a permit, sued for beating a man with a stick. : o
After Benvenuto Cellini killed his rival, the goldsmith Pompeo de Capitaneis, in 1534, Pope Paul III—a Cellini fan—reportedly pardoned the Florentine artist, declaring that men like him “ought not to be bound by law.” In 1660 the Dutch painter Jacob van Loo stabbed a wine merchant to death during a brawl in Amsterdam, and then fled to Paris. *ARTnews
