Name: Johan Sebastin Quintero Rueda Prof 1 and 2

Botero Museum: An unforgettable experience

Most of the time we think in traveling abroad in

order to know new places, but what we dont know is
that we have a wide selection of amazing things just
crossing the street, a clear example is the Botero
museum. I had a really good time because on the one
hand I could spend a funny afternoon with my
classmates, and on the other hand I appreciated the
exquisite job of different artists that are in the
museum. The pieces were donated by Fernando
Botero, giving the opportunity to the citizens of
enjoying paintings and sculptures of Dali, Picasso, Rauschenberg, etc Personally, I liked the work
of an artist that was unknown for me, Max Ernst.

Max Ernst was a German artist who was born in 1891. He

studied art history and psychology which gave him an
incredible perspective of the art as a way of communicating
imagination and even dreams. For that reason he used
different techniques depending on the intention of the work.
In the exhibition there is a wonderful painting called
Explosion in a cathedral. In the piece, he did not paint in
an explicit way the things. He used different colors and
shapes in order to give the message he wished. We can see
how the straight lines from the center represent the
explosion, the movement, whereas the mixture of red color
represents the fire, and the cool colors that might represent
the people or the structure.

But there are pieces that show other techniques as

Great Genius, which is a sculpture made of
Bronze. For me the sculpture represents the wisdom
that the culture has imposed to the owl. The owl is
not made in a normal way; it is divided in linear
sections that give us the idea of an owl. Finally, I
consider it was a great experience because we could
test our English in a different way, and we could
appreciate awesome works of different artists as
Max Ernst.