Carlsbad Art and Culture

art created by Moe in Carlsbad

Art is capable of triggering intense emotions. The poised stretch of Degas’ ballet dancers showcase elegance and beauty. The bonnet capped child of Mary Cassatt ignites an inner flame of childhood innocence. Daumier pushed sorrow in his deep illustrations of the underprivileged and Delacroix painted the trepidation and horror of Romanticism. Edvard Munch teased one’s psyche with the symbolic portrayal of such themes as misery, sickness and death wile Henri Matisse expressed contentment in joyous scenes of serenity.

Emotions vary in type, but have identical capabilities of power. Sadness can be felt as strong as happiness.

An old lady walks up to a brightly painted bouquet of tangled flowers, worked in thick impasto. She comments on how this painting has moved her. She feels the warmth of a first love and reminisces of her youth. She sighs in admiration of its artistic skill as she moves on. She slowly approaches the next painting of a haggard homeless man unconscious and laying in his own vomit. His eyes are deep and chunks of his last meal still dangle in his coarse beard. The old woman gasps as she raises her gloved hand to her mouth. She winces in disgust. She questions what brought this man to this point in his life. She becomes sad and feels sorrow for him and his family. A tear wells up in her thickly mascaraed eye and makes its bumpy journey down her wrinkled cheek. The tangled flowers of the previous painting are no more than a weak memory; pushed out like an unpersuasive salesperson. She scribbles the name of the artist and the painting on the back of a folded coupon and exits the museum before finishing the rest of the exhibit.