I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple of times for school field trips. I was kind of bored; it didn't do much for me.
Ooh, but there are some amusing art stories. I had to take art in 8th grade, the last time I took it. One of our big projects was to make this mask of a face. I was doing fairly well with mine, but when I painted at one point, I totally messed up and the wrong color got all over the mask. So then I got frustrated and randomly threw different colors of paint all over it. My teacher came over and was like, what happened? I paused for a moment and explained it's all symbolic, and assigned each color to stand for an emotion. My teacher thought that was wonderful.
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Updated On: 4/5/06 at 09:03 PM