Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Visiting Museum of Fine Arts, Houston was one of the most invigorative experiences of my life. MFAH is one of the biggest museums in United State and serves best of its purposes in preserving and presenting some of the most classical pieces of artworks for people like me to whom art is a means of fully expressing my feelings towards a particular subject and to lose my mind in a void of vision, imagination blended with reality and positive interpretation of time (Grimes, 2010).

Walking through the perfectly fashioned ambiance of the museum was wonderful experience. Strolling around, I was touched with powerful feelings of the urgency and significance that the pioneers of the museum applied to its development. There were a number of displays that simply shared the testimonies of the pioneers and other regional people, and other exhibits that simply rewarded biographies of well-known artists belonging to almost every part of the world.

The collections of artworks from diverse geographic locales of the works, especially the paintings from India, China, South East Asia, Japan and Korea reflect the diverse communities that are exhibited by Houston's museum. Contemporary and Ancient works are placed together in an attention-grabbing and inspiring aura to craft innovative juxtapositions. Among these were two paintings that grabbed my attention a lot. One of which was scene of annunciation painted by Henry O. Tanner, an African artist. Surely Tanner's work is one of the best illustrations of Annunciation that one can find in the history. His work exhibits all the dynamics of realism and pragmatism. Both the annunciation and the thankful poor put on view the notion that painting is fundamentally a concrete artwork and must only consist of existing and real things around, however the essence and soul of ...