my art obsession

One of the hidden gems of Pittsburgh is definitively the art scene, particularly the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Art Museum, and the Mattress Factory. All are fantastic places to go when your life is feeling kind of drab and inspiration is what you seek.

When I was in the fifth grade, my art teacher was this really cool, young, eccentric guy who also worked at the Warhol Museum.  That being said, my first memory of art was mainly Pop Art. Our art projects often included screening, printmaking, and painting. I remember having a ton of fun in that class and it was then when my love of the color orange was defined. (There were 2 Julies in the class and to distinguish us from one another, I was called Julie Orange on all of my assignments).  But it wasn't until I took a modern art class in college that I could appreciate how cool it was to be constructing that sort of art so young.  It was during that Modern Art class, while walking through the hall of the art museums that I really started obsessing about appreciation of art.

Like most people, I was drawn to Impressionism and to the likes of Monet’s Water Lily’s, Degas’s Dancers, and Renoir’s vibrant red color. They were the rebels of the painting world at the time, which is pretty bad ass if you ask me.

On a recent trip to MoMA in New York City, I wandered around snapping pics on my phone. The camera doesn't do Monet justice. The Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh has a pretty impressive wall of Water Lilies but I am dying to go to Giverny in northern France to see Monet’s garden and house, where his most famous paintings were painted.

Cant wait to share more of my art obsessions with you, there are def a lot of them.