Art Schmart

At around lunch time today, I went to the Metropolitan Museum in Manila with some people who used to be in my carpool. I didn’t even know the Philippines had a Metropolitan Museum until Lisa, one of my carpoolmates, said she took a job there after graduating last March. Anyway, Lisa gave us a tour of the small, two-storey building, and I tried my hardest to be really into the paintings. I mean, although some of them had interesting stories –told in Lisa’s lively manner–they all looked like the same portraits, the same carabaos and coconut trees to me. Nothing really stood out; nothing looked like something I’d want to put on my walls if I were rich enough to buy any of them. That’s pretty much how I see most art.

I say “most art” because there is one painting I do love and intend on buying someday–LeRoy Neiman’s Portrait of a Black Panther. Now this is art. I saw it at an art gallery in San Francisco and I swear, it was love at first sight. The colors are vivid and beautifully blended together but best thing I like about the painting is that the panther seems to have its own personality. When I looked into its eyes I could see the fire and determination in them. The picture above–it looks like crap compared to the real thing.

There are only 450 copies of Portrait of a Black Panther, so I guess they must all be sold by now. The gallery I went to was selling it for $4000–cheaper than a diamond ring but still way too expensive for me. Even if my parents could pay for it I wouldn’t want to get it using their money. Someday I’ll be rich enough–by my own merit–to be worthy of buying the Panther.

Sin City

I haven’t read Frank Miller’s Sin City yet, so I can’t comment on how accurate the movie is as a comic book adaptation (though from what I’ve read in reviews, the movie stays pretty much true to the book). So my review of Sin City will be how it is as a movie.

I’m not really one for blockbuster action flicks because whenever I watch one, I feel suffocated by all the testosterone wafting in the atmosphere. However, I didn’t experience that when I saw Sin City. Sure, as with any action movie, there are guns, scantily-clad girls, and gory death scenes. But what made it so different from other action movies I’ve seen is that the violence isn’t just violence; it was done to imitate the way action would be portrayed in a comic book. And it worked very well. I loved the cinematography, particularly the way color would occasionally pop out of the black-and-white. Besides that, Sin City has a well-crafted plot that sucked me in and left me literally sitting at the edge of my seat, hungry for more of the action. 4.5/5

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