Yesterday we went to the National Gallery of Ireland and saw the main museum which consisted of many different pieces of art from a variety of time periods. One piece that really struck me in the main museum was a self-portrait a modern artist did. It was an HD video of her in a bathtub almost staring into your soul, and I felt that was meant to force the audience to really captivate her emotions. I also felt that the bathtub symbolizes almost a raw emotion or even her birth. I just thought that the place in which she did her self portrait was extremely symbolic about who she is. The second part of that day was when we daw Johannes Vermeer. This exhibit was absolutely incredible. We went in the gift shop beforehand and plastered everywhere was his most famous painting the girl with the pearl earring. I was surprised to see that that particular painting was not in this exhibit but happened to be all over the gift shop. I enjoyed this exhibit more than anything we have done this entire trip. The things that drew me in were the amazing artistic abilities and the variations of technique throughout all of the artists. I also thought it was really interesting how all of these artists were constantly playing off each other’s work, and how one just constantly was inspiring the other. My personal favorite was of the men he painted of the Astronomer, and the Geographer. I thought it was interesting that they decided to feature men in this particular body of work since it has been mostly women. What I also found captivating was the fact that they do not know if he had just decided to do two paintings inspired off each other, or if he was inspired by someone else. In general, this exhibit was amazing and I felt like I had made a connection with it.