Chapter 9: My Thoughts

You must enjoy the journey of travel, for that is also an art that it being taken away from the world today. For many people when they walk around, their faces are always in their phones, looking at a screen for hours on end. What is the good  of looking at a screen instead of looking up at the fellow people's faces around you. This relates to what Walter Benjamin was talking about on what would happen to people if they were to ignore art entirely. It is not that art itself is getting ignored, it is that people would not really need to see the orignals that famous artists made. They would instead see recreations of it or buy them for their own homes. By the twentieth century, people started to see traveling art exhibits at the Metropolitan, etc. It would get packed and packed with people that would  want to see these new exhibits. It was especially good for art lovers that lived in the city to have the advantage to go to all these different art museums at their own fingertips. As much as the art world is improving, I feel when people could just go online to see a painting instead of going to the actual museum to see it. It scares me to know that people will not be able to enjoy the art of the world around them at all. This had all happned because of screens set up in the own comfort of your home in order to do work. Soon enough, it will be to see paintings and works of art. Musuems could go potentially go out of business. I would not want to see the Metropolitan Musuem of Art shut down. At the rate that Americans look at a screen, it's time to sometimes shut down and look at the art around you like old times.