Dallas Museum Of Art Analysis

Merriam- Webster defines culture as “the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.” Enticed by this, I go where any North Texas culture- seeking teenager would go: the Dallas Museum of Art. Walking in, I am overwhelmed by all the displays of expression; some are confusing, some are straightforward, and some are just plain odd. My friends and I make a game out of the experience, attempting to mimic the sculptures of the Olmec people and recreate art painted by Fernand Léger. The immersion sends me into a state of refreshment. The individualism that is manifested through mind blowing artwork inspires me to write again, to claim words as my own and place them down on paper in combinations that have never before been imagined.

As a hopeful Communication Sciences and Disorders major, I am fascinated by the ways that people communicate without words and how those thoughts travel through time and are preserved so that we may learn from them. Of course, culture is everywhere in every form imaginable: the “despicable” graffiti painted on trains, the singer- songwriter on stage at the local café, the words hidden between the covers of books that line the shelves of the library, all of which are severely underappreciated in today’s society. I strive now to open myself up to the culture that God has surrounded me with an give it the proper recognition.