Art Exhibit By Armanda Haller

Instruments: The Public Domain





Game Description 


You have been collecting art for a long time, now you have decided to show off your collection. Each piece is special to you in some way, and represents a part of who you are as a person.



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Game Playthrough

Word Count: 1450     Played: Nov 30, 2024





Your Personality

I too feel as though my heart has been ripped out at times. When I look upon the pieces of my collection I am bursting with emotions to the point where I think my heart may very well up and leave my body. Should that happen, I welcome any doctor to take a look at what has happened like the doctor in this painting. 


What makes this piece relevant and unique? 

Look at that foreshortening! Look at the composition of the dark and the light! There is so much beauty in the pain! 

Your Looks

I'm old! But that doesn't mean I'm not still kicking! Hehehee

What makes this piece of art interesting and amazing? 

Look at it! It's a skeleton and it's smoking! What's not to love!

Your Actual Life

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse 1915

She's locked away and sick of only working at her loom. She wants to leave but she can't. She can only experience the world through that mirror. Just like being young. All these obligations you can't be free of. All these worries and expectations. Bah. 

What makes this art piece important and full of potential for change? 

You know what happens next right? She looks at the window at the most handsome fella there ever was. And then she dies. But she sees him! I think it's worth the risk. She would have never gotten to even see it if she had stayed up there picking away at that loom. 

We all gotta take risks. 

Your Fears

The bodies are life sized. And the painter went to look at actual corpses to see how the bodies looked. They used to do that out in the 1500s, but looking at bodies in the 1800s was a no-go. Especially if you were planning on painting actual corpses in the painting itself. They thought it was too unseemly. 

What makes this art piece intense and unnerving? 

If you look closely you can see the little ship out in the distance. It's tiny, you wouldn't even know to look for it if I hadn't of shown it to you. Sometimes we need others to point out the details that will save us. Sometimes our own eyes just aren't enough.

Makes you Feel Good
The Romans were great at making glass. Not so good at keeping it around. Though I guess neither was anyone else since not much survived. This thing has also been broken in modern times, then re-assembled. It's good to know that broken things can be fixed. What makes this art piece magical and exceptional? Well despite everything. It's still here. It's still going strong. It will be here long after I'm gone too since someone cares about it enough to make sure that it was one: reassembled after it was broken and two: make sure it won't happen again.
Your Childhood

Look at everything in this. There isn't an inch in this painting that doesn't have some little freak wandering around. Everything is so strange and so close to being familiar. It's like when you're young and you don't understand how the world works quite yet. That's what I feel like when I look at all the things in this painting. 

What makes this art piece soulful and emotive? 

Everything about this painting is baffling. What was going through his head when he was painting it? What decisions was he making? I can never know. All I know is the confusing and bewilderment of this painting is the same I felt when I was a child looking out into the adult world.

Your First Love
Just look at the way he looks at her. That's puppy love if I've ever seen it. You know he was modeled after a circus strong-man. Some say the painter might have even had a relationship with him. But who's to say? What makes this art piece so nostalgic and emotional? I remember doing anything for my first love. I'd pick her up in the car, pay for meals, ya know, all the usual stuff. I was always at her beck and call. Only found out later that she didn't really like me all that much. She was just lonely and tried to convince herself that she liked me but eventually felt bad for stringing me alone. Broke my heart in the end.
Your First Rejection

They told us back in the day that men weren't supposed to cry. Bah. I saw men cry all the time. I cried too. Lots and lots after heartbreak. And not just the romantic one. I got turned down by my very first job even though my father told me he'd set me up. Turns out he lied to me and told them to reject me so that it would "toughen me up." 

What makes this piece torrid and charged?

I never knew if the glass tears were supposed to be evocative of the statues of Mary weeping. I never really looked into it, but art is subjective and even if that wasn't the authorial intent you can read into it that way. Or don't.

Vacations

Look at how moody this all is. Like you just don't want to go outside. You want to sit on your porch, sipping some coffee and watching the rain fall. Don't you love the smell of the rain? 

What makes this art piece adventurous and fulfilling? 

The storm! The dramatic light! Who knows what's going to happen? Maybe you'll be fine, maybe there'll be a flood. Anything could happen!

The First Time You Felt Loved

Love is overwhelming! Look at her! She's so distressed! She doesn't want it, but all the little cupids won't stop! They have to give it to her. 

What makes this art piece blissful and cherished? 

She can't fight back, there's nothing she can do, she will love and be loved. Even if she doesn't want it she can't help but feeling that way.

The Biggest Change in your Life

I started collecting art later in life. I do it because I remember how much I love art. And then I opened the museum later because there's no real use in hoarding it all away. It's supposed to be seen. 

What makes this art piece definitive and immutable? 

Mammon is a demon of greed. Money will destroy you. But you also can't live without it. Moderation in everything ..

Goals in Your Life

The absolute opulence of the sheer amount of butter. The knife suggesting it had been used. The eggs suggesting a much larger grander meal. Also it's a pe-- 

What makes this art piece hopeful and unbridled? 

There's nothing better than enjoying the small things in life like extra butter. To be able to indulge in all the small pleasures is truly divine.

Grief

The death of an innocent and the opportunistic crows that have come to feast on the body. The breath of the mother in the cold air. Truly distressing. 

What makes this art piece overwrought and lonely?

There's nothing she can do to save the body. Even in death there's no dignity. Not only has she lost her lamb, but she'll have to watch it be eaten too. 

Happiness

Nothing like a good bath, lounging around with no one else there. 

What makes this art piece rapturous and wild? 

I wish to be young and free again.




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