More Art

So, Sunday we had another excursion to yet another of Moscow's many, many museums. This one was to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Recently, and for the near future, the Pushkin museum is hosting a Picasso exhibit, so there was a MASSIVE line leading to the building across the street from the building that we actually wound up going into.

All this just to see a bunch of weird shapes vaguely resembling a person...

We ran into minor problems early on, since one of the people in our group forgot their student pass, which allows you to get into museums for free, or at least at a significant discount. I'm still not really sure what happened, but I could hear Lena's voice coming from the ticket window, and when she walked up to us with our tickets, she informed us that she would not be joining us as we viewed the gallery - I guess she and the cashier lady didn't exactly understand each other when it came to our tickets.

Anyway, eventually we headed into the actual art area and started viewing stuff. As I've explained in previous posts, I just am not an art person. If it's pretty, if it looks good, then I like it, but I won't like it so much that I can sit there and look at the same picture for 10 minutes. Only pictures with stuff hidden or something could possibly captivate me for that long...

My kind of art.

We saw everything from still-lifes, to those weird Picasso-looking abstract things to old advertisements for plays and stuff (my favorite part):

Afterwards my friends wanted to go to some all-vegetarian restaurant. I agreed to go, but I have to admit that I was reluctant - I haven't exactly liked some of the typical vegetarian food that I've had in the past (i.e. tofu), and I like to have my fair share of meat, but I figured I'd give it a shot. Turns out, vegetarians know how to make some pretty darn good food, even if it lacks that certain wonderful meaty quality.

My meal.

Once we finished our meal, we headed to this little hippie shop that they have under the restaurant where they sell all kinds of weird hippie stuff, like incense, bracelets, bags and these cool Asian-looking jackets. I even considered buying one that had a lot of bright green, purple, yellow, and pink on it. I decided against it, but if it was a little more comfortable and maybe a little less girly, I would have bought it.

Honestly, I can see the appeal of these museums, but I need one with like, pictures of dragons or superheroes or musicians or like, Greek gods in battle or pirates or something. Grapes and little red-headed girls just don't interest me that much.