Van Gogh and Art

While in Amsterdam, we were able to go to the Van Gogh Museum. Being in that museum, it was really breathtaking to see the work of Van Gogh. We learn about it in art classes, but to be able to see it in person was an experience I never thought I would be able to experience. Within one of Seamus Heaney's poems titled "Making a Picture," he wrote "Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests;/ snug as a gun. / I’ll dig with it." 
When there, you can really see the effort that he puts into his work and how much it means to him. I feel like this poem is a good example of that.  Heaney reflects on the act of creation, making art as a kind of anchoring in the world.

I think this is important because without art, the world would be boring, and I take that to include all kinds of art. I could not think of a world without paintings, but not only that works of art like books, music, and poetry. Things like this make the world pretty, and being in the museums, this was really something that I was able to see. Like everything else, this is something that I am so glad that I got to experience.