Vincent Van Gogh: His Life In Art | Photo Diary

I recently got to an awesome art exhibit all about Vincent Van Gogh and his life at the art museum here in Houston!! I love art and history so as you can probably guess I had a lot of fun. I got a lot of cool photos so I thought it would be fun to show y'all. :)

If you don't know his story I'm just going to summarize it for you: 

-he doesn't know what to do with his life 

-he tries a bunch of different stuff

-he becomes a painter (with his brothers support)

-he learns a lot about art

-he low key goes crazy (he had a mental illness that a lot of people believe to be something along the lines of bipolar) 

-he checks himself into a mental hospital

-he gets out

-his brother has a family now and Vincent doesn't want to be a burden so he kills himself

As you can tell he had a really interesting (but sad) life. 

Let's get onto happy things now though haha. 

They had a lot of his real paintings but in the first room it was just replicas and it basically told the the whole story of his life. 

And now for the real ones! I loved the paintings of people as the emotion just seemed so real. 

All throughout the exhibit, they also had large, expanded versions of his pieces which were super cool. 

Fun fact I'm pretty sure this was a painting of a church in one of the towns he lived in. His father was some kind of pastor (I think) and at one point that's what Van Gogh tried to be as well. 

My little sis. :)

Doesn't that look like something that should be in Egypt? Not the actual drawing but the doorway and the wall behind. 

One of his famous self portraits! 

This was some lady who owned a cafe near him and like, I love her haha. Just look at that hair. 

This one and the one of the old lady right above were two of my favorites!

They had a whole little gift shop just for the exhibit but it was surprisingly not that cute and it kind of made me sad. 

One of the coolest things is that at the end they had a whole interactive section! 

As you can see there were awesome photos opportunities and it was just so cute. 

The whole fam went including my Tata and Geto (grandparents). 

Do you like art? Should I do more photo diaries? 

Art Car Parade!

I go to the art car parade every year and this year was no exception! Sooo on the fateful day of *tries to remember day* ummmmm April 15 at around 1ish we packed up our stuff and drove to downtown!

I also did a vlog for it so check that out if you want and make sure to subscribe to my channel. :)

There were just like a bunch of cameras on this one which I found cool. 

It's a traiiiinnnnn.

Ok so right near us was this British family and they all talked in the accent. There was this one little kid and he came up to me and talked to me AND OH MY GOSH THE CUTENESS

Cool rey costume.

People really like star wars haha. 

It's the mystery machine! I liked this one because the people on it seemed so happy and they were blasting music. 

I didn't exactly get this one but they were hitting the bar things and making this cool music which I thought was cool. 

The library had one!! They have never had one before and I loved it so much!! There were a bunch of books covers plastered on it with create and explore on the sides.

One of my favorite ones. 

It's a zebra princess. She commands all of the zebra people. 

The radio station I was on!

They had a bunch of these low rider cars and they went up and down which looked really cool.

I didn't really get this one but I'm pretty sure it was about how we're killing the planet and climate change and everything.

It's like a fountain and the water comes out in tune with music. I saw a house around Christmas that did the same thing and I'm obsessed with the idea!

A peackockkkkk. 

The roller derby peeps! If anyone remembers my mom actually used to do roller derby. Yes I know my mom is cooler than yours you don't have to tell me.  

Ok so before the parade started my dad and I were walking around and I noticed this car type thing and mentioned how the person who was driving it looked so cool. I think my exact words were like "I love her hair," because the person had this fun wig on. And my dad responded saying how I couldn't know if it was a boy or girl and I just laughed and we moved on. As we were walking back to where we were sitting I looked at the person and and noticed he had a beard and I realized he actually was a guy and we laughed. 

This guy was doing cool tricks and going up and stuff but I he looked like he was going to fall backwards every time and it kind of freaked me out. 

Rainbow yo

It's a big flying monster

I'm going to blow your mind but this one was actually made my an elementary that some of my friends went to!

The people on top were old guys and they had paint on there face and were just rocking out to these songs and it was quite awesome. 

March for our lives and moms demand action float!

I like this pic because it just seems so cool but the actual car is a plus as well. 

The real life bat mobile! 

It's the one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater. If you get this you get extra points. 

Doesn't that just look so cool??

A cool one thanking all the peeps who helped during harvey. Fun fact the thing that we evacuated on looked a bit like that except bigger. 

Have you ever been to a parade? Was it awesome? Which car was your favorite? What kind of posts do you want to see from me next?