Quito Art

This city is full of history. There are countless colonial buildings and churches full of classic paintings and carvings. So when I came around a corner to discover this amazing, trippy graffiti I was pleasantly surprised. I continued to find more examples of this art all over the city. The work is full of vivid colors and unusual subject matter. Not at all what you expect to see in the middle of old town Quito. The young artists of Quito have a slightly twisted artistic view. I love it. I guess it is similar to my own artistic perspective.

Conversely, we stumbled upon a park that looked like gnomes had built while on acid. It was as if someone took sloppy mud and piled big globs of it up to form chairs, benches, and archways, then spray painted them with metallic colors. I was simply fascinated by the oddity of it. Not to mention it was part of the city’s main art museum. So I made Laura come with me to see it, and pose for this lovely picture.

However, this is nowhere near as amusing as the Museum of the city’s cultural exhibition. It started out with a curtain of long, sliver strips that looked similar to duck tape. Once you went through, it was dark and you could barely make out a narrow passage way with faux mud walls that were illuminated by a small panel that had a flickering lightning display. Once you rounded the corner there were a few early Ecuadorian inhabitants that were posed with stones, crouched diligently trying to start a fire to cook their freshly killed deer. It wouldn’t have been so bad if it weren’t for the cheap afro wig the man was wearing and the giant electrical plug on the floor in front of him. It kind of distracted us from the illusion they were trying to create. The rest of the exhibition continued in this fashion. Despite the cheesiness of the displays, it was very informative and gave you a true sense of how people lived throughout the history of Ecuador. So I give it thumbs up for managing to be informative and entertaining at the same time.