HOW TO IMPRESS YOUR DATE AT AN ART EXHIBITION

Join Lochie Daddo and staff at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney as they offer a range of hot tips and suggestions for talking about art like you're a learned culture vulture. Art exhibitions, like first dates, are full of mystery and unknowns. Best to go into both having done a little bit of background research first.
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Australian National Maritime Museum
Australians are closely linked to the sea through commerce, defence, exploration, adventure, sport and play. Our oceans and waterways have influenced our development, and who we are. The museum captures these themes with fascinating artifacts, lively exhibitions, exhibition programs, fun activities, and even the chance to board ships and experience life on the water.
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Fish in Australian Art is an unconventional look at Australian art exploring how fish have been a source of artistic inspiration from rock art to the contemporary. Spanning centuries, art movements, and mediums Fish in Australian Art presents more than 170 works from well-known Australian artists such as Margaret Olley, William Dobell, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Rupert Bunny, Anne Zahalka, John Brack, Michael Leunig, John Olsen, Craig Walsh and others. Showing until 1 October 2012.
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Video Transcript
They say you should never order spaghetti on a first date, for obvious reasons, especially if you're wearing white. But I reckon if you have limited art knowledge, attempting to go to an art exhibition on a first date has to be on par. Both are terrifying scenarios, but art and art exhibitions, they're not that intimidating, are they?
Well let's try and break down this impenetrable world of mystery and fear. Let's have a bit of fun and get some hot tips from the staff of the National Maritime Museum here in Sydney. We are here at the Museum's temporary exhibition space and I'm surrounded by over 170 art works. Surprisingly, they're all about fish and fishing; makes perfect sense.
First dates are always going to be uncomfortable, so my top tip would be to just follow the crowd and copy whatever they say.
I would be really impressed if they knew a lot about the art. I don't know much about art, so if someone was taking me and could explain like a painting or a picture.
If you were like, right now, in this exhibition for fish, fish never travel alone and they attract other fish and they are always together, so I would turn the person that I am brining over here, that I want to be with you like the fishes do.
Well I would break into French. Speaks in French.
And it really doesn't matter what you say if you say that, because you say it like that and you had me at bonjour.
Exactly.
I've got one. I was approached several times by the Museum to put my work on display here, but clearly it was a conflict of interest.
I would take her over to the Arthur Boyd here and say, "It's good, but I don't like it quite as much as the one I have at home."
Well I'm into digital media, so I would go straight to the art works that plug in, like this one, and I would start talking resolution and pixel density and frame rates.
I want to have fun at an art gallery, I want to know what the art work is making people feel, not all the facts they know about the art work.
Well I would encourage you to go and have a look at the still life, because there's nothing more inspirational as lead into a good dinner than a nice, juicy still life.
Well I would naturally go straight for the art work kind of Perspex glass because that's going to be the most expensive, isn't it?
And if you are really into this guy, I would try to do some research before, Google the exhibition or buy the Exhibition program to be familiar with it.
So would you actually look at the subject matter; is that an insight into you? Because cats eat fish, so are you going to eat fish, so are you going to eat your first date?
Well I hope you did get something out of that. It's very difficult to pick a top five in that lot, but at the end of the day, art is so subjective that if you say what you believe, then you will always be right, whether your date likes that or not, well that's another story. Look forward to seeing you soon here at the Maritime Museum.

[@olliepopAMV]

the girl talking about how it makes her feel and not about the facts is spot on. EMOTIONAL CONNECTION BOYS

[@nigelgiles]

Good insight, now I know what to do.

[@chevalmongole6566]

I'm french i no understand at all. :D