A place surrounded by paintings is not just a museum. For some people, it is a favorite place where they can escape from their painful reality. Even if they are having a good day, nothing compares to the happiness that an artist can make you feel through their masterpieces. Inspired by what surrounds him whenever he is inside a museum or just a room with tons of paints, BTS's Kim Namjoon (RM) grabs a pen or a camera and shares his thoughts. Whatever comes first, BTS's leader is always trying to teach his beloved ARMY how to keep connected with art and culture, no matter where they come from.

It has been shown many times how deeply in love he is towards these kinds of places. During tours or on vacations, he would publish a masterpiece, the artist, or the place where he has been. There's no need to know everything about art, as long as you can enjoy it and feel, right inside your heart, what does the artist wants to communicate. From pottery to clothes, gadgets or crafts, poetry, and song lyrics, artists are everywhere, looking for someone who can understand them and their pain. They exist just to tell you that you are not alone. And certainly, Kim Namjoon is not only an artist. Before being that, he was just like any other person who feels the needing to scream out loud what his soul is hiding. 

Being able to relate such a simple object as a rock, with the purest thing that the human being owns, which is its spirit, the leader of the most successful Korean band from the decade has proved to us that you're not more important than others, we are all related. We need certain objects so that we could coexist in peace and in complex according to nature. Art is a huge part of it and, if we can't see it, Kim Namjoon is there to teach us. He has named many artists as his favorite ones, being the American-Taiwanese James Jean, one of them, and also the artist who created "Seven Phases," a whole exhibition at the HYBE INSIGHT museum based on BTS and their astrological and natural representations. 

Thanks to RM, we learned about Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota by sharing a picture of himself inside the exhibition of "Infinity Lines." The room, which was located in Savannah College of Art and Design, was filled with red strings, almost as messy as a spiderweb on those deep forests. As the artist explained, the red strings were the representation of blood, and therefore, life. There were few chairs she picked up and how we could still find people in old objects, such as school chairs. The essence of a classroom can be smelled right away. In a casual outfit, RM is standing just in the middle of all the art, perhaps finding a new meaning to this ephemeral work. 

In his journey, he has also met French painter Claude Monet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "View of Vétheuil" can be seen in this picture, standing still in pastel colors and the vivid nature of the Seine River. Monet paintings do not have any titles, so it's highly likely he just sat down and painted what he wanted to or what he felt. Scholars and curators are in charge of giving names to Monet's artworks. As a huge fan of Monet, RM also visited the painting "Garten in Giverny," located in Vienna, and wrote ARMY a postcard, where he describes his feelings about being born and the love he receives, how he thinks about being able to reach everyone's heart and how he is upset if he can't do so. All of this by seeing Monet. Impressionist style must have impacted him while being young. 

Korean artists are a must for this young man, and he is a devoted fan of Whanki Kim, an abstract artist who has lived in Japan in order to learn about art and the different ways of performing it. Whanki Kim is also one of the most expensive painters of his country, and his artwork has been admired overseas, including countries from America. RM has posted many pictures about this artist and his paintings, such as "A Eternal Song" and an untitled work from 1971, shown at the Museum SAN (Museum Mountain or vice-versa). Since he was young, Mr. Kim has been into abstract concepts, captivated by how intense it could be just to draw some lines and jars. He has been obsessed with Korean aesthetic style back in their cultural history, something that anyone could fall for. Certainly, RM wasn't the exception. Lee Seung-jo, a Korean artist also involved in the abstract concept, this time with geometrical touches, was also included in the long list of RM's favorite painters. Artist Yung Hyeong Keun, who was close to Whanki Kim, has caught RM's attention with his characteristic paintings, most of them being ultramarine blue paints on raw canvas and the smearing effects of brunt umber, which represents the Korean way of sensibility. His latest paintings were mostly black instead of blue, with more consistency in his techniques. RM visited his exhibition back in 2019 while being in Venezia, Italy. 

Technology combined with art is something that has let people show their talents in a way that, probably 50 years ago, was not possible to imagine. Artificial intelligence and synthetic biology is a topic created by Philip Beesly in collaboration with fashion designer Iris Van Herpen under the exhibition called "Transforming Space." It was run in Ontario back in 2018; looking fresh and calm, Kim Namjoon was staring at the place. The artwork has involved many scientists, engineers, and other artists. They have employed neuroscience engineering techniques to explore how functions like "empathy and care" can create sculptural works that function as "living labs." Ferdinand Hodler, a Swiss artist, has been the main attraction to this young leader of BTS, who was known for painting portraits and landscapes in a realistic style, which later on, he called it "parallelism." It looked so vivid as a magical mirror, and RM has found many secrets behind Hodler's paintings. Imitating "The Walking Man," Alberto Giacometti's sculptures are frozen for eternity at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. However, the windows behind it are framed in order to make it look like a vast painting, scenery which is constantly changing, giving the illusion of the sculpture to walk endlessly through this life. 

Kim Namjoon's eyes have seen it all; his soul has felt everything and perhaps even more than what artists were represented in their masterpieces, his hands might be full of creativity while writing songs and poems, all of them influenced by his experiences and the magical journey he had while being at these places. There is so much more to discover in a world where art, as we know it, is still dominant and an excellent way to paint what is invisible to our eyes: our holy spirit. In a universe created merely by art, RM has been sharing the gate to it with us, and it is up to us to get into a colorful and painful mountain of memories and love.