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We went to the Museum of American Art today. Libby had it on the list of things she wanted to do, and the rest of us wanted to escape the heat. There's a heat wave here with humidity-adjusted temperatures of 100, 105, 110, 115, and 110 predicted for the next few days.
Everyone knows I'm not much of an art fan, but wow! WOW WOW WOW! I loved that museum. We stayed there the whole day. I loved every minute of it and I could have stayed longer.
Did you ever look at something and instantly think that it is the most beautiful object you've ever seen? That happened to me today. It was the simple marble relief in the picture below. It just shows profiles of five children. I think it it just exquisite.
I also found a new favorite artist. Paul Cadmus (see the collage below). I love his sense of humor. For example, the museum site says, "Public Dock depicts a group of vacationers recoiling from an electric eel that a hapless fisherman has caught. Paul Cadmus conveyed the boisterous atmosphere of an afternoon at the beach: the crush of bodies, the flap of flags on yardarms, the roar of a biplane overhead. A blowsy woman with bottle-blond hair and vivid make-up topples backward with a small child, and a bathing beauty at the lower right realizes what she is swimming with. Cadmus created this as part of his Aspects of Suburban Life series, which was intended for a post office mural. Administrators didn’t appreciate Cadmus’s humor, however, and the project was abandoned."
We went to the Museum of American Art today. Libby had it on the list of things she wanted to do, and the rest of us wanted to escape the heat. There's a heat wave here with humidity-adjusted temperatures of 100, 105, 110, 115, and 110 predicted for the next few days.
Everyone knows I'm not much of an art fan, but wow! WOW WOW WOW! I loved that museum. We stayed there the whole day. I loved every minute of it and I could have stayed longer.
Did you ever look at something and instantly think that it is the most beautiful object you've ever seen? That happened to me today. It was the simple marble relief in the picture below. It just shows profiles of five children. I think it it just exquisite.
I also found a new favorite artist. Paul Cadmus (see the collage below). I love his sense of humor. For example, the museum site says, "Public Dock depicts a group of vacationers recoiling from an electric eel that a hapless fisherman has caught. Paul Cadmus conveyed the boisterous atmosphere of an afternoon at the beach: the crush of bodies, the flap of flags on yardarms, the roar of a biplane overhead. A blowsy woman with bottle-blond hair and vivid make-up topples backward with a small child, and a bathing beauty at the lower right realizes what she is swimming with. Cadmus created this as part of his Aspects of Suburban Life series, which was intended for a post office mural. Administrators didn’t appreciate Cadmus’s humor, however, and the project was abandoned."
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