Yes, this person was in the standard 3 o'clock in-the-afternoon coma position when someone came along and carved him. Oh well......
We went to the High Museum of Art today, way out in the big city.
And I have to say, this museum is THE MOST unecessarily complicated building ever. You could walk around for hours without finding any art of any kind. I don't get it. There's acres of empty space and they seem to take pride in hiding tiny little signs indicating where things are, regulating them to only being posted by elevators, which are also not easy to find. Even the helpful maps you can pick up look as though they were deliberately designed to be as unhelpful, vague, and flat as possible.
Aside from that, it's a lovely building and of course, the art is beyootiful.
Winding walkways....kids like them. You can see two kids hanging on out on it in the middle.
Loved this piano from the 1800's.
They had lovely paintings....
A needlepoint chair and lots of centuries-old furniture....
And last but not least......
This is what I look like when I wake up in the morning.
And finally, a mysterious house dead center of the city. Why is it there? What is the story? We don't know, but it IS for sale. Hmm......pack up the rocking chairs!
3 comments:
That museum definitely looks confusing. Glad it was full of treasures though. And thumbs up you got your boys to go to an art museum!
Do you think your bear, possum, birds and other assorted wildlife could find you if you moved?? If not, it's not worth moving.
Good point!
The boys were not with us today, though. And it's a good thing because I think they would have been bored. We have a natural history/dinosaur museum they need to see, though!
I'm with you on these museums with sooooo much wasted space. Guess the architecture is part of the scenery.
Just for the record, the teapot you liked is from the Rococo period, late 18th century. We have a lot at the museum where I used to give tours. It's elaborate, fanciful and fun, much different from the former periods. The new Americans reacted to the excesses of the style by popularizing neo-classic which is clean and simple. And that's my little art lecture for the day!
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