01-21-13 Peace and Quiet

Today's image was taken only a short time after yesterday's and yet they seem to me to be a world apart. And, frankly, I enjoy the world depicted in this photo.This photo was taken at the High Art Museum of Atlanta and I was lucky enough to visit shortly after it opened on a Saturday morning. And for much of the time I was there, I had several of the galleries to myself, including this one of the top floor of the main wing.There is a juxtaposition of warm and cool tones in this photo, accentuated by the way my camera sees light. The wood floor is very warm of course, but the ceiling light (which is daylight) is obviously blue. Did the designers of this space consider this? I would guess they did . . .

09-04-12 I Like Frank

This is certainly not the first time I've posted a photo of Frank, by Chuck Close. One of the more interested illicit uses of one of my photos from this blog involved Frank (click here to read a tale of theft and Creative Commons copyright misdeeds).Finally, this is not the first art gallery photo. In fact art galleries are one of my favorite places to take pictures. Why not take a few minutes to look at a few of my gallery interiors? Just click here.And, as long as I've gone overboard with links in this post, here's the one art gallery post in this blog that I like the most.

03-24-12 He's Watching Us

I've returned to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. And I've taken another photo of Frank, by Chuck Close.

The Quiet Gallery

The African Gallery

Just beyond the pottery featured in yesterday's post I encountered this scene. Maybe it's not at special as I think it is, but I liked how the human on the left complemented the figure on the right. It results in symmetry that would be absent with the standing woman. This was taken at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Fixed Orbits

In this case I was confronted by this collection of pottery at the beginning of the museum's African collection. The spherical shape and the brilliant arrangement of these pots reminded me of circling planets. Thus the title of today's post.

Artistic Moments

I have said that I can remember taking many of the photos I have even years after the actual capture. I suppose I'm pretty focused when I do that. (Bad pun, I know) But I also take photos that are forgotten. This one would be an example. I was spending a little time going through my travel photos and came across this scene from the Louvre in Paris.These children and their teacher/mother/???? have set up shop by the easel of an artist who has permission to paint a copy of one of the paintings in this gallery, though when I look at the copy and the wall I can't see which one. The copyist is gone but the observers remain. Why, I don't know. And which gallery this is, I couldn't say. There are many unanswered questions. Maybe someone reading this has answers. . . ?

03-25-10 Betty

Betty is my 89 year old aunt. At age 18 she left South Dakota for California and has lived there ever since. At age 18 she showed a willingness to explore and she recently showed the same willingness when we carted her all over the Los Angeles area.

In this photo she is sitting complacently in the lobby of the Norton Simon Art Museum in Pasadena. I thought a full day of visiting places like Hollywood, the Santa Monica pier and an art gallery would do her in. But she never slowed us down!