Looking out at the law school.
Wondering if anyone actually sat in these chairs before they were purchased.
Look nice, totally NOT comfy. Not for 5'3" moi, not for my 6'4.5" better half.
Another pair of the above chairs sat in front of the window from which I took this.
I was thinking how lovely a place to sit and study, until I thought "but the chairs are really uncomfortable." Oh. Right. Sigh.
Naturally I did not take a pic of the descriptive info for this piece. I like the shadows........
This image cobbled together from two separately taken.
Calder. I love him.
(feeling that the piece above is stifled, and wants to be out in the open air where it can breathe and move.......)
Ok.
Here's a challenge question.
Care to take a guess as to the origin of these lovely things?
Both of the art historians in our party were astonished to learn that the above are Chinese. !!!
From about 5200 years ago.
Don't they look like the American southwest?
Amazing.
The description (which I amazingly thought to capture) says nothing about how these large pieces managed to survive for over 5000 years. They are earthenware, which is more fragile than stoneware or porcelain. Freezing and thawing can ruin earthenware (have you ever left clay flowerpots outside over the winter and had them fall to pieces?), let alone any sort of mechanical injury...... They must have been put somewhere Very Safe Indeed for them to be here now for our eddification and bemusement.
The lucite cubes with the numbers on them (letting you know which description goes with which piece) are about an inch on a side, for an idea of scale.........
This one's more obviously Chinese.........
This one, on the other hand, also Chinese, has an almost Islamic look, I think.
'Tisn't ... it predates Muhammad by several centuries.
Chinese ceramics.
Once in a while, when you get all the firing conditions *exactly* right, the oxidation of copper in the kiln gives you this astonishing red.
One last piece.
Korean, 8th or 9th century, "roof tile end."
Love it and love the way it is displayed.........
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2 comments:
Nice tour!
Thanks! It's a nice little museum. I hadn't been there since the addition was finished and inhabited, so I was interested to see what sorts of new-to-me things were on display.
They also had a large exhibit called The Lens of Impressionism which was photographs taken when the impressionists were working, along with (minor) impressionist works of the same coastline, buildings, whatever.
It was moderately interesting, but No Photography.
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