March 30 -- Kemper, part 1

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The Kemper and the Nelson are close neighbors.

We decided that since we were so close, and the Kemper so (relatively) small, we'd go walk through.

The skies were glorious, on the 30th!

Signs said photography for personal use was allowed, as long as the piece was in the museum's permanent collection.

Sarah, 2006, Mike Lyon.

The whole work is made of this sort of lines....

Not sure why I like this, but I do.  The extreme value contrast, the bright colors.....

Wayne Thibaud.  Dark Cones, watercolor over sugarlift etching.

Chuck Close.  Lorna 1, ink jet print on kozo paper.

This is huge.  I bet the image is a yard across!  The part that blows my mind is that it is an ink jet print!  Done in 1990!

The ink jet printers I know about print narrow strips across the paper, back and forth, the length of the paper.

If that's how this was done, it is mind-bogglingly perfect.  No hint of lines across the paper.

Every detail is perfect.

Except the edges of the print, beyond the image.  They are endearingly smeary, in contrast to the crisply perfect image in the center.

I love the juxtaposition of totally perfect, and unpredictably random.....

This next image is from the top of the print.  I love it by itself.  Tulips?

Love Georgia O'Keefe.

Yellow Jonquils 3, 1936.

Helen Frankenthaler.

Coral Wedge, 1972.

I call this photograph "Dad, with Dessert."  I neglected to record the info with the painting, alas.

(note extremely shiny floor, of which, more, anon)



Ok, I think this offends me.  Not the work itself, but the fact that there are no quilts in this museum, and yet this proto-quilt, which was pinned in bits to the wall, rather than turned into the quilt it obviously wants to be, is seen as museum-worthy.

I'm not down with that.  Not at all.

This would have made a perfectly nice quilt.

And if it's art in this form, surely it's even more artful when finished, rather than so obviously UNfinished?

Humph, I say............

Ok, walking away from that..................



Many people are having a lot of fun wrapping wet fabric around rusty stuff, spraying or dunking in vinegar, and walking away for a while, to return later, unwrap, and see what has transpired.

Who knows, perhaps their work will end up in a museum.........

This would be, and I quote, "rust on salted wood."

Charlotte Anderson, 2006-2007, made by Esther Solondz

I did not record the info with this, I just assumed it is by Dale Chihuly.

Love the light on the wall behind the pieces......

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