Hand me some holy water
My GPS needs it. I went to the Frick art museum again with mom because they were having a 'once in a lifetime' art exhibit of Rembrandt's, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Hogarth's Monets and several others. It was once in a life time because it turns out that the Frick's kids' wills said the NY house art can't be at the PA house and vice versa.
I went there in March but this time the GPS took us a completely new way AND a completely new way back that including going straight into downtown Pittsburgh which is where no one wants to go because it's rough to get out of (actually not too bad tonight) and took us thru multiple old neighborhoods filled with beautiful old homes. It also took me across Homewood Cemetery filled with some of Pittsburgh's richest and most famous. Didn't even know it was there (I would have thought they would be in the Cemetery of the Alleghenies) So guess who has to go back now.
Frick was a coal robber baron with more money than Croesus and less scruples most likely given the robber barons of the 1800s (He had multiple homes including a 104 room one on Boston's north shore) He collected so much art he actually plastered over doors and windows with it all. He collected local artists at first but when the 'art snobs' didn't like that he started collecting the grand masters. One of the more interesting collections was Millet's even though it wasn't to my tastes. It was all pastels on paper and very fragile. The one I took a pic of sadly didn't come out.
The Rembrandt was a self portrait and portraits were a lot of what Frick collected. I do not care much for those (he also has a large permanent collection of religious art which is disturbing), his wife and daughter collected more landscapes which I prefer.
I was hoping for something more but I'm glad we went. How often do I get to see 36 old masters this close to home? We couldn't take the house tour because it was Sold Out (the exhibit nearly was too) I loved that they let me in as a teacher even though professor almost never counts (even though we make less than k-12 on average). Have a little taste of the exhibit.
My favorite in the whole exhibit. George Wetzel
Rembrandt's self portrait
My cousin who was going to come couldn't, having a bad numbness day in the legs. And that made me think of this post Covid buy all your tickets on line thing (this one you could do both thankfully) because of stuff like this. Everyone now wants no ticket agents, buy everything online. I ran into this multiple times, today could have been, in St. Louis, in Santa Fe. It's SO ableist. You have someone like me and many of my friends with chronic illnesses, this prebuying a ticket means a lot of lost money potentially. I don't mind for one time events like a concert but the zoo? A museum? I find it obnoxious.
I did end up doing little retail therapy to take my mind off things, I pulled the trigger on the Hazbin tarot (in spite of the HUGE international shipping fee). Her art is amazing
I went there in March but this time the GPS took us a completely new way AND a completely new way back that including going straight into downtown Pittsburgh which is where no one wants to go because it's rough to get out of (actually not too bad tonight) and took us thru multiple old neighborhoods filled with beautiful old homes. It also took me across Homewood Cemetery filled with some of Pittsburgh's richest and most famous. Didn't even know it was there (I would have thought they would be in the Cemetery of the Alleghenies) So guess who has to go back now.
Frick was a coal robber baron with more money than Croesus and less scruples most likely given the robber barons of the 1800s (He had multiple homes including a 104 room one on Boston's north shore) He collected so much art he actually plastered over doors and windows with it all. He collected local artists at first but when the 'art snobs' didn't like that he started collecting the grand masters. One of the more interesting collections was Millet's even though it wasn't to my tastes. It was all pastels on paper and very fragile. The one I took a pic of sadly didn't come out.
The Rembrandt was a self portrait and portraits were a lot of what Frick collected. I do not care much for those (he also has a large permanent collection of religious art which is disturbing), his wife and daughter collected more landscapes which I prefer.
I was hoping for something more but I'm glad we went. How often do I get to see 36 old masters this close to home? We couldn't take the house tour because it was Sold Out (the exhibit nearly was too) I loved that they let me in as a teacher even though professor almost never counts (even though we make less than k-12 on average). Have a little taste of the exhibit.
My favorite in the whole exhibit. George Wetzel
Rembrandt's self portrait
My cousin who was going to come couldn't, having a bad numbness day in the legs. And that made me think of this post Covid buy all your tickets on line thing (this one you could do both thankfully) because of stuff like this. Everyone now wants no ticket agents, buy everything online. I ran into this multiple times, today could have been, in St. Louis, in Santa Fe. It's SO ableist. You have someone like me and many of my friends with chronic illnesses, this prebuying a ticket means a lot of lost money potentially. I don't mind for one time events like a concert but the zoo? A museum? I find it obnoxious.
I did end up doing little retail therapy to take my mind off things, I pulled the trigger on the Hazbin tarot (in spite of the HUGE international shipping fee). Her art is amazing