Art Institute
I went to the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday. The photography and contempory sections sucked and made me wonder how works of art are chosen for a museum, but most everything else was quite amazing. I think I was most impressed with the European Oil Paintings. They were quite breath taking and make it quite apparent that we really have lost something over the ages. I did take photos of some of them, but I won’t post them because the photographs really don’t do the paintings justice. I believe the texture of an oil painting is what makes it a unique medium and this is not something I can adequately show in the photographs without being able to light the paintings myself.
Unfortunately, I had a prior engagement and had to leave the museum before I was finished looking at the European oil paintings which, of course, are what I was most enthralled with. But I did get some see some medieval Polish armor on the way out which was pretty awesome.
I was kind of hoping to see some watercolor, but if the museum had it, I sure couldn't find it and the museum curators sure couldn't tell me where it was.