Contemporary Art Center

Recently I visited the Contemporary Art Center.

Some images.

 I really responded to the architecture and the materials

of the building itself.  I liked the building better than most 

of the exhibits.

 In fact, most of the floors were taken over by an 

art is craft interactive show that was a bit annoying.

Interactive displays asked you to scream, some displays

were noisy and it felt more like a fad than interesting

work.  Nothing sticks.  Three whole floors dedicated

to this stuff.  However, some elements caught 

my eye and I isolated them with my camera.

 Child art from one of the interactive galleries.

 Another nice element to the building was the views.

 The second floor had work by Hema Upadhyay.

The work is remniscent of the slums of India.

Collecting

I re-watched  Herb and Dorothy recently with Jace.  

I wish we were in the position to collect art.  

A collection of mine and Jace's blended aesthetics that change over time.  

We do have a few of Matt Lock's works 

and we have a postcard from a girl 

who makes photographs for postcards.  

I don't remember her name.    

Currently exhibiting at the Cincinnati Art Museum is a

show of selections from the collection of Emily Rauh Pulitzer

Think I will go see her this afternoon.

Goodbye January

 Ebe's new winter gear.

 Night walk.

Hotel 21C's 24 hour museum's

fiber optic light display.

The Taft's carpets + vintage Christmas ornaments

The Taft Museum's Carpet... I told you they were nice.

Other nice articles from the Taft.  May have shown these before.

The Taft had an antique Christmas Ornament Show

on display while we were there.  A lot of nice texture.

Ceramics, Metal and Glass

More from the Cincinnati Art Museum.

 Both of the above pieces are from Iran.  I saw many blue lions in the Iran Art section.

Lions represented royalty and strength and are oftentimes depicted with the sun.

I am still researching the blue lion to see what significance the color plays, if any.

 The two above images are Chinese glass bowls.  I was drawn to the

creamy colors.  They also reminded me of FireKing ceramics

and 1960's Tupperware (see below).

 FireKing

Tupperware

This contemporary ceramic piece is my current favorite.

Taft Art Museum

Yesterday we went to the Taft Art Museum 

Funny, because whenever I hear William Taft

I think of him stuck in a bathtub.

The museum had an extremely nice asian

collection, mostly ceramics.

 All the fu dogs reminded me of my shih tzu, Ebe.

The museum also had great carpets.

I should have taken pictures.

 

Funny Museum Finds

 As I approached this painting I asked myself, What's going on with this horse?

 Other than the work's ambiguous subject matter (how did that horse get onto that tiny island?  Is he scared of the mermaid?) I noticed that the horse's head is too small for its body and so is its tiny tail.  Other than that, he seems pretty happy.

What I found most funny about this was it is a Goya painting!