Trish and I spent most of the day at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, now ten years old.
Sam Walton’s daughter, Alice, is the impetus and major donor to this fabulous museum having donated more than $317,000,000 to its establishment so far. Her inspiration and work with architect Moshe Safdie have led to this creation of a 217,000 square foot complex of museum buildings that seem to hang between sky and water.
The museum is always open free of charge thanks to Walmart, and, there are special funds to bring children here on field trips all paid for.
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| The Crystal Bridges complex. |
Inside it is all magic.There are wonderful mixtures of art that call for new thinking and perceptions of how we see things. Right in the first gallery there is a juxtaposition of Charles Wilson Peal’s classic George Washington beside Howard Finster’s primitive religious Washington.
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| Side by side they are both different. |
One whole gallery was dedicated to images of beauty. What do we think is beautiful when we think of humans and how are those different ideas played out in art work.
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What we wished for was to be here longer and come back multiple times. What is human beauty to you? |
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