Subject: Milwaukee Art Museum, etc.
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| Posted On: 7/31/2005 7:58 AM
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Oooh yeah.
Worth the $8.00 fee although the parking for $3 or $6 was just average.
There was a Pissarro, Cross, Renoir, Monet(that blue bridge that appears after you stare at the painting awhile), Warhol (tomato can) and others that I didn't recognize but you folks might have. Their were plenty of paintings that were from the 1600's by people with van or de in their names so you know those were really good.
Jan Victors portraits were pale people that had some green in their faces like for the veins on the backs of our hands, geez who puts green in a face, they were impressive.
I didn't spend much time in the modern or minimal or american or sculpture areas (a Rodin was there), more in the 1600's, 17s. and 1800's, and the most 'stare at a painting time' went to Eduard Von Grutzner and Zurbaran. Grutzner(late 1800 early 1900) did a painting of a few monks or wine cellar workers with one that fell and broke some wine bottles, the painting isn't on the web anywhere but he did other similiar works. Zurbaran (1600's I think) painted monks and had a big maybe 5 foot tall painting of Assissi or whatever, shown below.
MRI's are fun, wierd noises beeping at ya inside a big machine. And of course, a neighbor farmer told me that if I had any bits of metal in my eyes from when I grinded rust off of cars that the metal would come shooting out of my eyes with the magnetic resonance image machine. Geez, its always something to fret about, but there are always people much worse off than me at the VA.
The water temp in Lake Superior is still hypothermial but near the shore it is bearable for short cooling off periods. The beach flies or deer flies sometimes chase ya away though.
Regards, Gil van de von Richmond the elder.
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