Went to the Monet in Normandy exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of

[WCGreen]

Art today....

What a wonderful exhibit...

But the people on the audio tour, art experts, started to make me laugh with expressions such as this gem...

You could see he had energy in his hand by the way the brush strokes lay...

That, to me at least, is like a sports announcer uttering a gem such as this... The hits are even at two apiece...

And sportscasters all talk with that hyper excited emphasis...

The art talkers speak as if they are exasperated that they have to let their precious words escape their mouths and share them with us pion's...

Sportcasters talk up to people and the art experts talk down to people...

I guess it all boils down to style...

I do learn stuff from sportscasters and I certainly gained some knowledge about Normandy and the Impressionists from the art experts I listened to today...

I just find it hilarious that both deem it necessary to follow a patter pattern in order to communicate their thoughts about their chosen profession ...

[MichiganVote]

1. I think these descriptions are silly too. But I love Monet. Like a walk in nature without the bugs.

[WCGreen]

2. It was absolutely sumptuous ....

See there, I can use one of them artsy fartsy words and I only took one art class in college...

[MichiganVote]

7. I took many and Art history was tragically boring.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. How lucky for you!

I wish that show would come out to California!

His work is so damn luminous!

I've never listened to the art show audio tours .......

I guess I'll never know what I missed...

Did you take B?

:hi:

[WCGreen]

4. Yes and she loved it....

I made her giggle and she actually gasped a few times...

We listened to Claude Debussy on the way to get in the mood....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. What fun for you both!

I am glad!

Did you realize that earlier you spelled it Money?

It did take me a minute to figure it out!

:hug:

[WCGreen]

6. Yep, Mr. type to fast.....

That's me....

[Duncan Grant]

8. Feel like a pion? Art experts talking down to you?

You poor dear. :eyes:

Speaking of "precious" words, how did that article you were writing about the "supposedly" largest bathhouse in America turn out? I'd love to read it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=221&topic_id=38347&mesg_id=38361

[WCGreen]

9. It kind of fizzled out....

My angle was going to be that they could build, or erect, a building without public funds but the big time developers can't do a thing in Cleveland with out tax money...

The owner kind of didn't want to go there...

So I am going to give a little while and try and get into to talk to him this summer...

[devilgrrl]

10. I used to work there...

'84-'86. Bet some of the same people are there. :scared:

[WCGreen]

11. They are redoing the whole museum

They are almost doubling the size...

[devilgrrl]

13. Cool, more BAD 20th Century Art...

I swear, they have WORST 20th Century collection ever. Bad Roschenberg, Bad Pollock, just BAD.

[WCGreen]

17. They are planning on more photography....

And I realize the CMA is not a top tier museum anymore...

But for an almost backwater city now, Cleveland still has a fine collection...

[devilgrrl]

20. Not top tier for 20th century but great far-eastern and pre-columbian.

Say, are Cagney & Lacey still guarding the entrances?

There were these two broads who work as guards and took themselves waaaaaaay too seriously when I was there. We referred to them as 'Cagney & Lacey. Bet any amount of money that they're still there.

[WCGreen]

23. That's funny...

But they had about twenty or more security folks all over the place...

There was probably $ 35 Million in Monets...

They had a panel from the Water Lilies...

[asthmaticeog]

12. You misspelled "peon."

Love,

An art enthusiast

x(

[WCGreen]

16. I love the art....

I'm just not an expert....

[sir_captain]

14. My grandfather was a curator there for many years

he's the one who built up the chinese art collection, which is among the best outside of China.

[WCGreen]

15. I love that collection....

[sir_captain]

22. Along with

the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City, it really has easily the best collection of Asian art in the Western world. I have some very fond memories...

[kwassa]

18. Sherman Lee?

He was famous as a curator there.

It is a wonderful collection of Asian art, and I like the wing designed by Marcel Bruer, too.

[sir_captain]

21. He was Sherman's right hand man, if you will

My grandfather was the curator of Asian art when Sherman was director of the museum, and it was their collaboration that brought all of that art to our shores.

[devilgrrl]

24. Dr. Sherman Lee is your grand-dad?

He was the curator when I was there.

[sir_captain]

25. My grandfather

was Wai-Kam Ho, who was curator of Oriental and Chinese art from about 1959-1983 before he moved to the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City. He was Sherman Lee's right hand man and partner, if you will. When did you work there?

[devilgrrl]

26. I worked there 1984-86

I was a CIA student and worked there as a guard... an interesting experience to say the least.

[sir_captain]

27. Ah, so you just missed him

It's a great museum.

[devilgrrl]

28. Very good museum :-)

With a great Far East collection. :7

[sir_captain]

29. Yeah, it sure is.

And it's the collection that pretty much introduced asian art to the concepts of western art history scholarship as well.

[kwassa]

19. You should read art criticism, it will really make you gag.