City Mouse, Country Mouse

 

While visiting family up in Michigan, this past July, we took a field trip to the Detroit Institute of Art Museum (DIA).  I took lots of photos on my handy cell phone so I could relive the day later.  I hadn't been to a really good art museum in YEARS, so was in heaven for the day.  Later, when I reviewed my pictures, all of them on my phone, I noticed a pattern.  The pictures I took at the museum, in The City, had similar compositions to other photos on my phone that I had taken in and around where I live, namely The Country.  And so I bring you my personal Smart Phone Retrospective of Art as seen through a former city dweller, now imbedded in the country.  Art is what you make it, not where.

 

Above is a room in the modern wing of the DIA with art by various artists.

And below, unassuming yard art as found next to a barn in Levasy, Missouri.

 

 

Below, a mural by Diego Rivera.  It's been one of my favorite installments since first seeing it as a kid on a class trip.

I highly recommend the on-line virtual tour of the mural.

 

 

And apparently I am still fascinated by "industrial art", because here's my view of a grain elevator in  Kansas City, Kansas.

 

 

Now a collage assemblage piece by Raymond Johnson (American 1927-'95).

 

Which has its country inspiration, photographed in Levasy, Missouri.

(You will be wanting to visit Levasy- it's chock full of "art" in a bucolic setting!)

 

 

Finally, an abstract print by Fernand Leger.

I love his color and design sense.

 

 

And here's my daughter, Victoria, playing with collage self portraiture.

I love her design sense too.

 

This is not Photoshopped.  She is holding a magazine clipping up to her face.

Neat, huh?

My china cabinet in the background adds an architectural element a la America Gothic by Grant Wood.  (Internet photo below)

 

 

But now I digress, because American Gothic is housed in Chicago, which is another trip. ha!

Thank you for visiting my exhibit.

Please be sure to sign my guest book and leave a comment on your way out. ;)