This morning we took advantage of the free admission at the Denver Art Museum on the first Saturday of every month. It had been a long time since I'd been in an Art Museum. I loved it. The first exhibition we saw was Landscapes, from the Impressionism era (my favorite style). It's amazing to me how painters can capture light, beauty, the human soul, and so much more on canvas and leave much to the viewer's interpretation and thought. Then we went on to the Western exhibition...faces of Indians on horses, their honor, and the freedom that was violently stripped from them shown on their faces. A people with so much to offer, yet outnumbered and forced to live on reservations so as to give them their "freedom." How ironic.
We ended at the African exhibition. A people with so much vitality, culture, and roots.
I was reminded of the fact that I want to go more often to the Art Museum to see God's beauty and heart on canvas.
~n
3 comments:
how fun...sounds like the paintings were very moving.
twin
Ah, Naomi, we have so much in common.
I just finished reading a trilogy by Jane Kirkpatrick about Madame Marie Dorion-Venier-Toupin who accompanied the Astoria Company from Iowa to Astoria a few years after Lewis and Clark's expedition. She was an Indian woman, and settled and died in the Oregon Country, married to a Frenchman. The trilogy was such an eye-opener. Perhaps you can find these second-hand, and if not, let me know, and I will ship them to you... "A Name of Her Own," "Every Fixed Star," and "Hold Tight the Thread." Along with you, my heart is stirred by our Native Americans and how our early government (and even now sometimes) stripped them of so much. Anyway, enough diatribe. Hope to talk to you later. Love, Mom Heidi
Me again. I also meant to say that you would probably really enjoy the Aboriginal art here in Australia, as well as their history. It's similar to, but so much harsher than, American Indian history. And their art is amazing. I'll see if I can find some sites that show and explain. This is truly a fascinating place.
Mom Heidi
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