Today we went to the BYU Art Museum. I have always enjoyed visiting this museum because 1) its free and 2) it has really good exhibitions. We started by viewing the beginnings of their Religious Art show that is going to get larger as Christmas gets closer then descended to the lower level and walked through "People in a Hard Land" - Paintings of Life in the southwest, many of which where painted by Maynard Dixon and Minerva Teichert (possibly my favorite painter). We then walked into "Think Flat - The Art of Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami". Though I have never heard of Murakami before, I have seen many of Andy Warhols works when they came to The UofO's Museum of Art. Marilyn was stunning as usual and the Campbells Soup can was lovely but I have never seen his interactive piece of work "Silver Clouds". I loved it and want to take Ian back to see it. It was fun and quite peaceful. I took Rubye out of her stroller, laid out her blanket and let her experience "modern art" at its finest. I hope she realizes the efforts I am putting in to expose her to culture.
This is a brief explanation of "Silver Clouds" I got off THIS website.
The Silver Clouds continually surprises viewers' expectations and is the result of a collaboration between artist Andy Warhol and engineer Billy Kluver. Exhibited in 1966 at the Leo Castelli Gallery,Silver Clouds created an ethereal, joyful atmosphere, and challenged traditional expectations of art by mingling with and touching the viewer. Kluver's knowledge of technology helped bring Warhol's vision to life. The engineer recalls that their original plan was to somehow make floating light bulbs but that when his research group at Bell Labs showed Warhol a sample of the material scotchpak—a metalized plastic film made by 3M that could be heat-sealed—he is reported to have said, "Let's make clouds." The clouds, filled with helium and oxygen, floated through the gallery on air currents, bumping into each other and into viewers in the space.
