A day in Funkytown

Cruz will be back tomorrow so this is my last day filling in, and tomorrow I just have to come in and do one thing that will take an hour at most, so Angela and I are going to use the time to go to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. I love culture days.

We've been there once, but we just meandered through and checked out all the standard pieces and didn't see a separate exhibition. This time we have tickets for Gauguin and Impressionism. Our friend Suzanne said a really interesting thing about Gauguin at church last night during a discussion about perspective--that Gauguin was extremely willing to see things from a different angle and didn't approach anything with preconceived ideas about how it should or shouldn't be. How refreshing. The example she gave was, while many of the Impressionists had one opinion about the women in Tahiti, Gauguin chose to break away from the rest of the Impressionists and paint a different reality. So now my interest is peaked. The Kimbell Art Museum website says, "What Gauguin did was ceaselessly to question the nature of Impressionism itself. He asked questions of a movement that was itself always asking questions about the nature and role of art in modern society." Much love for the inquisitive type! And people who can effectively question AND paint...now that's somethin'.

This trip to the museum is actually a lingering present for Angela's birthday that was on the 9th. We're going to Joe T. Garcia's too! We've never been there and we've been told that we must go. So we'll get our fajitas on (and perhaps a margarita) and then try not to burp as we're appreciating beauty and creativity in the silence of the marbled museum gallery. Such challenges in life.