Museums in Review: Part I - Page 2
Since I had the audience of this unnamed administrative assistant, I took the opportunity to ask two questions:
Why are there so many abstract art pieces on display and why don't you devote an entire gallery to living North Carolina Artists and an entire gallery to the best North Carolina Artists that have departed us?
The answers: Abstract art is less expensive and therefore more affordable for the larger pieces. Of course, I retorted, "You get what you pay for." And the second answer in regards to the galleries for the North Carolina artists: “It is being considered, and I hope it will be realized.” There currently residing in North Carolina a plethora of accomplished artists, with many interesting works, that would elucidate the abundance of talent in this state.
I have always thought that the North Carolina Museum of Art should cut back on the big abstract pieces, and reserve more wall space for the impressionists (the French and their disciples) and especially, the realists, who have been bullied by the talent less art heavies for decades. Who knows it may become a reality, and North Carolina will eventually have a real museum of art for her tax paying people and their visitors from out of state.
Until that time that I review the new museum, I leave you with these pictures (shot by me at 1/8th of a second, with no tripod) of the three Andrew Wyeth egg tempera paintings that hang on the main floor of the current gallery. Now, this is art we can be proud of, and is currently the best art hanging in the museum. I pray, in the future, there will be other works of art of this quality in the North Carolina Museum of Art's permanent collection or in a visiting exhibit. I am hopeful their art in storage will improve the quality that has been missing in this museum for so very long.
The first Wyeth is titled Weatherside: Inset. The second Wyeth is titled Winter 1946: Below. The third Wyeth is titled The Sea Captain: Below Winter 1946.
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