WALKING IT OUT AT THE VMFA

I took a couple of days off of work (and yes I'm back working again today) because for one, I needed the days off, and two, I figured (hoped? expected?) the baby would come - you know, with all my positive thinking and walking and all that. Yesterday, I ran some errands and ended up at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - visiting the museum isn't something I got to do for the whole year that we lived so close to it, and since I needed to walk, where better to hang out than a huge museum with lots of square feet of space meant just for that - meandering? I got tired pretty quickly because my feet felt swollen and refused to participate in a long afternoon of museum exploring, but I still got a good hour in and spent most of it on the 2nd floor, mostly with Neo-expressionists and Egyptian/Roman art. I shall come back with baby in tow to explore the 3rd floor.

View out from the cafe.

Orange shells.

Guards of the paintings

What a lovely deck you have.

I love this painting - have to go back to remember the name of the artist.

I was held captive by how striking and creepy this piece was in person. It's by Julian Schnabel, titled 'Understanding Self-Hate (1981)', oil and collaged fabric on velvet.

wall painting

I stared and thought for a while at how the lighting on this piece matters quite a bit.

This is a portrait painting from the late 3rd-4th century from Rome, called "Faiyum Portrait of a Woman, done by the encaustic technique, in which pigment was added to heated beeswax and applied to a wooden panel. Isn't it fantastic?

She is way too comfortable in there....

Sculpture garden. I wanted to walk on the stones in the water.

Then I came home and ate a bowl of cherries.
The end.