Art Museum and Traveling

Our last "attraction" on the 11 day/10 night East Coast tour is the Knoxville Museum of Art at World's Fair Park, Knoxville, Tennessee.
This 3 story building has all sorts of modern and mixed media art with an area for children's artwork as well.
One very interesting room was filled with room miniatures behind glass.  Very accurate "doll house" type representations of 17th, 18th,19th Century rooms in Early America, Spain, England, etc.  It was very intricate and reminiscent of some of the places N and I have seen in visiting castles in Spain and early American houses.  I could have spent much more time there absorbing the detail, but the glare from the hall outside the room made some of the parts of the rooms hard to see.

Before I go any further, let me say "modern" art is not my favorite visual art.  I appreciate portraits, landscapes, and pictures that look like what they are depicting.  There was some of this type, but the vast majority of the works were not especially my favorites.  There were large and small paintings, and many of the works were not "paintings" but collages.
One interesting mixed media piece was a representation of a sitting woman made out of coat hanger wire.

One artist created a "sculpture" of the back of his shoulders and head about 3 times life size.


 And another piece looked like someone had dumped out gummy worms on a table.

  Several pieces in the museum were stuff glued over other stuff.


One of the paintings looked upside down, while another had large drips of paint cascading down the entire canvas.  One was a piece of aluminum, shot with bullets making holes and the paint splotched around the holes like blurry flowers.  One piece (small, about 8 X 10) was different colors of confetti glued on a canvas, while a very large painting was "painted" with cosmetics.

It was an interesting place and I am sure the artwork was quite expensive. 

We got back on the bus and traveled a way to a barbecue place for lunch.   Good choice by the driver.   The afternoon consisted of riding and rest stops- followed by supper at La Pinata in Meridian, Miss.  Fairly good Mexican food, if I had been hungry, which I wasn't.

By the way, I'm halfway through my 6th book.  When that is finished, I do have one downloaded on the iPad, I can finish up with and some newspaper crossword puzzles. I also brought some crochet to work on, but I don't do it long, my hands get tired.  

We'll be home Sunday after a long day of traveling with no "attractions"

Thanks for sharing our adventure with us