The High

Museum. (don't think I'm doing bad things)

Day 6: I am thankful for fabulous art and the amazing stories that go with it.

Today, we took a trip to The High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Art has always been special to me since I grew up going to folk art shows with my dad and grandmother, but this was "that fancy kinda art". I love folk art, and now I know I love other kinds of art as well. 

If I was somewhat artistic, that would be fantastic! But, it looks like I'll have to just enjoy admiring the art and learning about it.

Right now The High Museum has two visiting exhibits: Go West!: Art of the American Frontier and Paris on Peachtree: Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden

The Western art exhibit was really cool. It featured art from around the time Americans started to push farther West [you know, the time where we got all those Buffalo Bill type movies from]. It was an audio guided tour, which was nice because I got to hear a nice lady pointing things out about the pictures I probably would have missed {and it played cute, western sounding music in the background}. Some of the paintings were so real, I could have sworn they were pictures. A lot of the pictures featured cowboys and Indians, some had buffalo and horses. I think the ones I liked the best were the paintings of Yellowstone by Bierstadt.
  
And of course I enjoyed Paris on Peachtree because it was from France. Many of the items were sent over to The High from The Louvre (an art museum in France- the one with The Mona Lisa). They had some of the giant statues on display from the Tuileries Garden, the area outside The Louvre, which was turned into an open air statue museum and a public park. Most of the statues were the classic, naked, Greek statues depicting various gods and goddesses. There were also a lot of paintings depicting scenes from the gardens over the years. Those were unreal. Plus, I have this weird thing about French history... where basically, I just love French history. So, listening to the stories behind many of the paintings was pretty neat.

The High Museum also has a permanent collection of art. I got a chance to walk through that, but I'm pretty sure I missed a lot of it because I was running out of time and it was huge! They have some really amazing, classic, and funky stuff (even some folk art).

The moral of this story is Jessie loves learning things. You should take her to a museum.