Saturday we went to the Eiteljorg Museum to see the "steel ponies" exhibit. The Eiteljorg is a western/native American, art museum. It was nice but Bill said after you've beento Barber Motor Sports Museum, everything pales in comparison. But anything about motorcycles floats his boat so it was fun. Here are a couple of his favs;
Have you ever seen Easy Rider? They die at the end. You know how I feel about that. So this is the bike that Fonda was riding when his character was killed in the movie.
There were several photographs on the walls in the exhibit. These were my favorites;
Look harder and you'll see what tickled me about this one!
And this one was funny to me because I love it when when they try hard to show the diversity in things.
Then we went throught the rest of the museum because I LOVE art!
Check these out;
This last one was my favorite. Let me try to explain why...first of all, I bet this never actually happened to the artist. You know, riding along a trail and being attacked by a Grizzly. Nonetheless, what really awes me is an artists ability to visualize/imagine what a situation or a scene would look like - in great detail - in their head! - with emotion - and THEN be able to put that image on canvas. You can see the fear in the horses eyes. You can almost feel yourself there. Doesn't that blow you away?? I could probably draw a horse (standing still, sideways) but the details would elude me. I could never get the muscles right or be able to convey an emotion. Tremendous.
And then there was this moment;
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