It is always thrilling to a see a piece of art in person that I have only previously seen in a book. The piece I saw at the museum that fell into this category was Pablo Picasso's Woman With Crow, 1904. It is stunning.
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| Woman With Crow, 1904 |
A piece of art that made me cry - Portrait of a Freedom Fighter by Julian Schnabel. I thought this was a portrait of a woman but is actually about Cuban emigre poet Reinaldo Arenas. I was not familiar with this brilliant painter, sculptor, film maker, artist. Check him out!
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| Portrait of a Freedom Fighter by Julian Schnabel |
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A little about the Toledo Museum of Art from their website: The Toledo Museum of Art’s collection of more than 30,000 works of art ranks among the finest in the United States. In our more than 35 galleries, Sculpture Garden, and Glass Pavilion, discover important, popular, and outstanding works of art, including paintings and sculptures by Bearden, Cézanne, Calder, Close, Cole, Degas, van Gogh, El Greco, Holbein, Kiefer, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Turner; masterworks from antiquity and Asia; decorative arts; and highlights from our renowned glass collection.
Glass blowing demonstration in their Glass Pavilion:
I highly recommend this museum. It is well staffed with friendly, helpful people. It is filled with excellent art, has a wonderful cafe, a nice gift shop, a hot shop with daily glass blowing demonstrations, it's not crowded and it's all free.
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