Farewell, Minneapolis

The farewell tour of Minneapolis included a visit to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In the spirit of Halloween, a sculpture.

As a matter of fact, the whole post will be sculptures. I danced around becoming a sculpture major in my Fine Arts program. I still carry a love for figures to this day. Buddha's come in an enormous array of poses.

I was fed a steady diet of Greek and Roman sculpture in art school.

I grew to appreciate the more abstract views of the figure.

How far could an artist go with deconstructing a figure?

Sometimes the figure didn't even need to be there to convey presence.*

* detail of above photo showing dog tags used to make up the sculpture

Is a figure the sum of its parts? Do multiple jack-in-the-boxes make you immortal?

Or is sculpture an outline of a moment captured in time?

An art museum is a great place to ponder all kinds of questions, or just to sit and absorb. Art helps you explore the question - What does it mean to be human?  If you stand still long enough, art offers a small respite from the ordinary. And sometimes we all need that.