Saturday in Seattle

Where does the time go? 

I'm writing this on Sunday evening, at 10:15 p.m., having had a 75% catch-up on Blipfoto with your journals. I can't do justice to all I saw at Seattle Art Museum with my daughter M yesterday; that museum has a wealth of fascinating art from many cultures and time periods.

Our focus was the exhibit of all 60 of Jacob Lawrence's iconic paintings in The Migration Series, which runs through April 23. From the museum's information sheet: "The series comprises 60 tempera paintings and chronicles in words and pictures the mass exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North in the decades after the First World War." 

The paintings are small, making it an intimate experience to see them all in one room. There was a simple sentence under each of the paintings; M said the exhibit reminded her of a children's book. 

One of the museum's docents was leading a group while we were in the room, and we benefitted from being able to hear the additional information she provided about the series. I was entranced by how seemingly simple the art was, yet so profound in the statement it  made.

We saw many other fascinating artworks, from African masks to ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, and were intrigued by the giant mouse and sleeping man in the Mann und Maus (Man and Mouse) sculpture done in 1991-1992 by German artist Katharina Fritsch, born in 1956. I put two images of it in the extras -- take a look!

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