Last Tuesday, Caleb & I toured the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). I had neither classes nor research obligations so I stayed in Indianapolis, studied a little and spent time with Caleb. We headed out with no agenda barring enough fuel to get there & back. Once we got to the IMA we grabbed a map to see if anything tripped our trigger on what to see. There is an interesting display of African & Asian art so we headed there. Caleb was into the Buddhas and tomb guards. I liked the gorgeous vases & ewers. We then headed to the area with the renaissance art. Even after seeing them many times, I still find the religious icons to be beautiful. While heading from one display to another Caleb noticed the picture in the upper right, San Giorgio Maggiore (1908) by Monet. I asked him why he noticed it - he said because it was a painting of Venice. We also stopped in to see the one to the left, Self-portrait with Porget and Beret (1629) by Rembrandt. It's pretty neat that our little museum houses some of the masters. When we left the museum building, we drove around the grounds a bit. Maybe that’ll be one of our future field trips!
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