About Me!

I am an art lover who from childhood has loved travel, art, museums, crafting, dance, and food! 

What am I doing?  What is going on with this blog?  There are so many out there talking about art and travel and even some talking about both.  So why add to them?  Here's my reason: when I got my MA in Art History we had to take two exams (comps for those of you who have experienced this), one was on our focus area and one was on Western Art, yes ALL of Western Art.  They basically told you that you that you would be given four questions and you had to answer three and the questions could come from anytime between Ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture to Contemporary Art.  So what do you do when faced with questions that could come from almost all known history?  You read a book like Gardner's Art Through the Ages.  There are a number of surveys of art history but I read this one.  There are almost 1200 pages in my book.  I estimate I read about 800 of them.

So after passing this exam that covers roughly 3000 years of art one would think that I would want nothing to do with this book or anything in it.  But you would be wrong.  Having burned all of these images of sculptural groups, cathedrals, paintings, and performance works to the darkest recesses of my sub-conscious I find them constantly being shoved onto my present by my brain in the strangest of juxtapositions.  I'm watching television and in pops a painting by Jasper Johns, I'm wandering through a new city and boom, there's a vista that looks surprisingly like a work by a member of the Ashcan School.  I'm hiking and I've got Thomas Moran vistas flowing through my mind.

Luckily I'm crazy enough to love it and love going to museums and seeing new things all the time.  I have an incredibly patient and supportive husband who loves trying new things and traveling and we both love to chow down almost any time of the day.  So come along with me as I explore those real life connections between art and life!