I decided to take a break from the Richmond Mural Project, although I may return since I have several left to share. On Thursday John and I went to the VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) to see a special exhibit. This was a group of works collected by Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Here is the description from the museum website:
Beginning in 1962, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel began collecting contemporary works of art. A librarian and a postal worker, respectively, the New York City couple dedicated one of their salaries to purchasing art, and in a few decades they had amassed a collection encompassing thousands of works. In a unique partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Vogels distributed 2,500 works from that collection, with fifty works going to one art museum in each state, including VMFA. The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States showcases all fifty works received by VMFA in 2008. While the Vogel collection is best known for its examples of Minimal and Conceptual art, the donations also explore numerous directions of the Post-Minimalist period including Figurative and Neo-Expressionist works.
Okay, so do you have the idea? Now these are two pictures I took from the same wall of the exhibit. However only one of is a piece of art. (The title of the work is the title I have given this collage.) The other is not. Care to hazard a guess?
logically the art should be left, but art being art, i will go for right...an almost abstract collage....allison may i say a big thank you for the lovely words on Kirsty's wedding
