Sheldon

My favorite painting at the Sheldon would have to be the work by Hans Hofman titled The City. I interpret this abstract painting to be a city block and all the "happenings" of a large city portrayed on the fringes of this road. It is also a very vividly colorful painting. It really jumps out and grabs your attention at first glance. The feeling this work gives is that of a happy city experience, I feel this mostly from the color choice.

This work brings out possibilities in art that haven't been explored to date, and may never be.

Now that I have said something nice about a piece of art I believe that it is time to say some very rude things about what I like to call crap. For example Robert Henri's work entitled Happy New Year 1915. Maybe I don't understand this particular drawing, and I do hope so. If there is no hidden dimension, or optical illusion that I am not seeing in this picture, than it honestly looks like someone gave a two year old boy with chocolate around his mouth, and a dirty loaded diaper a black crayon, and told him to have fun on a piece of paper. This brings us back to the age old question; what is art? Some may consider this art. I for one am not one of these blind followers. I am not an artist so something my 21/2 year old sister and/or I could draw I don't consider a skill that I believe an artist would posses. But we mustn't always dwell. No, no; we mustn't dwell. There must be some art that is worth the swift finger strokes of yrs truly typing away like a mad hound.

Which reminds me of another work that I passed by on my little knap-sack field trip to the cute little museum I visited. This work was entitled Still Work, and was painted by John F. Francis. This is a oil on canvas painting, set very much in real life, making it a realistic painting. You can tell that Francis put a lot o time and effort into his craft. I can truly