I ran away from home today
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
Shingle Springs, California
September 27, 2009 1:25am CST
So what does that have to do with art? 
Well I was supposed to go volunteer at cat rescue today, and I did. But after that I had lunch and I went to an art museum. Yep, I did. The Crocker Museum in downtown Sacramento.
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/
Last time I went to an art museum, I went with Cary, and while it was interesting seeing art from the perspective of an 8 year old boy (he liked the Warhol exhibit and the primitive culture stuff, but he didn't think too much of the 19th century paintings), I wanted to see some from MY perspective.
There were Dutch paintings and California themed paintings, ceramics by Japanese women, an Asian section, I don't remember what all. Usually I come away with at least one or two things that made an impression. This time, it was the building. Gorgeous wooden doors and stairway, inlaid ceilings and a mosaic floor upstairs. Oh, and one painting of a scene at night and I just liked the way the moon and the light from the moon played over the landscape. Oh yeah, and there was this expressionist looking landscape that I liked. Oh yeah and the inlaid Italian table. Oh yeah and the face on one of the Madonna's...
Would you have liked to go with me?
Well I was supposed to go volunteer at cat rescue today, and I did. But after that I had lunch and I went to an art museum. Yep, I did. The Crocker Museum in downtown Sacramento.
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/
Last time I went to an art museum, I went with Cary, and while it was interesting seeing art from the perspective of an 8 year old boy (he liked the Warhol exhibit and the primitive culture stuff, but he didn't think too much of the 19th century paintings), I wanted to see some from MY perspective.
There were Dutch paintings and California themed paintings, ceramics by Japanese women, an Asian section, I don't remember what all. Usually I come away with at least one or two things that made an impression. This time, it was the building. Gorgeous wooden doors and stairway, inlaid ceilings and a mosaic floor upstairs. Oh, and one painting of a scene at night and I just liked the way the moon and the light from the moon played over the landscape. Oh yeah, and there was this expressionist looking landscape that I liked. Oh yeah and the inlaid Italian table. Oh yeah and the face on one of the Madonna's...
Would you have liked to go with me?7 people like this
20 responses
@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
27 Sep 09
I would of loved to have gone with you I love going to museums I am in south carolina an there are couple here that are nice but my favorite one so far was the Boston musuem an the peabody musueum
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@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
29 Sep 09
I am in Spartanburg but I like going to the reedy falls in greenville
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
OH,where in South Carolina? I have family in Greenville...
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
28 Sep 09
Nah, I'm not much into art. LOL If I go to a museum, I'd much rather go to this one:
http://www.calacademy.org/
Check out the virtual tour.
It's located in the Bay Area. I used to go to there fairly often when I was growing up (back in the day before it was remodeled, of course). Here's a link to that as well:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?blogid=29&entry_id=30575
By what I remember, they had such things as an alligator pit, snakes, a circular fish tank (this is where I saw "Sandy", the great white shark), as well as other cool things that kids love to see. It's a great place for grown ups too!
The last time I ran away I only went to the movies! My husband likes the newer one where you're at. I've never been there though. I usually stick to the ones that are closer to me...that is, when I do go to the theaters.
Happy mylotting!
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
12 Oct 09
absolutely-i love museums.
i keep meaning to make the trip to see the smithsonian,but haven't had the time yet.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
12 Oct 09
that's what i had heard-it's like a museum complex more than one building.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
12 Oct 09
Yes it is and you can walk your feet off and not see it all!
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
27 Sep 09
I would have loved to go with you. It is the one passion I have that cannot be catered to lately. Just reading your description made me drool. 
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
29 Sep 09
NO, I was talking about the brownies and coffee spoken of up there...
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@sweetgirl_k1 (3972)
• United States
28 Sep 09
I've only gone to an art museum one time. That was in one of my art classes in college. Taking that class made me more interested in different artist's and what kind of work they create. My favorite artist is Van Gogh. I have two pieces of his work hanging in my bedroom.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
My 6th grade class took us to the Los Angeles art museum, so I got an earlier start than you did.
Too bad those Van Gogh's aren't originals! :-)
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
Some museums are free though. Art books are great, but then you see the real thing and sometimes it's totally different. Like Michelangelo's David is HUGH and the Mona Lisa is so tiny. You don't realize until you actually see it...
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
27 Sep 09
hi dawnald oh I would so have liked to go with you,oh
'indeed, I love going through art museums and it would
have been fun to be with an 8 year old too. My hubby
always liked the Warhol exhibits too,but he had a lot
of the kid in him. Some of those night scenes where
the artist catches that moonlight just right seem'
almost real,they are truly fascinating to me. The
building itself sounded pretty awe inspiring.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
Oh I love paintings with the moon and the light playing on the water and trees and so on. There was this painting in Hawaii, I'll never forget it. The artist was James Coleman and they wanted $7500 for it. Ouch. But we went back to that gallery several times just to look at it...
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
27 Sep 09
It sounds very interesting & yes i would have liked to go w/u. I think going w/u anywhere would be fun. I would have even joined in w/u singing, lol.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
28 Sep 09
I am sure we would have sounded great, lol.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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27 Sep 09
Hi dawnald,
That sounds like fun, I have not been to a art museum but I have been to The British Museum in London many years age and yes I would have love to come with you, next time let me know and I will, lol!
Tamara
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
Ah, the British Museum is wonderful too, and really it's an art museum too, at least partly. All those Egyptian, Greek and Roman, etc. statues and pottery and so on.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
27 Sep 09
It has been so long since I have been in a city big enough to have a museum like that. I would have loved to tag along. It's so much better than window shopping
for me. I took a lot of art in college and we had many field trips to see the great painting, especially after we had studied the techniques.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
27 Sep 09
I sure would have loved to have gone with you dawn! This museum looks fantastic. I took my daughter to our museum during the last school holidays and she loved it. She relished the dinosaurs’ displays because she had visited that section with her class at school so I got a very interesting lecture on the different types of dinosaurs. She liked the Art Gallery as well, fascinating stuff, I really enjoyed it there especially the 18th century paintings. Let me know when you are going next... (LOL)
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
27 Sep 09
I would have LOVED to of gone with you....
it has been so long since i have toured a museum...whether art, or history or whatever, i have always loved them, but just haven't either found the time, or found someone who would like to go with me (as i am one of thse pathetic people who doesn't like doing things like this on my own...i would rahter have someone to discuss with)
It sounds like you had a lovely day.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
I would have liked to have somebody to discuss it with too!
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
27 Sep 09
I would've gone with ya Dawn! I probably would've gotten us both kicked out of the Museum though. 
On a serious note, I really would have loved to go with you to a place like this! Museums of any kind have always fascinated me and I could easily spend hours in one. Having your Son with would've been great too and I'm sure he had some interesting perspectives on some of the art! "Yes, that 17th century farm landscape WOULD be heaps better if there was a fire truck in it!" 
On a serious note, I really would have loved to go with you to a place like this! Museums of any kind have always fascinated me and I could easily spend hours in one. Having your Son with would've been great too and I'm sure he had some interesting perspectives on some of the art! "Yes, that 17th century farm landscape WOULD be heaps better if there was a fire truck in it!" 1 person likes this
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
Well if you had gotten us kicked out, there was a nice coffee place across the street.
Actually, maybe next time I take the kids, I can do something like that when they start with "I'm boooorrreedd", I can have them tell me how they want to remodel the paintings. 
Actually, maybe next time I take the kids, I can do something like that when they start with "I'm boooorrreedd", I can have them tell me how they want to remodel the paintings. 
@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
27 Sep 09
Hi, Dawnald!
I would have loved it! I'm glad that Miami has a lot of museums, and they have wonderful exhibitions. I enjoy them tremendously. They're well worth playing hookey from other things.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
Better than doing dishes any day of the week! :-)
@dreamweaverjan (3471)
• United States
27 Sep 09
Morning Dawn: I would have loved to gone with you; I've never been anywhere
to have the chance to even go into a museum of any kind; That sucks too!!!
I think it would be wonderful and exciting to see and visit one, just once
in my lifetime I would love to do this but I don't see that happening for me
anytime soon, maybe someday;
For now I just have to enjoy seeing what I can on TV and on the internet and live
it through people like you who share the actual experience;
Thank you for sharing!!! I really enjoyed reading this post!!
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
No museums ever? Must come by and drag you to... St. Louis maybe? on my next trip cross country...
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
27 Sep 09
You mean that we have art in common too? Paintings and books are my passions. I fell in love with Van Eyck when I studies Fine Arts in
College and have gradually explored and grown in so many ways since that begoinning. Eve tho0ugh I still love Van Eyck.
I would have loved to have gone with you. I tell you what. We have to set a date to meet in Paris and then we can go to all th art Exhibitions and Museums. Have you ever been to the Louvre? I have seen Dali and Picasso there. One Of my favourite artists is Chagall and I have a good print of one of his works. My sister (the alcofrolic) through it in my direction as she said that she had gone beyond representational art. I think that she was trying to impress me but I have an excellent print framed and in my house so that I can look it and instanty feel better know matter what the trouble I may be facing. Blessings
So next year in Paris, right?
but I have an excellent print framed and in my house so that I can look it and instanty feel better know matter what the trouble I may be facing. Blessings
So next year in Paris, right?1 person likes this
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
Have I been to the Louvre? See for yourself...
My parents had these two huge books, one was Rembrandt and the other was Michelangelo. I used to look at them over and over, especially the Rembrandt. In college, I took a liking to this one artist, Franz Marc. He's come up in my discussions a few times. Paris sounds lovely. :-)
And don't get me started on books...
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
27 Sep 09
I would have loved to go with you. I don't get to go to the art mueseum very much. There is one in town that has some pretty interesting things sometimes but it's not like a "real" mueseum. I think I will have to run away myself this week and go to one I know of in Knoxville.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
This one wasn't a world class museum, for that I'd have to go to San Francisco or Los Angeles, but it wasn't too shabby either!
@gracefuldove (1668)
• Malaysia
27 Sep 09
Well, I have not been to the US and I feel like running away from home to go to Sacramento. What a wish. No, I hardly go to an art museum. I do like the old paintings of yesteryears. I do not know how to really appreciate current modern art and paintings. The artists are too much into "themselves", I guess.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
Sacramento is not a bad place. It's right between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe and not too far from a lot of other beautiful places.
Some modern art really just leaves me cold, but some of it I like a lot. It's kind of hit and miss though.
