Sterling and I finally visited the Oakland Museum of California, which is shame, because we only live a few blocks away. The building itself is gorgeous, mid-century style concrete blocks amidst several huge gardens and lots of half indoor / half outdoor spaces. The content is a mix of the art, history and natural science of California, and these elements sometimes butt up against each other in confusing or unproductive ways, but overall the OMCA is more than worth taking the time to fully explore. Not least of which because of their current exhibition, Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes. Im fact, I'm heading back there as soon as I finish this post...
...which is now.
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As an art student researching the work of the Impressionists, I have big help from this site called wahooart.com. It's like a good art library, where, convenient for me, works of artists are divided into art movements in history. Some of the works I had never seen before.
As the canvas prints are affordable, I ordered online a little size canvas print of my favorite,
http://en.wahooart.com/A55A04/w.nsf/OPRA/BRUE-8EWE3X, by Claude Monet.
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