Yesterday I went, on a school-sponsord trip, to two museums in San Antonio.\u00a0 The first was The McNay and then to the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA).\u00a0 Both museums were rather interesting.<\/p>\n
The colleciton at the McNay is pretty impressive (much more extensive than Houston’s The Menil Colleciton<\/em>), but not much really really seemed to strike me.\u00a0 I loved the Medieval Collection at the McNay.\u00a0 That period seems rather underrepresented in a lot of collections, and this was the first time I had seen more than a piece or two from that period of European history.\u00a0 A couple of contemporary pieces did catch my eye.\u00a0 One was entitled “The Cocktail Party.”\u00a0The piece itself is the size of a small room with several human figures (made of paper-mache, perhaps).\u00a0 The interesting thing about this exhibit was the fact that it all the exterior surfaces in the piece were covered in Cheez Doodles.\u00a0 Personally I had never seen so many Cheez Doodles in my life.\u00a0 A couple of the figures contained mechanics and performed repetitive motions, which definitely added some depth to the piece.\u00a0 The other piece of art that caught my eye was the exercise equipment\/torture device sculpture.\u00a0 This wooden sculpture was in the form of an all-in-one home gym setup at home, but it was stylized after some of the more popular medieval torture devices found in dungeons.\u00a0 Since both pieces are part of a visiting exhibit, I was not allowed to take a picture of them, but you can see “The Cocktail Party” at the McNay website (link below).<\/p>\n I was rather impressed with the size and scope of the collection at the SAMA.\u00a0 The Western antiquities collection is what impressed me the most.\u00a0 In terms of pieces, the collection is rather extensive.\u00a0 It even includes a heroic sculpture portrait of Marcus Aurelius and a heroic sculpture portrait of Trajan.\u00a0 I’m not sure if these were official portraits (the head on the Trajan sculpture is believed to have been added to its body in the 18th Century), but they are impressive nonetheless.\u00a0 The antiquities collection is quite impressive, but in contrast to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Houston museum contains fewer pieces, but in my opinion, the pieces in Houston are more significant.\u00a0 Houston also contains a great deal of non-Western antiquities.\u00a0 SAMA also includes a Colonial period Latin American exhibit, with its cornerstone piece a very large golden altar with a painting of the Virgin Mary in the center.\u00a0 This particular pieces easily tops 20 feet in height and is absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n As the day came to an end I was glad to be going home, but now I’m itching to go to either Dallas or Austin to see what’s on display in either of those cities.\u00a0 Until then, however, I’ll just have to rely on what I can find online.<\/p>\n Work on my project for Digital Art is progressing.\u00a0 I’m finding this to be a challenge as I am forced to work on indivual pixels at times in order to make things integrate smoothly.\u00a0 I hope to have it done by Tuesday at the very latest and will post it once I turn it in for grading.\u00a0 As for me now, I have to get some sleep.\u00a0 Have a good night, everyone, and if you get a chance, check out the links I provided below.<\/p>\n The McNay Museum<\/a> Yesterday I went, on a school-sponsord trip, to two museums in San Antonio.\u00a0 The first was The McNay and then to the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA).\u00a0 Both museums were rather interesting. The colleciton at the McNay is pretty impressive (much more extensive than Houston’s The Menil Colleciton), but not much really really seemed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe San Antonio Museum of Art<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"