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| Climbing into a beehive |
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| Checking out the bubbles in the Mathematics exhibit |
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| Pretending to be a rabbit |
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| Electricity in a plasma tube |
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| "Cliff" 65 million year old Triceratops skeleton |
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| Measuring his hand in a T-Rex foot print |
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| Dad and Alex with a Triceratops model skeleton |
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| Measuring the length of a dino |
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| T-Rex |
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| Close up view of frogs |
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| Gecko exhibit |
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| Giant grasshopper |
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| Brushing some giant teeth |
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| Giant Lite Brite |
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| Lots of Alex's in the Optical Illusion exhibit |
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| Robot Alex in the gift shop |
As an artist myself, I enjoy reading Philip Koch's sensitive writing about Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, who along with Whistler and Rothko, are my favorite American painters.
ReplyDeleteI don't live in the United States but have traveled and passed a short time there. But even with the little time spent in your beautiful country, especially in small-town America, I can relate to some of the poetical feel that Hopper and Wyeth had captured in their art, which is for me part of the attraction of their paintings.
Browsing at wahooart.com the other day, as I do now and then, I find a good selection of Edward Hopper's work, http://EN.WahooArt.com/@/EdwardHopper ,in the big archive of Western Art, that customers can order online for canvas prints and even hand-painted, oil-painting reproductions can be made and sent to them.
Hopper's surrealistic and depersonalized world is there again. Timeless, yes, as it is still there now in the roadside cafes and diners that I ate at all over America.