Milwaukee is home to an incredible art museum with a world-class collection and groundbreaking architecture by Santiago Calatrava. Yesterday, I had the privilege of driving downtown and visiting the museum. Part of my reason for doing this was to get some “lighting” pictures for my class, part of it was to play with my new camera, and part of it was to just relax and enjoy the art.

I had a fun time taking pictures. I really wished I had brought a wide-angle lens, since my 50mm prime really limited my field of view. In the end, I think this was good. It forced me to be more creative and to find better targets.

I ended up browsing through several galleries. This was so refreshing! It was interesting to see what art I liked and what I really didn’t like. I found that I really resonated with some of the more modern art, such as Roy Lichenstein’s Imperfect Dipytich, and Nam June Paik’s Ruin. Overall, the highlight was the American Collection gallery featuring beautiful masterpieces from nineteenth-century American landscape painters. These paintings, for me, epitomize painting for the glory of God.

Later in the day I was grocery shopping and came up with some great photos of my brother Micah. It is easy to see why I love this lens so much!

You can see the rest of my pictures (or the highlights at least) from yesterday on my Picasa album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sskordik/MAM