de Young museum is a major culture institution in San Francisco, and is located in Golden Gate Park. It was our destination on Thursday, December 1st, 2022, a rainy day.
One feature of the museum is actually not about art but the views of San Francisco from the museum's observation tower in all directions. The receptionist recommended us to go up to the observation tower to take a look of San Francisco from there. The observation deck is a also the souvenir shop for the museum. Despite the mist in the air we had decent views of downtown San Francisco.
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| Lift every voice |
We went to the general exhibit area only. Since we don't go to art museum frequently, we actually browsed all rooms on two floors. I was more attracted to sculptures than paintings. The root has a good story behind it. If one looks at sculpture carefully, one will see that in addition to the roots put on top of the two rocking chairs, one chair misses a rocker at the bottom and leans on the other chair. This is supposed to show that people are interdependent.
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| Abstract Sculpture |
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| Impression Sculpture |
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| Roots |
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| Venus |
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| Maya Artifact |
A few paintings caught my attention and I read the captions on the side. The water fall was claimed to be painted by one brush. The Rhapsody, a landscape painting by Richard Mayhew. I saw the 3rd painting several times before, its realistic rendering of details of a female body drew my attention. This time I read the sign by the painting, it has an interesting biblical story behind it. The painting is a modern drawing of story of the Susanna and the elders. It is an Old Testament story of a woman falsely accused of adultery after two men who, after discovering one another in the act of spying on her while she bathes, conspire to blackmail her for sex. The two were caught in their lies and stoned to death themselves. Other paintings for the story may be found on Wikipedia.
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| Water Falls |
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| Rhapsody |
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| Susanna and two Elders |
Note
Like reading, art is another way we expand our horizon physically and spiritually. Our other blogs on art/culture include
Gormley's Sculptures at Singapore National Galley
A visit from novelist jacqueline west
China Trip - concert at the Egg
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