Polk Museum of Art

Upon entering the museum, I went into the Japanese Art Room. There were beautiful fabrics of clothing in red-gold tone, and other colors. There were paintings in this room. All of the paintings detail an era: tempo, bunsei, bunka, kyowa, kansei, kika and kaei era. Most of the paintings were of a female, and the faces basically looked the same.

Upon entering the next room, Functional Ceramics was the highlights. There was a bean pot, its color was a dark brown. There was a large Jaguar ceramic from Costa Rica. In the batch was a Martaban jar, it was very beautiful. The ceramics were from Japan and Korea.

The next room I went into was of young artist paintings. Here are some of the names of the paintings: once upon a time fairytale, and Glenn. There was one painting in this room that struck me. The name of the painting is, "Woods near Juniper Springs.P Here are the details of the painting: pretty green trees, tan brown water flowing into the sunlight, large branches over the water, heading out to an open sky area.

I got on the elevator and went up to the second floor to view more art. There was a picture there which struck me. The name of this picture was "Survivor." The drawing was drawn on graphite paper. The drawing was of an old woman wearing a light straw hat. It was amazing how the artist used techniques to make her look really old.

Along the walls of the second floor there were pictures of families from different countries. There were brief descriptions of the valuables and the amount of income earned. I saw poverty, wealth, sadness, and joy in the portraits.

Last of all, I went outside to the "sculpture gardens." Among the artifacts were: chain hound VII, iron dinosaur, emergence, dark black thing, three of the others, and still life with pears.

I had a great time at the museum. I actually was there for 1 hour and 30 minutes. I really was relaxed and enjoying myself.

Thank you teacher for this experience!