Thursday, April 25, 2024

Mint Art Museum

 In an effort to utilize our downtown options, Bob, Elizabeth, and I went to the Mint Museum of Art for an afternoon of exploration. It always takes such a great deal of consciousness on my part to plan activities like this. When the kids were little, it was much easier to remember to go explore new places, but as they have all gotten older and gone their separate ways, I find myself exploring new hiking trails rather than excursions to the zoo or museums. 

I am in no way an art connoisseur. I do not really understand a lot of art (especially modern and abstract), but I do try and appreciate it the best I can. I also wanted to expose Elizabeth to different pieces of art since she is such a talented artist.  


Sign saying "Mint Museum Uptown"

A wall in the museum that separates the inside from the outside of the building that is at least two stories tall (maybe 3) and is one big stained glass picture. The picture is some abstract drawing of city buildings, faces, black bodies, snowflake type designs.

A clay gourd with decorations and words in what appears to be something from Africa. The gourd is painted a variety of colors, but is primarily blue, black and red. i

Blown glass in the shape of a cone. The piece of art almost looks like a pencil tip. The end is pointy and black and the cone part is a swirl of yellow, white, and black lines.

This looks like a piece of Native American art. It is a wood carved beak of a bird with its mouth slightly open holding a red ball.

Three abstract paintings stacked one on top of the other. The first painting is a rectangle with oranges, yellows, and purple as its primary colors. The second image is oval, but on its side so that it is slightly longer than the image above it. The colors in this second shape are blues, greens, and purples. The third shape is a rectangle, but the lines inside form a laying down oval (almost like a blend of the two shapes above). It is the longest piece of them all and is a combination of green, orange, and yellows.

This artwork was my favorite. The artist took plastic pieces and melted them onto a canvas making a floral arrangement out of them. The painting is definitely abstractish, but its colors are bright blues, pinks, yellows, and greens.
This piece was my favorite. This image is made from various pieces of melted plastic. 

This painting is a million years old (not really, but it was quite old) and is the image of a piece of an iceberg falling away from the main berg and into the ocean all while a man in a boat watches from the distance. The painting is mainly blues and whites, but the man's tiny boat is yellow making it stand out among the huge iceberg.

A scenic view of a river surrounded on both sides by mountains. In the forefront of the picture are trees with their fall leaves displaying reds, yellows, and oranges.

This painting was done by a black artist depicting the life of a black man in a downtown area. He is seen walking with his head held high, nicely dressed, with a smile on his face while three white men dressed sloppily in wife beaters and tattered clothes look on with scowls.

This image was also found in the black section of the art museum. This one shows a black man dressed in a cap, jeans, and a shirt crouched down with a marble in his hand getting ready to throw it for what I presume to be some kind of street game.

This is the final painting from the black artists section of the museum. This one depicts the goings on of a busy city street in a black part of town. There are people hanging out, playing games, just walking, shopping, sitting down. Their clothes and the buildings are very colorful - blues, yellows, reds. There is some trash in the street and on the sidewalk.

This painting is hard to describe. It is an abstract painting that is made to look like simplified butterfly wings viewed from the side of a butterfly. The wings are made up of most of the colors of the rainbow.

This is a picture taken of an old woman with her hand up to her face. She seems in distress. She is very, very wrinkly. The photo was taken in black and white.

This is a piece of stained glass. It is a bunch of triangle pieces put together to make straight lines. On the bottom of the piece is a zombie like girl just standing there looking out of the art.

This is a piece of clay (I think) painted yellow at the top and then multi-pastel colors at the bottom. The piece looks like a vase at the top. It opens up, but at the bottom is a bunch of lightbulb looking pieces seemingly glued to the base of the vase all around it. The lightbulb pieces are sticking out at the sides of the base.

Same type of artwork as the previous picture, but this time instead of lightbulb pieces there are golf ball size balls stuck randomly to the sides of this vase base.

A rainbow painted backdrop with the words: "I have a dream that one day all little boys and girls will not be treated badly because of the color of their skin." laid overtop of the rainbow.
This piece of artwork was done by an elementary student at a local school here in Charlotte. The museum had a display of various pieces of children's artwork. 

This piece too was done by an elementary student. It is various different rectangles displayed in a 3x3 grid with different shapes and drawings using the colors of the rainbow.

A view of the city of Charlotte from the top floor of the art museum.




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