Chihuly: Then & Now Exhibit

    I am a little behind on this considering how busy I had been, so here is something that I did about this time last month.

      Another exhibit I went to at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on Tuesday July 18th is the Chihuly: Then & Now exhibit on the first floor. I had known that this exhibit was running and it was important for me to see it before I left for home that day. The Auguste Rodin and The Age of Impressionism exhibit is so big, I felt like, it definitely took some time just to maneuver through it. There are things in this exhibit that I have seen before at this very museum back in 2021 and the third photo is an example of that. I have definitely seen that boat of objects over two years ago and I am still just as impress as the last time I saw it. This exhibit is pretty big as well, which is very nice. I do not remember if it was in here or in another exhibit that I heard a storm of small children come in and it made me very nervous just because they are surrounded by a bunch of important art. They were absolutely in this Chihuly exhibit for sure that day. I am so cautious around small sculptures because I do not want to damage anything. 

     I was surprised to learn that a lot of his sculptures are inspired by Native American art like that of Native American blankets and baskets, and it seems more obvious now that it I know that because of the detailed patterning in his work. I would be very interested to watch how Chihuly does that specifically, because when you actually look at the glass work individually, there is so much detail added to it. It is not painted, like how you would think it would be, because it is not used with paint. It is all glass work. I would absolutely like to know how he makes the sculptures in the first two photos that I have added to this post. These, I think I can say, are some of my favorites in this exhibit, just because they are squiggly and pretty. That is it, that is all. Squiggly and pretty. I was also very impressed with the glass vases in the collection, too, because the top of it are ornamented with cute glassworks of mostly small animals.

     I would definitely reccomend checking this exhibit out if you are in the area and if you are an art lover like I am.