Getting there was rather humorous, haha. I'm unfamiliar with Boston and was using my gps to find the museum. The gps indicated that there was more than one MFA in Boston. So I chose the first location that popped up thinking it was "the one". Once we hit the tunnels we lost satellite reception, because well...we were encased in concrete... A couple wrong exits and turns later, the gps brought us to an alley in Faneuil Hall, and told us that we had "arrived at our destination"... The museum looked a little different than I had remembered ;)
I called tech support (my dad) and he looked up the correct address and we plugged that in. When we arrived we parked, and walked up to the back entrance with the giant baby-head sculptures. We were walking on the grass...until we realized it was covered in some sort of animal feces. God only knows... Upon jumping off the grass, we saw a sign that said please use the walkways. Go figure.
My girlfriend was particularly looking forward to seeing Paul Gauguin's painting, "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?", which I had never seen. We walked around the museum all day and ended up in front of Gauguin's piece. It had evidently been moved from the room where all the impressionistic stuff is, into a darker room that wasn't lit well. The glare on the painting made it hard to see all at once.
The painting is HUGE. Here is an image...
(Note that this is only a partial of the image...you have to click on it to see the rest.)
The subject of the piece is the cycle of life, and is meant to be read from right to left. It begins with a child and ends at a dying old woman. The blue figure represents a higher power.
My favorite pieces from the museum were mostly prints by Albrecht Durer. I had seen his works in slides before, but never up close. I was truly amazed at the level of etching detail. Having taken printmaking intaglio, I had a healthy appreciation for the work.
It was a wonderful trip :D
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