Liz Calderon Chen visits the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha and admires its beauty.
During Fall Break, I took a small trip to the Joslyn Art Museum residing in Downtown Omaha. Locals said that it has been remodeled within the last year, just reopening last month with a budget of over a $100 million in expansion and renovation, including new features and art pieces added to the collection. Consisting of three buildings with all types of artistries, as Modern, European, Contemporary, Asian, decorated the walls of the place.
Walking up glass stairs towards the Modern Art building, it displayed paintings and sculptures depicting the personal thoughts of the artists and their perspective on several opinions on how they saw things. There were immigration paintings and how they celebrated their culture, as how taking pictures captured specific moments of time in someone’s life, and the significance of abstract drawing into the shape of common daily life elements. The most distinguished piece in this building involved a video of sentimental street dance to opera style music. Within the duration of approximately six minutes, your senses overloaded with the sensation of moving into a basement in France along with everyone.
Crossing a bridge into the next building, was as if you’ve traveled into a different era. The kind of history that revolved around each building was magical, and made you feel as if you never wanted to leave. In this section, European Art hangs through all around you representing their stages of historical events. Portrayals of oil paintings, portraits and my absolute favorite, landscapes, roamed in each passage as you kept striding down the architecture. On the upper level, the Asian art was exhibited through the halls and consisted mostly of sculptures representing their point in history. In the middle of the building, there was a fountain contemplated right down the middle of the room depicting an Indian salon with a touch of nature in each corner.
Entering the third building, the whole vibe switched inside of me, which made me remember the warning announced before entering, that explained how this collection was susceptible to certain audiences. Do not get me wrong, there were several pieces of art shown splendidly among others, however, compared to the last two buildings I came from, it was a drastic change as to my point of view. At the end of this journey, I felt utterly fulfilled by the share of beautifulness this museum presented with no entry fee at all. So, looking back at this voyage, my utter most recommendation is to drive down Omaha city and just take your time to enjoy the pleasures this site has to offer.
