Art in Practice
I believe I mentioned this before, but I started learning about art history after my visit to the Louvre on my honeymoon. We were able to skip the lines because we showed up an hour before closing and made a whirlwind tour of the major exhibits, culminating in a blurry photo of the Mona Lisa over several other visitors' heads. So, I was able to say that I'd been to the Louvre and seen some of the most iconic pieces in art, but I couldn't tell you why they were iconic. That's when I decided to buy a copy of The Annotated Mona Lisa . Flash forward to last week, when I re-upped my membership to the Art Institute of Chicago. I knew, going in, that I wanted to create a plan, but, luckily, the Institute already had me beat. They've got short tour suggestions and the ability to create your own (no more than 6 works). We decided to follow the Route 66 mini-tour with a few detours (sorry, not sorry), and I'm happy to say that I was able to understand a ...
