Went to the National Museum of Western Art

I went to the National Museum of Western Art with my niece who is an art university student the day before yesterday. Now they have an exhibition of Rembrandt “the quest for chiaroscuro” and we toured around there, but the main point was to examine the space around the museum. That’s because my university assignment I’m tackling now is to plan an annex to the museum in which I exhibit three sculptures of a modern sculptor.

Unfortunately, it rained a lot yesterday, so I couldn’t look over enough what I should do, but I discussed my assignment with my niece who studies sculpture, as we had cake sets in the museum cafe. Thanks to her, I decided to choose the sculptor, Ron Mueck, whose sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but their scale is disconcerting. One of his works “Standing Woman” is over four meters tall. When I saw it first in the picture, I was quite taken a back by the size, but I liked it very much. 

Now I’m working on planning the museum of Ron Mueck, and it has been decided that my niece will make miniature clays of Ron’s sculptures. It will look very nice if the miniatures are in my model, won't it? 

Oh, and yes, my niece came by my house and drew a picture of my dog for me. Just like the student of the art university, she captured his likeness quite easily.

by Aya