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The museum had lots of visitors today.\u00a0 Many, the ones I toured among them, were there on a school outing.\u00a0 Others, a surprisingly large number, came for the foot in the door show.\u00a0 Foot in the door is an installation done by the museum every 10 years.\u00a0 Any one in the state can enter an object so long as it fits in a one foot by one foot by one foot cube.\u00a0 If you work meets that test, you’re in the show.<\/p>\n
That makes for a scene like one I witnessed at the ticket counter.\u00a0 An older man and his wife came up to the counter.\u00a0 He said, “I’ve never been here before, but my son has a piece in the museum.\u00a0 I want to go see it.”\u00a0 He said that with a feeling of pride.\u00a0 A lot of the people going through this show looked to me like first time museum goers.\u00a0 I overheard a woman say in the gallery, “A person that knew about art could tell.\u00a0 Some of these people have real talent.”\u00a0 She was right.<\/p>\n
Foot-in-the-door fully occupies two large galleries, a smaller one and still spills out over into the halls.\u00a0 There is so much to see that three or four visits would only give you a first pass.\u00a0 A treat.<\/p>\n
The kids I toured today from St. Francis were a Spanish class and wanted to see Spanish art.\u00a0 On both tours, though, I took them to foot-in-the-door, too.\u00a0 These are living, working Minnesota artists, many young folks.\u00a0 I told them if they wanted, at the next show, they could have a piece in the show.\u00a0 They loved the crazy variety.\u00a0 The boys were taken by the fact that there was .45 revolver entered.\u00a0 They took pictures of it with their cell-phones.\u00a0 Another kid liked the alarm clock.\u00a0 Still another liked, as I did, a cubic foot of broken eggs glued back together.<\/p>\n
These kids really took to cubism and surrealism, grasping quickly the rather tricky shift in artistic purpose that these two art movements put into the world.\u00a0 It surprised me some, but they really enjoyed the quirky nature of synthetic cubism and the irrational nature of surrealism.\u00a0 Both fit the teenage moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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