milwaukee art museum
i cannot believe it has only been about 10 days since i went to the milwaukee art museum . i was in milwaukee with about thirty of my closest friends for a fun weekend! i remember the first time i visited the museum, they had a degas sculpture exhibit; i took these lovely picture yes, the famous degas sculptur this time, i was very excited to see the posters of paris: toulouse-lautrec and his contemporaries . i loved the exhibit (mam does do special exhibits very well)! for the last ten years or so, i have noticed the parisian posters almost everywhere except in museums. the first time i was aware of them was within my college dorm on friends' walls. this exhibit clearly explained the appeal of them and how the parisians used them both as advertising and then later as art (reminding me of the andy warhol campbell soup can series). the exhibit walked through the chronological rise and fall of the poster craze in paris. i...