Frist Museum Latest Exhibit ~ The Impressionist Revolution

I have traveled to downtown Nashville to visit Frist Art Museum twice.  Both exhibits have been excellent with a large variety of artifacts.  The latest collection was The Impressionist Revolution Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art.  So many important painters from that era were featured.

The Impressionism movement began in 1874 and continued into the twentieth century. “Breaking with tradition in both how and what they painted as well as how they showed their work, the Impressionists redefined what constituted cutting-edge, contemporary art.  The exhibition invited its attendees to reconsider these now-beloved artists as the scandalous renegades they were as well as the considerable impact they had on twentieth century art.”

Entering the exhibit, we were greeted with this fabulous line art titled Plexus No. 47, 2026.  The artist was Gabriel Dawe.

Alfred Sisley - “Street in Ville-d’Avray” 1873

Gustave Caillebotte - The Path in the Garden, 1886

Be sure to read the last sentence of this plaque 

Claude Monet - Water Lilies, 1908

Claude Monet - Poplars, Pink Effect, 1891

Paul Signac - The Seine River in Paris, 1883

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Enlarged central figure in painting below

Impressionism has been one of my favorite art forms and this impressive exhibit showed me a wide variety of it besides Pointillism, an application of small dots of paint on a canvas.

Getting Out of Dodge

In 2006 my husband and I decided to make a change and move to the Southeast.  It would be either North Carolina or Tennessee.  Checking into property taxes, we settled on finding a place within the Volunteer State.  After looking at the four larger cities Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville, we decided a smaller town would be more to our liking.  We were on I-40 headed back home to Ohio when my husband spotted a billboard which read “Crossville - Golf Capital of Tennessee.”  That was all it took to exit the freeway and do some exploring.

Crossville became home for the next 14 years until my life’s path took me in another direction.  I now live south of Nashville and totally enjoy the South.  Last weekend I traveled back to Crossville to visit one of my last friends remaining in the Golf Capital of Tennessee.  She soon will 8be relocating to California to be close to her children.

Here are a few pictures I took while visiting.  Crossville is truly a pleasant town located on the Cumberland Plateau with much to offer.

  

My beautiful former church ~ Crossville First Methodist Church

The above pictures were homes in The Garden RV Village similar to The Village in Florida.  Notice the garages which house RV’s.

Dirty Girls Nursery, shown in the next 5 photos, was a unique plant nursery and farm.  Their display pieces were so interesting and their plants were healthy and reasonably priced.

The following picture was of my friend’s cat Sunny watching Armetis II splash down in the Pacific.  He was mesmerized.

Cahoots is an eclectic store with a nice variety of goods

French’s Shoes and Boots ~ 11 Tennessee locations and one in Athens, Alabama

Grinder House Coffee Shop

Mitchell’s Drugstore began in 1924

Stonehenge Golf Course in Fairfield Glade