Friday Smiles 290: a trip to the art museum, part 2

Annie our host at Friday Smiles has agreed to link me each week until I can get Mr. Linky working for me again.  Thank you Annie.  I appreciate you for taking time to do this.

Here are my funnies this week:

Did you hear about the TV weatherman who, despite his training and sparkling credentials, ran into a terrible unlucky streak?

He became something of a local joke. The town’s newspaper began keeping a record of his predictions. A year later, the paper reported that he’d been wrong almost three hundred times in a single year.

Unable to handle the pressure, the station manager fired him.

So the meteorologist moved far away and applied for another job as a TV weathermen. When he got to the question on the application about why he had left his last job, he wrote, “The climate didn’t agree with me.”

Fred was applying for a job as a flagman/switch operator on the railroad. The chief engineer was conducting the interview.

“What would you do if the Northern Express was heading north on Track 1 and the Southern Central was heading south on Track 1?”

Fred quickly answered, “Well, I’d call my brother.”

The chief engineer just sat there for a second. “Why would you call your brother?”

“He’s never seen a train wreck before.”

A new Army recruit was on the rifle range. He fired 50 shots and completely missed the target with every shot!

His Drill Instructor called him to attention and got in his face. “What’s the matter with you?” shouted the DI. “Why can’t you hit the target? What were you in civilian life?”

“I was a telephone repair man,” replied the recruit, “and I don’t know why I can’t hit the target. Let me see…”

The man checked his rifle, checked his rifle again, and then checked his rifle a third time. He then put his finger in front of the muzzle, pulled the trigger and blew the end of his finger off!

“Well,” the phone man said, writhing in pain, “the bullets are leaving this end here fine. The trouble must be on the other end!”

Now back to the museum where I spent nearly six hours with two teens and a tween one day this July   This is an eclectic mix, and I hope you will find a few or at least one painting you like.  I learned a lot of what I like and even surprised myself on some of my choices.

I took this second shot because I was enamored with the frame on the left.

If you have ever been to my blog, you KNOW why I love this assemblage.

The rust, the recycling aspect, and of course, the kinetics all spoke to me.

The description is here.  I think it's the only placard I photographed.

Still love it!

This may be WAM's most famous and most loved painting.   It is a Mary Cassatt, one of only three famous female impressionists in the world.  She often painted the bonds between mother and child, so this was a good pick for the museum when they purchased it.  Although she was an American, she moved to France several times, where she created her most famous works.

This might have made a T Tuesday painting if only I had kept better notes on the artist.

For some reason, this painting and the next one remind me of Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.  And no wonder.  They are both by Edward Hopper.

I adore both these paintings by Hopper, even though someone walked into my photo as I was taking it.

I don't like this one at all!  That's why art is SO subjective.

I fell in love with this one and the next one, too.

They reminded me of my drafting computer program I used as an undergrad.

I took a closer look at this one.  I had not seen the man fishing when I first looked at it.

The oldest teen took very good notes, but it's been so long since we went to the museum and they are now back in CA with their notes and their aunt, so there's no way I remembered everything we discussed or who specific artists are.  And this is just the first room, too! 

Thanks for joining the children and me today and thanks for your continued visits and support.  Now let's visit Annie's Friday Smiles, where it never hurts to begin the weekend with a big smile, just like Annie's. Feel free to join in with a post of your own, too.  I am sure know for a fact she will welcome you, too.