Permanent collection: The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin: Austin, Texas

 Where: The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Highlight: American modern art collection

Though the collection covers wide range of classic art works from Greek statue to Impressionist, the section I was the most interested in was the modern art collection.

One which I especially liked was a printing of moon and field by Ellsworth Kelly, who I have heard for the first time, is a 50's~contemporary American artist from NY. He is one of the pioneers of an art form called "Hard Edge Printing" in which (according to my research at Wikipedia) "abrupt transition found between color." ...I see.

I feel like Kelly has something in common with my favorite artist Matisse (especially paper arts)---to convey certain mood with combination of very simple colors and shapes. This painting shows moon, field and sky and that is all-- very simple, yet so joyous!The balance and shapes are just perfect.

The other 2 pictures are few of my favorites, but I could not write down the name of the artist. The black one is made by a Latin American artist. It is made by a felt cloth and coins from different countries. He re-created the constellations in the sky with coins, and the colors and shapes of those coins supposedly very accurately calculated to copy how the stars look in the sky. Pretty cool.
 

One of the best thing about the museum is the entrance hall. White wall with shade of blue tiles, darker to lighter from bottom to higher up. Makes you feel like you are in the water. (The picture of the hall is from the homepage.)