We woke up very tired after a long day yesterday.
After breakfast we went to the art institute of Chicago. The museum was a very beautiful building, and reminded us about the Tate Modern museum in London. There was very different artwork on the museum both older art and new art.
We went on a guided tour, where the theme was american art. We saw American artpieces from a very long time ago and later on the guided tour we saw more modern american art from Andy Warhol and earlier students on the art institute.
Our guide told us that the institute was previous mostly an American Art institute, but their director of the institute wanted the art institute to be more international because the newest trends on art museums are to collect as much international artpieces as possible.
We got a very chronological guided tour on the museum by our guide. The first artpieces we saw were paintings and sculptures of native americans.
And afterwards we saw the development in paintings when the europeans came to America and the industrialization begun.
We got to see art from the times when the metropolis start growing. There were paintings of the nightlife and artists presented how they felt lonely in the big cities.
At last we saw many artpieces from artist who had an international origin but had immigrated to America.
Some stayed at the art institute after the guided tour to see the rest of the art collection on the museum while others went out to find a restaurant to eat.
Emilie walked through the millenium park after she had stayed to see the rest of the museum. It was quite different to walk through the park, it was very green and you could hear laughter everywhere when you walked through the park. It was interesting to see this contrast in the big city. It was quite different to walk on the streets sorrounded by big buildings and suddenly be located in a green park in Chicago downtown.
After we all had a little break from the art museum we went on an achitectural boat tour on the canals in Chicago.
One of the men from the crew talked about the architecture in Chicago. We saw all the big scyscrabers from the water perspective and he told us about the buildings and why Chicago look like it does today.
He mentioned that the residential population in downtown Chicago has doubled in the pas ten years which means that more of the scyscrabers are becoming residential buildings.
The canals we sailed has worked as a shipping river for many years and today it is still working as a shipping river, but are not used as much as before.
The guide of the tour told us that many buildings look like each other, and that has an explanation because in the 1960/70 many architects liked a minimalistic style, the buildings they made were black and had the same form. The building were cheap to make og it's only pupose was to be a business building.
But there are also many buildings that stands out, more buildings are part of the company's identity in the architecture of the building. Other buildings do also have remarks on how tall the buildings next to the building.
He told us that Chicago did previosly have the tallest scyscraber in the world, but they now have the second tallest scyscraber.
