Field trip with the Faigin Atelier to see Intimate Impressionism at Seattle Art Museum. The show is good, but doesn’t really have that much Impressionism, despite the title.

It is always great to hear Gary lecture about art. As is often the case, we picked up a number of followers as we moved through the exhibit.

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit, ca. 1900

At the press preview, Jen Graves from the Stranger advanced a theory that Mound of Butter is really about sex and that the knife is a phallus and the eggs are testicles. Gary didn’t really agree.

Antoine Vollon, Mound of Butter, 1875-85

Édouard Manet, Oysters, 1862

Édouard Manet, Oysters, 1862