Art & Architecture Trip - Day 16

We are almost half-way through the Koln experience and art instruction. The morning was rather lazy since we drove to see an art exhibit in Dusseldorf. We traveled along the Rhein on the Auto-bahn until (around 1130) we arrived at a modern art (newly built) gallery. Inside, there were paintings by the impressionists, expressionists and other famous abstract and surrealist painters. Picasso had many paintings and drawings in the museum. After touring the museum until nearly 1330, we walked to a nearby park where we ate our lunch and relaxed. When we finished, we went back inside the museum. There was a special visiting art exhibit on many of Picasso's sketches and artwork. We learned about the development and design of his work and walked around until 1630. At 1700 we were given free time and we walked around Duselldorf for awhile. We left at 1800. After supper (back at JGH), we went down to the Rhein. The girls wrote post cards to their their mothers and pestered me. When we went back inside, Jeane attempted to paint a portrait of me in water colors - but she did not succeed. At about midnight, some Yugoslavians came by our room and we discussed our experiences. We all talked (up on a balcony at the top of the JGH!) until around 0300. I need some sleep!