One nice thing about art groups is that they introduce you to some things you'd never expect to know about. The German Expressionist movement was considered the beginning of modern art. In this exhibit all but one of the pieces shown were "reproductions of originals". I thought that was interesting that the show would feature "studies". For instance the abstract above is a reproduction of a Kandinsky. It was done by Dr. Robert Young in 1910. I believe there is a horse and rider somewhere in the this painting if you can find it!!! 
The painting being shown and discussed by the docent is a Karl Hoffer painting done in 1934 and is THE original painting. So this period of painters were pre WWII painters in Germany...avant-garde in a new way and trying out a new style of painting.
The trip was an all-day event--we left Leesburg at 8 a.m and returned at 5 p.m. Whew. We also went to the Daytona Museum of Arts and Science in the afternoon.
One of the interesting side exhibits at the latter museum were donations from the Root family who made their fortune as Coca Cola bottlers. So they had all the old bottles, coolers, and machines on display. The family also sponsored race cars (much to my husband's delight) and they collected trains...REAL trains. So there were two cars to see outside the museum! The family traveled in style!!!
I am off to an abstract workshop tomorrow so I expect my exposure today was a good thing!
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