Paw-lmer Museum of Art

All it takes is a little bit of inspiration to spark creativity.  Over the past several weeks, we have looked at different buildings across campus and their meanings, starting with the inspirational Old Main, and now, on post 10, coming to the icon of creativity, the Palmer Museum of Art.

The Palmer Museum of Art is a brick building with lots of arches on the outside of it.  Over the entrance, there is a large stained glass window.  There is also a garden of art to the side of the building.  The most noticeable part of the museum, is the two large paws that stand beside the steps to entrance.

These paws are, of course, lion paws, to symbolize the Nittany Lion, but that is not the only things they are.  These paws also symbolize hands.  The importance of hands is that they are often associated with creating things, and creativity.  These paws, as those of our college's mascot, are the paws that push people all around campus to be creative.  Old Main may have been the inspiration of campus, but these paws funnel this inspiration into creations.

Some creations on display at the Palmer Museum of Art can be found outside the building, in the garden beside it.  This garden of art shows how nature and creativity are joined hand in hand.  Almost all creative ideas draw an inspiration from nature, or something else that was also inspired by nature.  This garden brings everything full circle, by bringing the beauty of nature, and the interest of art into a calm sitting area. The art in this garden is not the only examples outside of the museum, but also the architecture is art.

 

The architecture of the building is very interesting.  When you look at the building, it kind of looks like a pyramid, due to its triangular shape, mixed with the sphinx, due to the giant paws.  The many arches also give the building an incredibly grand look.  All of these factors combine together to make the Palmer Museum of Art an imposing sight.  All of the different architectural details of the Palmer Museum of Art make it a very creative building.  One small detail in particular shows the essence of creativity.

This detail, is the colorful tiles on the columns around the building.  These tiles are each a different color, and show how diverse creativity can be.  All of the combinations of colors on the columns are random, but they come together to make nice mosaics.  This shows how randomness can create creativity in the world.  These small details in the architecture of the building, show just how creative this building is.

From the beginnings of inspiration of Old Main to the Palmer Museum of Art's creativity sparked by this inspiration, we have looked at many different buildings on campus.  This post is my tenth post, and with I would like to thank everyone for their creativity in reading my blogs.  The creativity in this blog is thanks to the creativity in the Palmer Museum of Art, home to the hands of creativity here at Penn State.