The first sculpture was created by Ruth Asawa, a San Francisco artist who lived from 1926 until 2013.  The work is in the museum in North-Western Arkansas called Crystal Bridges.  The museum was founded by Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton.  It is appropriate that this fine museum of American art in Arkansas has this piece by Asawa.  The artist spent some time in Arkansas during World War II as a Japanese American kept in detention for no other reason than she was Japanese.  The work is typical of Ruth Asawa’s twisted wire sculptures.  In this Blog post the other piece of art is Homage to the Square by Joseph Albers.  Asawa studied art at Black Mountain College School of Art while Albers was head of the painting  program there.  He later left Black Mountain and became the head of the department of design at Yale.  

I think including these two artists’ work in today’s BLOG post is appropriate considering the situation in Washington, D.C.  What we see lacking in the Trump administration’s beginning as head of the U.S.A. is order and sensibility.  Chaos seems to be the main characteristic of President Trump's administration. Very little that is happening makes sense.  Today Trump fired the acting Attorney General because she said she couldn’t agree with the immigration orders of the President. Rather than go into my reasons for agreeing with Sally Yates, the fired attorney, I am hoping this BLOG post simply states my fear that the new administration is chaotic and dangerous to the American way of life and the American way of government.  We will get through this difficult period just as world got through the difficult period of war that we know as World War II.  Joseph Albers, was a German who became an important American artist, He was born in Germany in 1888 and died in America in 1976.  He came to America in 1933 when Hitler restricted expression in Germany, including the work of artists.