Ti Ti, my granddaughter, is talented. She is at Gusto University in Yangon, Myanmar, where she is majoring in computer science. She is driven. However, Ti Ti is also into painting. This is a picture of my artistic granddaughter.

These two photos are of Ti Ti and her friend at an art gallery.

A litany of memories flashed through my mind as I looked at the paintings. The Inle Lake photo reminds me of my trips to visit my family, who live near the lake. On my last trip, we went on a family tour together, which included Bagan, which contains 2,500 stupas, shrines, and pagodas. My family and I took a hot-air balloon ride over the sixteen square miles of those Buddhist shrines. In the art gallery, there are several paintings of Bagan.

I promised Ti Ti that I would take her to the Art Institute in Chicago. While she waits to get her student visa, she can watch this clip from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at the Art Institute. Bueller cut class one day in high school and went to the Art Institute with his friends.

The Art Institute has a fascinating blend of painting and stained glass by Marc Chagall.

Chagall’s America Windows

Sixty years ago, while attending Muskingum College, there was a required 10-hour art history class called The Arts. Students took it in either their junior or senior years. It was divided into 5 hours per semester, in which you attended 3 lectures and 2 subsections weekly. I took The Arts in my junior year and loved it. The professor, Louie Palmer, asked me to teach several subsections weekly during my senior year. As his student assistant, I also wrote and graded the midterms and finals in both semesters. Talk about a golden opportunity, and it had a profound positive effect on me.

In the last twenty-five years, art history was my favorite humanities class that I taught. Ti Ti and I will visit the Art Institute on our first trip to Chicago. I promise.

This is a portion of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at the Art Institute.

This video is about Chagall’s America Windows at the Art Institute.

Modest Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition. He paints musically a dozen paintings done by Viktor Hartmann. One of the paintings is The Gate at Kiev.