Let's Tour the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Join us this Saturday, January 11th, at 2pm for a private tour at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Andrew Sandberg will be our tour guide. He is an accomplished artist who lives and works locally. (You can see his work on display at: "Art Materials" located at 2728 Lyndale Ave S. in Uptown.)

Don't miss this chance to walk with him and talk with him as we view some of the most beautiful pieces to be found at the MIA. Andrew's "objective lens" will help shed new light and offer new perspective as we take a deeper and more meaningful look at art.

(This tour is free, but in the spirit of Ayn Rand's "Trader Principle", feel free to show Andrew your appreciation.)

Please RSVP to Melanie @ 612.719.6498/ or message below.
Attendee limit: 20

We will meet at precisely 2pm, immediately inside of the MIA's main entrance. The tour will begin at 2:05pm. If you are running late and want to catch up with us on the tour, text Melanie at 612.719.6498.

Here is a bit about Andrew and what we will be seeing this Saturday...
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My name is Andrew Sandberg. I am a visual artist and have been one all my life. My impetus as an artist is based on my love of the faculty of vision, and on a desire to create an image of what I want life to be like.

I am an Objectivist and a passionate admirer of Ayn Rand. I began reading her books at age 15 and she has been the compass of my intellectual life since then.

I am a Romanticist. Ayn Rand named the primary element of Romanticism as the projection of the individual artist’s personal values. My deepest personal values are a love of life on Earth, the things we create to make life possible and the two fields without which there would be no life, no spirit, no fuel for our existence: Art and Philosophy.

I have a bachelors degree in Art History, with a minor in Western Philosophy. I chose these subjects with Ayn Rand in mind. When asked what she studied in school her answer was that she studied History in order to know what types of actions men had taken and Philosophy in order to know why. I studied Art History because I wanted to know what kinds of art men had made over the millennia and I studied Philosophy because I wanted to know why they had done it.

Art is the visual embodiment of Philosophy. In this tour we will see how this is so.

Learn more about me:
You can view my art at www.SandbergStudio.com., or, even better, on Instagram @sandbergart.

I have a blog, www.andrewsandbergart.com, where I write on issues of technical craft and aesthetics (philosophy of art).

I am also a Quora writer, where I answer questions about Art History, Ayn Rand and Aristotle. You can find this by web searching “Quora Andrew Sandberg.”

Our Tour:
The art works we will be studying all deal with the same subject: the Human Body.

I have chosen the pieces we will be looking at with the intention of demonstrating the essence of the three schools of art that Ayn Rand held to be the most fundamental.

In the school of Classicism we will study a marble copy, made in Hellenistic Rome, of a sculpture made centuries before at the height of Greek Culture. The sculpture is called the Doryphoros (the Spear Bearer) and was originally designed by Polykleitos.

From the Romantic school we will be looking at Frederick MacMonnies’ bronze sculpture of Diana, and by comparing it to a few works in the 18th century gallery, we will see the difference between a Classicist and a Romanticist when dealing with a classical subject

From the Naturalist (or “Realist”) school we will be looking Gustave Caillebotte’s grand scale depiction of Nude on a Couch. You are probably familiar with Caillebotte’s famous Rainy Day which is in the collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. In this painting we will observe what it means to depict “life as it really is” when dealing with the human figure.