TFAO Museum of American Art

Welcome room - north wall - first view

Genesis

Earlier this year, Traditional Fine Arts Organization decided to sponsor creation of an American art museum especially for digital natives who hang around screens a bunch of the time: Gen Alphas, Gen Z and some Millenials -- people sometimes less motivated to trek to physical museums than other folks. Maybe it seems like a waste time to go all the way to a museum. Or maybe the whole idea seems boring compared to rapid fire images on phones.

Hopefully, this imaginary museum will let everyone take a breather from stresses of everyday life and provide joy, even if for a few fleeting moments.

We've heard that this museum is one of a kind. How many many out there are in a dream? If we simply enjoy the images as we glide through it, it's worth the effort. A pleasant thing this museum has going for it is that it's 100% non-commercial. There aren't annoying pop ups all over the place trying to sell stuff. Nothing is being sold here. We won't have to accept cookies either to enjoy it. There aren't any. What we're doing here is nobody's business.

Touring the museum will make us feel this way:

(above: Jean Mannheim (1861-1945), Happiness, 34 x 39 inches, Private collection, Courtesy of John Moran Auctioneers. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Nice!

About everything we'll see here is soothing to the eye and just plain beautiful. A dash of beauty goes a long way in brightening up our day.

A word about CharGPT

Some ChatGPT texts will help explain things along the way. The museum's curator spent oodles and oodles of time trying to come up with prompts to get Chat to deliver useful information. Yikes! Figuring out prompts that get the job done turned out to be a challenge. Yet, based on prompts, some texts generated by Chat proved to be pretty useful. They all needed some editing though.

Let's consider the texts just frosting on the cake. What counts is the images.

While we're here, let's find out how to get around

*Tag for expired US copyright of object image:

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