Paris post- 2
More pictures.
This time of art-- because what's Paris without its museums? :-)
Some of my personal highlights from the Musee d'Orsay and the Rodin Museum.
The Musee d'Orsay-- my 2nd favorite museum ever and IMHO, just the right size that a museum ought to be. Not too insanely big like the Louvre and not too disappointingly small-- and with so many gorgeous works of sheer genius inside it, I could spend all day in it.
Just because it's cute-- Pan and a puppy. ^-^
Grace and Beauty-- molded onto plaster and nearly given life. I swear looking at this I felt more sympathy for Pygmalion than I ever had before.
Renoir and his Dance in the Country and in the City-- 2 favorites. I could go to the Musee d'Orsay and see only these two paintings and feel satisfied.
Jean Delville- L'ecole de Platon. It's gorgeous, isn't it-- altho' I don't think the picture can do it justice.
The 'new' discovery I made on this latest visit to the Orsay, this artist, Paul Signac, whom I'd somehow managed to overlook on all my previous visits but fell in love with this time. This one is his 'Chateau des Papes' that first caught my attention.
Paul Signac- Entree du la Porte de Rochelle. The painting that probably cemented my falling in love with Signac's work.
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And now for Rodin-- my favorite sculptor. (and the Rodin Museum, my all-time favorite museum of the ones I've been to.)
Le Penseur (et Moi) ;-)-- now, just what is he thinking about? I think I'm more curious about that than I am about what the Mona Lisa is thinking about. ;-)
Because I have to-- I just love the way Rodin had of capturing the human hand-- it's beautiful.
Le Baiser (the Kiss)-- my favorite sculpture ever, hands down. *sigh, swoon, drool, dies* *loves* If I ever come to Paris and had to pick just one work of art to see in the city, it'd be this, I think.
Thus endeth the shortest 'tour' through the Musee d'Orsay and the Rodin Museum in the history of time-- and a brief lesson in my tastes in art. ;-)
And incidentally, my first (of many) Geek Moments in Paris-- down in the Crypte Archeologique when one of the explanatory placards mentioned 'the famous alchemist, Nicholas Flamel' and I added in my head, 'the only known maker of the Sorcerer's Stone'. ^-^
This time of art-- because what's Paris without its museums? :-)
Some of my personal highlights from the Musee d'Orsay and the Rodin Museum.
The Musee d'Orsay-- my 2nd favorite museum ever and IMHO, just the right size that a museum ought to be. Not too insanely big like the Louvre and not too disappointingly small-- and with so many gorgeous works of sheer genius inside it, I could spend all day in it.
Just because it's cute-- Pan and a puppy. ^-^
Grace and Beauty-- molded onto plaster and nearly given life. I swear looking at this I felt more sympathy for Pygmalion than I ever had before.
Renoir and his Dance in the Country and in the City-- 2 favorites. I could go to the Musee d'Orsay and see only these two paintings and feel satisfied.
Jean Delville- L'ecole de Platon. It's gorgeous, isn't it-- altho' I don't think the picture can do it justice.
The 'new' discovery I made on this latest visit to the Orsay, this artist, Paul Signac, whom I'd somehow managed to overlook on all my previous visits but fell in love with this time. This one is his 'Chateau des Papes' that first caught my attention.
Paul Signac- Entree du la Porte de Rochelle. The painting that probably cemented my falling in love with Signac's work.
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And now for Rodin-- my favorite sculptor. (and the Rodin Museum, my all-time favorite museum of the ones I've been to.)
Le Penseur (et Moi) ;-)-- now, just what is he thinking about? I think I'm more curious about that than I am about what the Mona Lisa is thinking about. ;-)
Because I have to-- I just love the way Rodin had of capturing the human hand-- it's beautiful.
Le Baiser (the Kiss)-- my favorite sculpture ever, hands down. *sigh, swoon, drool, dies* *loves* If I ever come to Paris and had to pick just one work of art to see in the city, it'd be this, I think.
Thus endeth the shortest 'tour' through the Musee d'Orsay and the Rodin Museum in the history of time-- and a brief lesson in my tastes in art. ;-)
And incidentally, my first (of many) Geek Moments in Paris-- down in the Crypte Archeologique when one of the explanatory placards mentioned 'the famous alchemist, Nicholas Flamel' and I added in my head, 'the only known maker of the Sorcerer's Stone'. ^-^