I don't know much about art, but I know what I like.
and when the medium is paintings, the thing I like best is Impressionist paintings. Cezanne and many others are very good, but for me and a great many other people, Monet is the best. After xhollydayx and I failed to see the Barcelona exhibition because we waited until the last second, we decided that we would go to Monet in Normandy as soon as possible. This proved to be a wise choice, as even on a relatively nice Saturday afternoon the exhibit was not overly crowded and we had time to wander through at our own pace. The exhibit traces the life and work of Monet by tieing it to specific locations in Normandy, starting with tourist hotspots he painted as a young painter and ending up at the famous water lily garden he installed at his house in Giverny.
The exhibition will run you $15 per adult, but you do get the audio guide book gadget as part of the admittance fee. It took the two of us roughly 90 minutes to go through all the rooms, and although there were some that I wish I could have spent a litte more time on you probably won't need more than two hours unless you are feeling particularly obsessed about a specific painting, which lord knows happens to me upon occasion.
The capping highlight of the exhibition is obviously the Water Lily room, which features the gigantic mural that the CMA owns and several other pieces of varying sizes and shapes, including the round water lily painting that inspired a stained glass piece I purchased as a gift for my father several years ago. The water lily room is the final room of approximately ten. Each room is tied to a specific port of the Normandy landscape, and the rooms proceded chronologically from the 1860s to Monet's death in 1926.
All in all, the exhibition is excellent and I highly recommend it.
The exhibition will run you $15 per adult, but you do get the audio guide book gadget as part of the admittance fee. It took the two of us roughly 90 minutes to go through all the rooms, and although there were some that I wish I could have spent a litte more time on you probably won't need more than two hours unless you are feeling particularly obsessed about a specific painting, which lord knows happens to me upon occasion.
The capping highlight of the exhibition is obviously the Water Lily room, which features the gigantic mural that the CMA owns and several other pieces of varying sizes and shapes, including the round water lily painting that inspired a stained glass piece I purchased as a gift for my father several years ago. The water lily room is the final room of approximately ten. Each room is tied to a specific port of the Normandy landscape, and the rooms proceded chronologically from the 1860s to Monet's death in 1926.
All in all, the exhibition is excellent and I highly recommend it.