Louvre and D'Orsay
On Sunday we went in the morning to the Louvre (I started eating lots and drinking lots - I think I might have surprised Jo with how much!!)
I wanted to see the Ancient Greek/Roman sculptures the most, so that's where we went. While pretty amazing, I have to admit I didn't get the same connection I felt when I walked through the Birmingham gallery. I couldn't absorb the reality of these amazing pieces of art and their age.
I then ate some more, and went to see the Italian Paintings culminating in the Mona Lisa. While the Italian paintings weren't my favorite - a bit gaudy and boring theme wise - the Mona Lisa was pretty amazing. The painting is now quite dull, I guess after all the years under lights and with idiots flash camera ing it, but she still follows you with her eyes in an almost hypnotic way. Quite erie.
A sugar cube later and we were in the Musee D'Orsay. We went straight to the top where the Toulouse-Latrec, Van Gogh, Monet and so on are.
Wow.
This stuff really blew me away. I connected with it straight away, especially the Van Gogh... you don't realise from photos/prints how important the texture of the paint is to Van Gogh - he differentiates sections of the painting as much by brush stroke as by colour. And what colours!!
I also really liked Pissaro and Renoir, but I thought that Monet was a bit wishy washy :)
I wanted to see the Ancient Greek/Roman sculptures the most, so that's where we went. While pretty amazing, I have to admit I didn't get the same connection I felt when I walked through the Birmingham gallery. I couldn't absorb the reality of these amazing pieces of art and their age.
I then ate some more, and went to see the Italian Paintings culminating in the Mona Lisa. While the Italian paintings weren't my favorite - a bit gaudy and boring theme wise - the Mona Lisa was pretty amazing. The painting is now quite dull, I guess after all the years under lights and with idiots flash camera ing it, but she still follows you with her eyes in an almost hypnotic way. Quite erie.
A sugar cube later and we were in the Musee D'Orsay. We went straight to the top where the Toulouse-Latrec, Van Gogh, Monet and so on are.
Wow.
This stuff really blew me away. I connected with it straight away, especially the Van Gogh... you don't realise from photos/prints how important the texture of the paint is to Van Gogh - he differentiates sections of the painting as much by brush stroke as by colour. And what colours!!
I also really liked Pissaro and Renoir, but I thought that Monet was a bit wishy washy :)
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