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rubyredrose) wrote2003-12-20 02:57 pm
rubyredrose) wrote2003-12-20 02:57 pm
I have returned! All rejoice.
Home again, home again. Dittly-dittly-do. I can now cross a few things off my "list of things to do before I die." And it's not even sundown yet. Bonus. n_n
Just a few thoughts shaking around in my skull before I run off to DnD:
I have now seen Van Gogh's Starry Night. If you've not seen it in person, you haven't really seen it. No print or photo I've even seen of it does it justice. Same goes for Monet's Waterlillies...tho only three of the paintings were actually there. Still mesmerizing. Cezanne's The Bather, was probably my favorite from the entire trip. Got a craptastic postcard - it looks like someone took a photo, then used the auto levels function of Photoshop. >_<; Why is it that the most amazing exhibits have the lousiest gift shops? Oh well. Maybe I can find a decent poster online or something...
Saw some stuff I'd not heard of before that was tre-nifty. Unfortunately, I can't remember the names terribly well. ;_; Letsee...Matta's Vitigo of Eros? Something like that. I forget the artist, but there was a really amazing one called Funeral of the Anarchist...somebody. Who's name I also can't remember. Of course, the museum's website doesn't even mention the ones I like. *twitch*'
The website does mention Dali's Persistence of Memory. I was underwelmed. Also a few from Picasso's cubist period...Rothco...Pollock...eh. What a useless website.
All in all, worth a 5 hour one way drive, and even putting up with my parents' snoring. Man I hope I don't snore that loud...
::edit::
I found out the names & titles of two of the paintings... Carlo Carrà's Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, and Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren's The Vertigo of Eros. Of course, it appears that both are so unknown as to be impossible to get prints of any of their stuff. >_<;;
And on an unrelated note: Samwise Gamgee is the worlds coolest gardener. :g:
Just a few thoughts shaking around in my skull before I run off to DnD:
I have now seen Van Gogh's Starry Night. If you've not seen it in person, you haven't really seen it. No print or photo I've even seen of it does it justice. Same goes for Monet's Waterlillies...tho only three of the paintings were actually there. Still mesmerizing. Cezanne's The Bather, was probably my favorite from the entire trip. Got a craptastic postcard - it looks like someone took a photo, then used the auto levels function of Photoshop. >_<; Why is it that the most amazing exhibits have the lousiest gift shops? Oh well. Maybe I can find a decent poster online or something...
Saw some stuff I'd not heard of before that was tre-nifty. Unfortunately, I can't remember the names terribly well. ;_; Letsee...Matta's Vitigo of Eros? Something like that. I forget the artist, but there was a really amazing one called Funeral of the Anarchist...somebody. Who's name I also can't remember. Of course, the museum's website doesn't even mention the ones I like. *twitch*'
The website does mention Dali's Persistence of Memory. I was underwelmed. Also a few from Picasso's cubist period...Rothco...Pollock...eh. What a useless website.
All in all, worth a 5 hour one way drive, and even putting up with my parents' snoring. Man I hope I don't snore that loud...
::edit::
I found out the names & titles of two of the paintings... Carlo Carrà's Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, and Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren's The Vertigo of Eros. Of course, it appears that both are so unknown as to be impossible to get prints of any of their stuff. >_<;;
And on an unrelated note: Samwise Gamgee is the worlds coolest gardener. :g: