Art in Paris
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
I haven’t been doing much in the way of my own artwork lately, but I’ve been lucky enough to get more than my fair share of great art museums in the past week or so. I just got back Saturday night from a trip to Paris, which involved two trips to the Louvre and one to the Musee D’Orsay. Both were, of course, absolutely amazing. D’Orsay was by far my favorite, simply because I’m a huge fan of Impressionism and post-Impressionism, but the Louvre was also great. I got to see the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace (simply put, one of the greatest pieces ever sculpted), the Mona Lisa (of course), two Vermeers, and one of my other favorite sculptures, Cupid & Psyche (detail photo at left). At the moment, I’m working on getting together a Webshots album with all my photos from Paris, nicely sorted by theme (Chartres, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, amazing artwork, etc). It’s very, very far from complete at the moment, but the link is right here. I’ll try to add more pictures every day.
In other news, I’ll be going home this weekend and I plan to set aside a couple hours to finish up the painting of the old Beetle that I started over Christmas break. I haven’t posted a picture of that here yet, but I will when it’s done–so probably this weekend.
I’m also considering a trip to the National Gallery tomorrow to see the Cezanne exhibit, which is apparently phenomenal. (Wait…it’s Cezanne. Of course it’s great.) My next few weekends are booked solid, but I figure it will probably be less crowded on a weekday anyway. Perhaps I’ll swing by the Dada exhibit too, by means of contrast.
