Monday, December 03, 2007
Paris 21
Hi Guys, these few days have been spent wandering about the Luxemborg Palace garden, Musee Dorsay and Saint Chapelle. Every first Sunday of the month is an exciting day as all the museums in Paris are free, including the big players like Lourve and Musee Dorsay.
My feeling of seeing gardens in Paris is that Parisians really know 'how to live'.
Went to the Lourve last Friday as my usual Friday evening regime. I’m always amazed by the artworks and also the sheer size of the Lourve, as although I’ve been there 5 times, everytime I go I stumble upon a new place which I have not visited. Of course I have re-visited some paintings, but I still like to visit the Lourve on Friday evenings, as it is not always the case where you have a world-class museum which is free and at your doorstep, and also because I’m quite free. I marvel at how the sculptors are able to carve out something so soft as silk on something so hard as marble. I marvel at how the painters are able to capture the light contrasts so efficiently on the paintings that makes the painting look realistic. I marvel at the amount of details in a painting, and the painter’s memory in remembering them especially when the objects in the paintings are not dormant. I think that all painters and sculptors have a very good grasp and understanding of peoples’ and animals’ body mechanics such that they are able to paint them so realistically, and hence I would think that they are extremely intelligent, sensitive and patient. It takes around 3 years to complete a big painting, but at least the painting stays forever. I’m thinking I’d be doing accounts for all my life and leave nothing behind. And it is with all these very basic and superficial ‘marvels’ of mine that I decided to make one of my very first ‘art investment’ in a guidebook to the Lourve’s paintings and sculptures so as to appreciate them more.
One of the key reasons why the Europeans are seemingly better in arts is because their education emphasizes it. I took this photo of a teacher holding a hi-fi system playing the music of a flute and the painting comes to life. Children are made to sit down and look and ask questions.
The creases on the cloak, the muscles and bulging veins are all life-life
Look at the light contrasts on the curtain, and the amount of details on the man's linen collar and cuffs. Even his moustache look like that of Pixar's animation.
The Musee Dorsay was equally pleasing. It’s not as big as the Lourve and hence it is easier to navigate around. I particularly like Van Gogh’s paintings. You guys will like them too because I think they are ‘universally likeable’. This is my favourite, La nuit etoilee.
I rented the audio guide and spent 5 hours there and understood that in almost all paintings and sculptures, there is a theme behind it, especially if you look at all the details. Also, through the guide, I realized that even if a painting is very good, there are bound to be skeptical critics who would criticize it as clumsy or elementary. But somehow there is always a silver lining as in many cases, one expert will stand up for the work based on their own understanding and prove the critics otherwise.
Despite the rain, the queue was long and even longer when I left the museum in the afternoon.
The figures are sculptured as dancing. Like what I said the sculptor must have understood the body mechanics very well to make something like that.
The 4 figures from Asia, Africa, America and Europe are holding the globe. The african's chain at her foot is broken signifying the cease of slavery but it is trouted upon by the america figurine.
The ancient ang mohs must be tyrants to think of having human beings as pillars for the table to put their cups on
This is quite out of point but this bed is one of the exhibits and I liked it immediately when I saw it because it looks very steady and solid. I would like my future bed to look like this haha.
Nympheas bleus by Claude Monet. He said that his only skills are painting and gardening, and that the garden in his house is his masterpiece. He also left the corners of the canvas unpainted to reiterate the saying that 'paintings are nothing but colors on a surface'. Only a great painter can pull off something like that.
This painter likes to paint reflections of water although in his own words, he said that painting water is like trying to capture a slice of color. It is like catching the uncatchable and is truly 'unbearable'.
A view out of the clockface with the Sacra-Couer on the left.
Last but not least, inside the Saint Chapelle.
Hope you guys like the pictures which presents the 'artsy-fartsy' side of me haha.
My feeling of seeing gardens in Paris is that Parisians really know 'how to live'.
Went to the Lourve last Friday as my usual Friday evening regime. I’m always amazed by the artworks and also the sheer size of the Lourve, as although I’ve been there 5 times, everytime I go I stumble upon a new place which I have not visited. Of course I have re-visited some paintings, but I still like to visit the Lourve on Friday evenings, as it is not always the case where you have a world-class museum which is free and at your doorstep, and also because I’m quite free. I marvel at how the sculptors are able to carve out something so soft as silk on something so hard as marble. I marvel at how the painters are able to capture the light contrasts so efficiently on the paintings that makes the painting look realistic. I marvel at the amount of details in a painting, and the painter’s memory in remembering them especially when the objects in the paintings are not dormant. I think that all painters and sculptors have a very good grasp and understanding of peoples’ and animals’ body mechanics such that they are able to paint them so realistically, and hence I would think that they are extremely intelligent, sensitive and patient. It takes around 3 years to complete a big painting, but at least the painting stays forever. I’m thinking I’d be doing accounts for all my life and leave nothing behind. And it is with all these very basic and superficial ‘marvels’ of mine that I decided to make one of my very first ‘art investment’ in a guidebook to the Lourve’s paintings and sculptures so as to appreciate them more.
One of the key reasons why the Europeans are seemingly better in arts is because their education emphasizes it. I took this photo of a teacher holding a hi-fi system playing the music of a flute and the painting comes to life. Children are made to sit down and look and ask questions.
The creases on the cloak, the muscles and bulging veins are all life-life
Look at the light contrasts on the curtain, and the amount of details on the man's linen collar and cuffs. Even his moustache look like that of Pixar's animation.
The Musee Dorsay was equally pleasing. It’s not as big as the Lourve and hence it is easier to navigate around. I particularly like Van Gogh’s paintings. You guys will like them too because I think they are ‘universally likeable’. This is my favourite, La nuit etoilee.
I rented the audio guide and spent 5 hours there and understood that in almost all paintings and sculptures, there is a theme behind it, especially if you look at all the details. Also, through the guide, I realized that even if a painting is very good, there are bound to be skeptical critics who would criticize it as clumsy or elementary. But somehow there is always a silver lining as in many cases, one expert will stand up for the work based on their own understanding and prove the critics otherwise.
Despite the rain, the queue was long and even longer when I left the museum in the afternoon.
The figures are sculptured as dancing. Like what I said the sculptor must have understood the body mechanics very well to make something like that.
The 4 figures from Asia, Africa, America and Europe are holding the globe. The african's chain at her foot is broken signifying the cease of slavery but it is trouted upon by the america figurine.
The ancient ang mohs must be tyrants to think of having human beings as pillars for the table to put their cups on
This is quite out of point but this bed is one of the exhibits and I liked it immediately when I saw it because it looks very steady and solid. I would like my future bed to look like this haha.
Nympheas bleus by Claude Monet. He said that his only skills are painting and gardening, and that the garden in his house is his masterpiece. He also left the corners of the canvas unpainted to reiterate the saying that 'paintings are nothing but colors on a surface'. Only a great painter can pull off something like that.
This painter likes to paint reflections of water although in his own words, he said that painting water is like trying to capture a slice of color. It is like catching the uncatchable and is truly 'unbearable'.
A view out of the clockface with the Sacra-Couer on the left.
Last but not least, inside the Saint Chapelle.
Hope you guys like the pictures which presents the 'artsy-fartsy' side of me haha.
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