Above the van Gogh collection at the Detroit Institute of Art. Three really nice pieces, the style recognizable at a glance. Several million dollars in art, on one wall.
1: van Gogh, Monet, do you know them when you see them?
2: When was the first time a museum display made you emotional or left you speechless?
3: Are Photographs art?
4: Should we have touchable art?
5: If travel were not an obstacle what museum would you spend next Saturday in?
My answers:
1: van Gogh, Monet, do you know them when you see them? Oh yes, I always check the tags, but yes. I love impressionist art.
2: When was the first time a museum display made you emotional or left you speechless? A wall filled with Rembrandts in the National Gallery in London. I was both emotional and speechless, the person I was traveling thought I had come unhinged.
3: Are Photographs art? Some are.
4: Should we have touchable art? Yes, recognizing that by touching it we change it and it evolves with being touched.
5: If travel were not an obstacle what museum would you spend next Saturday in? The Hermitage in St Petersburg - with the difficulties of travel I will probably never see that one.
Your answers in the comments below.
1. I love the Impressionists too.
ReplyDelete2. In Paris, (many years ago now) a magnificent roomful of Monet's Water Lilies were on display at the L'Orangerie.
3. Can be.
4. Indeed yes.
5. I'd like to return to the Prado. But for more than just Saturday.
1: usually yes, but I always check the tags to make sure. I love the impressionist period
ReplyDelete2: when I saw the mona lisa in person
3: sure, ansel adams for example
4: yes, if and only if it would not damage the piece
5: the louvre and my own philly museum of art https://www.philamuseum.org
1) I can spot a Monet or a Van Gogh from another room in a museum. I adore both but do really love me a Van Gogh.
ReplyDelete2) The first time in Amsterdam when I entered the Rijksmuseum, speechless.
3) Yes
4) Yes
5) Musee d’Orsay Paris
The d'Orsay makes me melt.
Delete1. Nope. Picasso, sure.
ReplyDelete2. Art museums don't do that for me. Memorials do and the aerospace museum in San Diego.
3. Yep. I think some of Mitchell's and Maddie's photos are pure works of art!
4. Yep.
5. I really don't know.
A museum of nude men would do it for you I bet!!!!
DeleteThanks for the lovely comment Deedles. Your too kind. I have three camera now. Gets to be a lot when traveling.
Only if the nude men are the ones conducting the tours! I seem to be a landscape kind of person (all those years of jigsaw puzzles). I kind of like the paintings of the roly poly chicks, too.
Delete1: van Gogh, Monet, do you know them when you see them? Most of the time.
ReplyDelete2: When was the first time a museum display made you emotional or left you speechless? Not really art, but the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, left me teary eyed seeing some of the art and the few belongings in the house.
3: Are Photographs art? By all means yes.
4: Should we have touchable art? You mean men aren't?
5: If travel were not an obstacle what museum would you spend next Saturday in? The Louvre.
ReplyDelete1: van Gogh, Monet, do you know them when you see them? Yep.
2: When was the first time a museum display made you emotional or left you speechless? Art? Probably the age of 10 when my mother took us to a Turner exhibit. Museum in general? NYC Natural History when I was 4.
3: Are Photographs art? Yes
4: Should we have touchable art? Yes.
5: If travel were not an obstacle what museum would you spend next Saturday in? El Prado. And it’s not far at all. I should be ashamed.