Spriends I was talking art museums with Linda this morning and was wondering , what’s your favorite painting or exhibit that you’ve seen in person??? 🖼️
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Linda Eisenstein @LindaEisensteinStopped at the Museum to see Monet in Focus: 3 paintings on loan from the Musée Marmottan + 2 from Cleveland's collection, including a crown jewel: the huge Water Lilies that usually dominates the Impressionist room. I'll never forget seeing the whole triptych together here. More in ALT-TEXT03:16 PM - Apr 02, 2024![The huge Water Lilies. In Monet & the Garden, seen here & at the Met, we got to see all 3 sections together. Bob & I returned at least 4X.]()
![A view of Rouen Cathedral, Day. Monet simultaneously painted multiple canvasses of the same place at different hours, switching to another as the light changed. From the Marmottan.]()
![This serene little gardener's cottage from the Antibes is in the Cleveland collection.]()
![A small study of water lily pads in a silvery river with sunset clouds above. From Musée Marmottan.]()
![I remember the painting of this Japanese bridge Monet built in his own garden from when we visited the Marmottan in Paris.]()
08:53 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
The Monet murals at musee d’orangerie. Breathtaking. A second is the georgia O’keefe museum in Santa Fe. But the Guggenheim has a wonderful vibration too.
05:07 PM - Apr 08, 2024
In response to Evolve Undefined.
I think I would really enjoy the O’Keefe in Santa Fe. It’s a bucket list location.
05:17 PM - Apr 08, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
La Vista de Toledo by El Greco at Metropolitan. My Spanish class was supposed to be looking for Goyas when I ran across it, and it blew me away.
01:22 PM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Marie Guenther.
That looks really interesting online, no doubt another that is even more impactful in person !
02:32 PM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
1) Ansel Adams exhibition at Boston Museum of Fine Arts around 10 yrs ago
2) Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
2) Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
09:45 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
I saw a Dürer on special exhibit in Chicago once that simply took my breath away. It was moon on water. I was young enough to assume all art would be so moving, & didn't note the name of the piece.
08:52 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Deb.
My aunt took all of us to see it. Damn that was in 75/76 at the museum. Even as a kid it had my jaw on the floor. It's a shame now that when you go now as a non-resident you almost have to have rent money to visit but that is what happens when you cut back on cultural funding.
08:45 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
Great question!
1. Caravaggio's The Beheading of St John the Baptist at the Co-Cathedral, Malta - I didn't know it lived there - had *just* been cleaned + back in place. Almost no one else in the room - literal jaw-drop, I was dazed
https://www.stjohnscocathe...
1. Caravaggio's The Beheading of St John the Baptist at the Co-Cathedral, Malta - I didn't know it lived there - had *just* been cleaned + back in place. Almost no one else in the room - literal jaw-drop, I was dazed
https://www.stjohnscocathe...
06:29 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
“largest known assemblage of pictographic “masks” in” US, made by Jornada Mogollon people “beneath rock overhangs, within boulder shelters, and at other odd and hidden places… This well-preserved (and protected) collection of pictographs is part of the Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site”, TX.
02:53 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Drew Milroy.
I had never seen these! I can relate to the experience, several years ago we took a guided tour of a petroglyph canyon at China Lake Naval Station. Completely different style, that one is heavy on sheep drawings rather than masks but still amazing to view something that old.
03:26 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
The first exhibit I ever saw was King Tut at Chicago's Field Museum, 1977. But the one that moved me most was the Pompeii exhibit at Seattle's Pacific Science Center in 2014. The artifacts and statues were incredibly beautiful, but this plaster cast of one of the victims brought me to tears.
02:48 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Thee NW F#@&ing Magpie.
That is moving to feel a human connection to people who lived so long ago.
03:28 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Thee NW F#@&ing Magpie.
I saw Tut at the Field in 77 as well. Truly awesome.
04:56 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Florence D.
Several people have said King Tut. A scaled down version toured in the mid 2000s. We saw it in SF. Which reminds me now of an even more influential (on me) exhibit there of Olmec works in that time period 2009-11 ish
03:46 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
The first painting that absolutely transfixed me was Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa," which I saw on my first trip to Europe in 1976. Other paintings have been more meaningful to me, but I have never forgotten the impact of this one.
12:56 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to WestCoaster.
Yes, sometimes you just get a feeling or a connection to the artist or their ideas when you see things in person!
03:48 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
Renoir’s “Danse a Bougival” at the Boston MFA draws me in. There’s a sculpture of Medea holding a knife that also takes my entire breath. There was the coolest John Singer Sergeant exhibit that paired some of his costumes and props with his paintings. Extraordinary! (Pictures are out of order.)
12:06 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Jenny Leung.
Oh wow, that robe! I love that you showed pictures of all four things!
12:21 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Jenny Leung.
The robe, with the portrait of the legendary Ellen Terry wearing it in her role as Lady MacBeth in the background, is a masterpiece in itself. Those glittering flecks in it are beetle wings!
03:09 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
Can’t pick just one:
- Seeing “The Starry Night” by Van Gogh at the MoMA.
- Anytime I go to DC to the NGA, seeing Renoir’s “Girl with a Watering Can” & Harnett’s “The Old Violin” are must sees.
- Chihuly’s exhibit at the Biltmore a few years back was amazing.
- Anything by Hopper (anywhere)
- Seeing “The Starry Night” by Van Gogh at the MoMA.
- Anytime I go to DC to the NGA, seeing Renoir’s “Girl with a Watering Can” & Harnett’s “The Old Violin” are must sees.
- Chihuly’s exhibit at the Biltmore a few years back was amazing.
- Anything by Hopper (anywhere)
12:05 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
Albert Bierstadt -California Spring
stood in front of this at the de Young Museum in SF, and "lost myself"in the landscape.
Van Gogh -Cafe Terrace at Night- just love this scene (the colors!) I have a large framed canvas at home.
stood in front of this at the de Young Museum in SF, and "lost myself"in the landscape.
Van Gogh -Cafe Terrace at Night- just love this scene (the colors!) I have a large framed canvas at home.
11:53 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Sue Wright.
I believe I have seen CA Spring, and I like the other as well, although I don’t think I’ve seen it in person. I notice both of these have an area illuminated by a very yellow light,
12:06 AM - Apr 05, 2024
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In response to Aspie Allie.
I’m looking these up if I’m no familiar and that one is totally not what I expected!
11:51 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
Favorite painting - Starry Night, Van Gogh at MOMA
Favorite set of paintings- Van Gogh collection at The Met, NYC.
Favorite set of paintings- Van Gogh collection at The Met, NYC.
11:46 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Sue Lee.
Guessing these also look far different than the smaller version you see on greeting cards and whatnot. Like everyone we did see the “Van Gogh Experience” thing. It’s a unique perspective but to me too far removed from the artist’s experience to be the same works. I prefer some of the actuals.
12:02 AM - Apr 05, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
I'm a sucker for fashion/design exhibits. One of my favorites is the V&A Fashion Collection. Here's a couple of snapshots from the Punk area with, of course, examples of Vivian Westwood's clothing.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/coll...
https://www.vam.ac.uk/coll...
11:43 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Lipsticktraces.
Wow, I know very little about fashion, but I think it’s wild how trends constantly reincarnate.
11:49 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
Mine has to be the White Girl, by Whistler. It’s in the US National Gallery. It dominates the exhibit.
So much amazing paint.
So much amazing paint.
10:44 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Beti.
The Rivera murals at DIA are indeed incredible. When I went to Windsor to gamble & play poker before our casinos opened, Bob & I would sometimes cross the river to see them.
10:21 PM - Apr 04, 2024
In response to Tracy I.
Two from Dayton Art Institute, we had a membership until last year:
Dale Chihuly - various pieces arranged in different ways - favorite was the jumbled pieces on the overhead pane of glass, lit from above.
Norman Rockwell - the Ruby Bridges image is amazing at full size and close up.
Dale Chihuly - various pieces arranged in different ways - favorite was the jumbled pieces on the overhead pane of glass, lit from above.
Norman Rockwell - the Ruby Bridges image is amazing at full size and close up.
09:22 PM - Apr 04, 2024
