Tracy I
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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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Stopped 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-TEXT
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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.stjohnscocathedral.com/the-co-cathedral/caravaggio/
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Tracy I
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We just watched this on PBS about the theft and the whole process of getting it back!
08:01 AM - Apr 05, 2024
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I believe it was a different painting... the St John altarpiece is 12 feet high x 17 feet wide - and the massive size was only a part of its impact on me!
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2. Rothko - I didn't understand the paintings until I saw them in person, then it was like a blinding lightning flash.
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4. Lucian Freud's massive paintings. Another I didn't understand at all until seeing the work up close - so very different from even high-quality reproductions in a book. I'm a long-time reader of critic Robert Hughes' work, so I took his advice and went to this exhibit - loved it.
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There are/or at least have been several of his at SFMOMA, I didn’t appreciate them early on as much as I do now. Last summer we saw the two person play about him, “Red”
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