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Post by willow on Jul 31, 2008 13:47:00 GMT -5
I thought it might be interesting to learn about the various tastes in art on the forum, so I would love to know what your favorite work(s) of art is/are and where it can be found in Paris. This can be anything from a painting in the Louvre to a statue in a courtyard tucked away somewhere. I'd be filling to accept a fancy dessert as a work of art as well ;D
I'll post mine as soon as I can find the names and pictures I saved!
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Jul 31, 2008 14:53:38 GMT -5
The one of the men scraping the floor in the d'Orsay ("Les Raboteurs", by Gustave Caillebotte), and the Titian (I think) portrait of Francois Ier in the Louvre (amazing, the strength of personality that comes through).
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Post by keylimejet on Jul 31, 2008 15:33:18 GMT -5
Painting - Les Noces de Cana by Paolo Caliari. It hangs right across from the Mona Lisa in the Louvre (at least it did the last time I was there). It's just so magnificent in scope, size, color, content - everything! Someday, when I'm not dragging bored kids or whoever with me, I want to spend an uninterupted hour in front of it. Everyone else just get out of the way! ;D  Tapestries - Lady & Unicorn series at the Cluny. Truly breathtaking. I have no pictures, unfortunately. I don't think photography is allowed in that room. Sculpture - too many to choose from! Dessert - the one from framboiseetrose's avatar. I really does taste as great as it looks, and that's saying a lot! |
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Post by Jody on Jul 31, 2008 15:34:50 GMT -5
I have too many favorites to list. I love any of the Impressionists, particularly Manet and Cassatt  Manet Cassatt www.glasgow.gov.uk/ImageGalleryInternet/Image.aspx?Image=125We saw the Arcimboldo exhibit at the Luxembourgh Palace last year and I loved everything I saw.  One thinbg that overwhelms me too quickly is religious art, I can only take in so many Madonnas and arrowed saints. Modern art,Picasso , etc doesn't do anything for me though I do love the building of the Picasso museum. I like the Palais de Tokyo building and exhibit areasd but most of the art works don't interest me. Les Raboteurs", is one of my favorites too! I also really like the crowning of osephine by David  |
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Post by willow on Jul 31, 2008 15:36:31 GMT -5
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Post by ray on Jul 31, 2008 15:41:13 GMT -5
http://www.musee-orangerie.fr./homes/home_id24799_u1l2.htm
If you click on visite virtuelle, you can tour the rooms with the water lilies.
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Jul 31, 2008 18:14:37 GMT -5
Thanks Willow - what amazed me, on my first visit, was the size of it! I had seen reproductions, and had no idea it's pretty much life sized.
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Post by sunshine817 on Jul 31, 2008 21:48:19 GMT -5
I saw one of the panels of Water Lilies at the Cleveland Art Institute years ago (it's a part of their permanent collection) -- and was frozen to the spot for a few minutes while I drank it in.
I'm love the Impressionists, so anything by Monet or Van Gogh can move me to tears. I remember standing in front of Starry Night at the D'Orsay, fixated on that rather small but incredibly powerful painting. It literally drew me in, and I got goosebumps when we visited Arles and walked along the Rhone.
The only downside of seeing these fabulous works in person is that a photograph or reproduction just never manages to capture the magic of the light play of the originals. Yet another reason to travel!
On my first visit to Paris, we visited the Louvre, and I was videotaping Les Noces de Cana - I was zooming in on various people in the painting, panning around, and actually managed to get lost in the painting -- it's so enormous, that seen through a viewfinder, it becomes overwhelmingly huge.
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Post by willow on Jul 31, 2008 22:27:27 GMT -5
My Favorites: L'Ecole de Platon at Orsay  Not sure what this one is called at the Louvre :  At Pompidou: Matisse, Jazz  |
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Aug 1, 2008 9:55:14 GMT -5
Actually, the Venus at the Louvre is a favorite of mine but the room is usually so crowded! I first saw it several years ago before it seems to have hit the radar for every tourist on the planet. There is something about her expression - that thousand-yard (or year, or mile) stare - that really fascinates and gets to me. There is no mistaking that she is truly a godess - it's not so much that you can sense that she doesn't "care" about humans, but that she just doesn't know they exist at all, they are truly and literally beneath her notice. I could sit and look at her for a very long time, and still never have a clue what's going on in her head - although her mind is clearly working overtime on something.
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Post by chicchantal on Aug 1, 2008 11:55:55 GMT -5
Mine is la fee electricite by Raoul Dufy which used to be in the Musee d'Art Moderne, but I think it's moved now. It was the largest painting in the world. Anyone know where it is now?
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Post by denise on Aug 1, 2008 13:06:31 GMT -5
???Now I am a complete philistine where art is concerned. I didn't even do it at school (even though I discovered four years ago that I can paint!) This year we visited the Musee d'art Moderne and I came across a painting of Gerhard Richter,(never heard of him) It was so beautiful it made me cry. :'(This was such an unexpected reaction to a painting. It was called Abstraktes Bild 1987, and it was a large abstract canvas of brightly coloured paint, but it looked like lovely glade with trees and water, so peaceful. I tried to buy a postcard or poster but they didn't have one and I have googled it since, only to discover that Abstraktes bild is a whole series of paintings by this artist. So if anyone can point me in the right direction for a copy of some sort I would be grateful. I know the last painting of his sold at Christies for approx £2.6million so I'm not asking for an original or even a print!!! but it would just be nice to see it in the internet. Denise Love from England  |
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Post by Jody on Aug 1, 2008 13:56:35 GMT -5
Is this the one Denise?  |
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Post by denise on Aug 1, 2008 14:15:55 GMT -5
;D Thanks so much demarais, for going to the trouble of finding this, the painting I love is very similar but it has more green in it. The one you have posted is from the same series and I also like it.
These cannot be apreciated unless you see them on a huge canvas.
Denise
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Post by annettecinca on Aug 1, 2008 18:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Aug 1, 2008 18:17:29 GMT -5
If it is the same one, that's really not that expensive (as such things go, that is). Wonderful colors, I can see why you like his work Denise.
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Post by chicchantal on Aug 2, 2008 4:51:26 GMT -5
I also loved the Chagall ceiling in the opera Garnier.
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Post by Truffaut on Aug 2, 2008 8:57:20 GMT -5
Ah, "Les Raboteurs".... I was so excited when we decided to have the parquet floors in our apartment refinished. Imagine my disappointment when we got a scraggly crew of old fat men from the banlieues!  |
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Post by geordy on Aug 2, 2008 9:25:47 GMT -5
My taste must be different then what the curators, or the PR folks/Buyer whatever think has mass appeal. Often at an exhibition the piece I want a post card or print of ...does not have a print or postcard!  Too many favorites to mention...some I do have adorning my walls...in postcard or print form!!! Many at Orsay, including Seurat's circus bareback rider! I was pleased to see it on the ticket one trip! |
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Post by denise on Aug 2, 2008 9:34:11 GMT -5
;D ;DYes I think it's the same one!!!! I wrote down 1987 but that may be the timehe started the series. I am going to buy it come next payday it's a good price at £29.99p.........  . A bit broke at the moment after my trip.  Thanks Annette and everyone for your help.....I love this forum, people are so nice. |
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. A bit broke at the moment after my trip. 
Let the riot begin! LOL - 
hahahha