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Having started in France, I've now moved on to the Czech Republic.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Musée d'Orsay
I'm not much of one for art museums. In particular, I don't much care for painting. It's just too flat for my tastes. I prefer more tactile art forms, such as sculpture and metal work. However, I've been hearing a lot about La Forêt de Fontainebleau (The Forest of Fontainebleau) exhibit, and I decided to head over to the Musée d'Orsay and check it out.
Because this is an exhibit that focuses on the setting rather than the artist, there was a wide variety of art, spanning both different styles and different media (oil, watercolors, pen and ink, even photography and film). As a result, I enjoyed it more than I had expected to.
After the exhibit, I wandered around the rest of the museum, where I found sculpture and some Art Nouveau pieces that are part of their permanent collection. These were even more to my taste, though I didn't find anything that I actively coveted. Well, maybe Fremiet's St. Michael, but what would I do with a life size St. Michael? No, much better to let the d'Orsay keep it for me.
Labels: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, sightseeing
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