It looks like your weekend did not suck! You definitely had better weather than I did. (But then all I did all weekend was hang out inside staring at either the TV [Orphan Black] or the computer screen [Tumblr], so the awful weather actually kind of facilitated my laziness.)
The awful weather on Thursday and Friday of our trip meant we spent 7 hours in the Musée d'Orsay and then 8 hours in the Louvre (respectively), so the travelogue is pretty much OMFG ART.
There was an exhibition at Orsay (I reblogged sthg about it on Tumblr) that was stuffed full of amazing dark romantic art. If the exhibition wasn't closing that weekend I would've told you to drop everything and come see it now now now. I bought the catalogue.
I'm house-sitting for a fortnight (but if I was in Canada I'd just be house-sitting for two weeks) starting this weekend; I'm going to bring Orphan Black with me and get into it.
...artist and/or painting names to Google? I'm sure there are horrible digital versions of that art online somewhere for me to poke through and yearn to see full-sized.
Orphan Black is easy to get into. Marathoning it is EXCEPTIONALLY easy. (I hope you like it!)
art! I'll flip through the catalogue and type stuff. The catalogue is in French so my translating will be spotty.
Goya, obviously, since he's in the subtitle of the exhibition (particularly the Les Désastres de la guerre and Les Proverbes series) also Delacroix Munch's Vampire blew my mind, I had to keep going back to it - all the more sad that the reproduction in the catalouge is so tiny Johann Heinrich Füssli (who is apparently called Henry Fuseli in English?) - lots of great stuff, and I'd not come across him before John Martin (d. 1854) did massive canvasses with names like Apocalypse (aka Le Grand jour de Sa colère) and scenes from Macbeth and a giant genius work called Pandemonium. Théodore Géricault = badass Franz von Stuck Max Klinger Odilon Redon Paul Delaroche Thomas Cole, whose work looks like it was inspiration for LotR illustrations Samuel Colman Ary Scheffer William Bouguereau's Dante et Virgile aux enfers is recommended for Dante's ~OMG~ face and the winged demon's cross-armed "pfft, tourists" expression (also the writhing naked male forms fighting in the foreground) Franz Ludwig Catel Caspar David Friedrich Carl Blechen Ferdinand Fellner - really neat monochrome pieces, almost cartoon style Carlos Schwabe Gustave Moreau Serafino Macchiati Gabriel von Max Paul Ranson, particularly Les Sorcières autour du feu Thomas Theodor Heine, Ange - sculpture, really cool Charles Sellier, La Femme à la perle aka WHERE ARE HER EYES James Ensor's La Dame en détresse is one of those where you look once, think 'meh', look at the title, and then say 'oooh, neat' (but then I have a thing for titles as part of the work); ditto Léon Spilliaert's Clair de lune et lumières. aaaaaand finally, once we got through to the surrealists it all got a bit much (art overload) but depending on your Magritte feelings, Le Colloque sentimental is also pretty mind-blowing.
...I'm unexpectedly without evening plans. I could either work on my thesis or start Orphan Black now. Hmm.
It was even sexier because I went with my mum. (Actually, I'm looking forward to going back and doing it properly and actually eating at any of the restaurants - Mum's allergic to all food ever but really good at sighing at food packaging.)
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Date: 2013-06-04 10:33 pm (UTC)Travelogue? Or even just moar pictures?
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Date: 2013-06-08 09:17 am (UTC)There was an exhibition at Orsay (I reblogged sthg about it on Tumblr) that was stuffed full of amazing dark romantic art. If the exhibition wasn't closing that weekend I would've told you to drop everything and come see it now now now. I bought the catalogue.
I'm house-sitting for a fortnight (but if I was in Canada I'd just be house-sitting for two weeks) starting this weekend; I'm going to bring Orphan Black with me and get into it.
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Date: 2013-06-08 12:30 pm (UTC)...artist and/or painting names to Google? I'm sure there are horrible digital versions of that art online somewhere for me to poke through and yearn to see full-sized.
Orphan Black is easy to get into. Marathoning it is EXCEPTIONALLY easy. (I hope you like it!)
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Date: 2013-06-08 04:29 pm (UTC)Goya, obviously, since he's in the subtitle of the exhibition (particularly the Les Désastres de la guerre and Les Proverbes series)
also Delacroix
Munch's Vampire blew my mind, I had to keep going back to it - all the more sad that the reproduction in the catalouge is so tiny
Johann Heinrich Füssli (who is apparently called Henry Fuseli in English?) - lots of great stuff, and I'd not come across him before
John Martin (d. 1854) did massive canvasses with names like Apocalypse (aka Le Grand jour de Sa colère) and scenes from Macbeth and a giant genius work called Pandemonium.
Théodore Géricault = badass
Franz von Stuck
Max Klinger
Odilon Redon
Paul Delaroche
Thomas Cole, whose work looks like it was inspiration for LotR illustrations
Samuel Colman
Ary Scheffer
William Bouguereau's Dante et Virgile aux enfers is recommended for Dante's ~OMG~ face and the winged demon's cross-armed "pfft, tourists" expression (also the writhing naked male forms fighting in the foreground)
Franz Ludwig Catel
Caspar David Friedrich
Carl Blechen
Ferdinand Fellner - really neat monochrome pieces, almost cartoon style
Carlos Schwabe
Gustave Moreau
Serafino Macchiati
Gabriel von Max
Paul Ranson, particularly Les Sorcières autour du feu
Thomas Theodor Heine, Ange - sculpture, really cool
Charles Sellier, La Femme à la perle aka WHERE ARE HER EYES
James Ensor's La Dame en détresse is one of those where you look once, think 'meh', look at the title, and then say 'oooh, neat' (but then I have a thing for titles as part of the work); ditto Léon Spilliaert's Clair de lune et lumières.
aaaaaand finally, once we got through to the surrealists it all got a bit much (art overload) but depending on your Magritte feelings, Le Colloque sentimental is also pretty mind-blowing.
...I'm unexpectedly without evening plans. I could either work on my thesis or start Orphan Black now. Hmm.
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Date: 2013-06-08 10:30 pm (UTC)Thank you for the list. :)
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Date: 2013-06-09 12:56 pm (UTC)Since many were new to me I wasn't going to ~presume~. :D
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Date: 2013-06-05 04:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-06-08 09:21 am (UTC)But yeah, pretty cool city. Not bad at all. :)