oo great evening tonight at the Musee d'Orsay - a converted train station that houses primarily and almost exclusively mid 18th century artists to Impressionists. Amazing quality collection, there was almost more things I had seen in pictures there then pieces I hadn't. I was blown away most especially by the Degas pastels, but there were the Monet chapel studies, and 2 van gohe self-portraits and his room and a few others that i felt were almost better, and cezanne and pissaro and and and.... it was spectacular to be able to see the originals, still looking (in some cases) glossy with wet oil - much more vibrant then pictures. I was suprised by how much I liked some of the work by the Naturalists and Symbolists, art movements I hadn't given much thought to...
also they had a splendid collection of art nuevou environments, fun to get to walk through whole spaces rather then just look at museum pieces - I greatly admire the artistry of the pieces, but feel more firmly now that i wouldn't want them in my house - something about the dark-nature vining takeover implications bothers me. I still adore the Makintosh roses, though, and maybe as a wall piece in the style could be fun.
I loved the way they had converted the station, instead of cramped little drywalled rooms they allowed the scale to stay large, and the walls were faced/created with natural rough-cut ?limestone or marble?. also in other places worked polished concrete - the subtle variations in the walls really made the pieces feel less... artificially placed i think. The main promonade was a little postmodern pastiche - corny imitation column heads and angles, but the elaborate steel rivitted structure poking out pretty much made up for it.
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