The first is a tribute to Debussy. I like the pallette he chose.
I like the "interdigitation", but the rest of it??? NeoEgyptian?
By Kees Van Dogen, referred to in the phamplet as a franco-dutch "Fauvist".
Nice Museé des Beaux Arts
This place is right down the street form me, less than 10 minutes walk, so I decided to check it out. Housed in an old Russian Palace it houses a small collection of local "Fine Art" and an eclectic collection of 19th-20th century works
Click on the pictures for a larger version.
| The building... tucked away in a residential district. | |
| The ground floor contained many religious works... in summary, rather gruesome pictures of how a saint was martyred and then the saint in heaven. This is about the fifth depiction I have seen of St. Marguerite in the last month. | |
| Here John the Baptist earns his name by baptising Jesus... in the next panel he is decapitated... I wonder if medeviel kids ran around decapitating each other? | |
| Detail from a staff... a serpant eating...well something... | |
| This is St. Roch, for whom the local large hospital is named. Silver, apparently from the sacrity of the hospital. | |
| The three muses...one of the symbols of Nice. There is a larger statue in a park downtown I need to go visit. | |
| This is one of several paintings by Carle Van Loo, native to Nice, and principal painter to King Louis XV. This is wisdom controlling power. A lesson a certain administration... ok, I'll shut up. | |
| Many of the Van Loo paintings were massive. That is Theseus taming the fire breathing bull of Marathon. A Rodin sculpture is in the forground. | |
| This painting was in a very dark spot on the staircase. I wish it had turned out better, but the hands were very well done...and cupid has a great look on his face. | |
| This is the work of a local impresisonist Raoul Dufy. It is a scene of Nice... the used to be a large restaurant in the bay before the Germans blew it up. | |
| The first is a tribute to Debussy. I like the pallette he chose. |
|
| I like the "interdigitation", but the rest of it??? NeoEgyptian?
By Kees Van Dogen, referred to in the phamplet as a franco-dutch "Fauvist". |
|
| Meet Gustav-Adolf Mossa. He is one serious screwed up, but talented fellow. It's like Heavy Metal meets Poe. | |
| |
|
| Uh, in order... "Bathsheeba","Salome","Elle",can't remember,"Siren" and "La Femme auz squelettes (skeletons)" | |
| Detailed, interesting composition, but very disturbing, creepy and misogynistic. Why do I want to get inside his head again? | |
| ...and that was it! | |
|
|
|