Don't know if any of you are art lovers, but the High Museum in Atlanta has an exchange program with the Louvre in Paris. Currently showing some of the treasures (art wise) of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. Unbelievable stuff, check it out if you get a chance.

Also saw some Reniors, Monets, and Rembrandts!

Oh yeah, our homeboy Howard Finster is the coolest.

Any of my Europoean friends ever been to the Louvre?

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa

They've sent Rembrandts and Monets to Atlanta ? Must have costed a fortune for the shipping-insurance...
I've been to Louvre, incredible to see all that legendary art,
but it took 2 hours to get inside, such a long que.

We tried to get 'em to send Mona for three rednecks,a watermelon, and a fried chicken. They weren't biting!

Been there a few times. Incredible place, but you really need a day to do it justice.

Yeah, they had Van Gogh's "Starry Night" a few years ago. The people in Atlanta really work hard to get the best of the best.

Van Gogh is my personal favorite, but the Impressionists as a whole are too cool. I envy you going to the real deal!

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> We tried to get 'em to send Mona for three
> rednecks,a watermelon, and a fried chicken. They
> weren't biting!



Elmo for that much,you can only get Mona Lotta.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Like Gazza, couple of times. Also agree about a day...
But who can really do that in a town full of French women
& bars & cafes... ?
I'm more into the Dadaists & Bauhaus, but the Dutch arent too bad...
Believe there are some nice pieces of color at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam also?

My former X was into art & we went to some places in Oslo,
among them the Munch Museum, also amazing.

A side note to that Elmo, I love Don McLeans song "Vincent" as well all know it is about Van Gogh and the painting.

Maybe they would trade Lukester for the Mona Lisa?

The Vatican in Rome is even more impressive than Louvre,
makes one speechless.
But there's a certain building in India which surpasses everything.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-03-14 03:18 by Erik_Snow.

I almost got creushed by a hord of Japanese tourists once in there;
all on the go for ool' Mona L. "click" "click" "click" "click"
"click" "click" "click" "click""click" "click" "click" "click" and off they went...

Munch's "The Scream" was here for an exhibit during the 1996 Olympics.

Yeah, the song "Vincent" - Starry, starry night .....

Re: Mona Lotta

An old joke - What's the difference between and enzyme and a hormone?

You can't hear an enzyme!



Damn, I've hijacked my own thread!

Well *yawn* past 2,00 here, must up at 6,30...
Guess I gotta hit the snowpile... See ya, Elmo! Io)

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> I almost got creushed by a hord of Japanese
> tourists once in there;
> all on the go for ool' Mona L. "click" "click"
> "click" "click"
> "click" "click" "click" "click""click" "click"
> "click" "click" and off they went...


They have even done that to me, outside of my home when I was a kid, lol

Visiting the Vatican would be an art lover's fantasy (among other important things)!

The Taj looks impressive in pictures, probably much more so in real life.

In other news, Taj Mahal is a pretty nifty bluesman!

G'night, Bro. Keep me posted about your visit.

SK

Same group - who knows..
Once such group lifted up my oldest son (today 14)
and treated him like some kind of animal...
Man if I had had a good bazooka that day.... :-Q

what....trade Lukester for the Mona Lisa?....sheeeit, what's her batting average? can she play the outfield?

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> The Taj looks impressive in pictures, probably
> much more so in real life.

There's a backside about seeing it in real life,
you'll see some very different on your way to the Taj Mahal, extreme hunger and poverty, before passing the gates to that unbelievable luxurious building,
it can make one feel pretty bad about how things have been run there...to put it mildly, and also one can feel quite silly for being a tourist who's there just for ones own pleasure...when people are dying around you.

I spent a semester in Paris and as a student was able to receive a free pass to the Louvre which was great. I could go for just a few hours a day and not get overwhelmed. In a whole semester I still didn't see verything there. I read somewhere that to see and "apreciate" all the art in the Louvre it would take you a couple of years, or something like that. I think that was giving 2 minutes to each piece or something.
Incedentally, the only think I have bought "at" the Louvre was the A Bigger Bang album in the Virgin mega store in the loby area. I hope that doesn't make it ancient art!

Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> Elmo Lewis Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > The Taj looks impressive in pictures, probably
> > much more so in real life.
>
> There's a backside about seeing it in real life,
> you'll see some very different on your way to the
> Taj Mahal, extreme hunger and poverty, before
> passing the gates to that unbelievable luxurious
> building,
> it can make one feel pretty bad about how things
> have been run there...to put it mildly, and also
> one can feel quite silly for being a tourist who's
> there just for ones own pleasure...when people are
> dying around you.


whoa Erik....that is so insightful.....very perceptive my whale munching friend.....it seems you and I have trod some of the same earth....I visited the Taj Mahal as a child....and I remember the horrid poverty

Whale munching friend..hehe
Must have been quite a sight you had in India in the...70s (?)

This could be interesting, While peeking at the Sabres game in Pittsburg, I'm helping my daughter finish a report on Hypatia and working on this fresh box of vanilla ice cream.

Meanwhile thinking about where the sarcophagus of Mary Magdeline is buried under the Louvre. Hmm..

Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> Whale munching friend..hehe
> Must have been quite a sight you had in India in
> the...70s (?)

thanks erik, but it was in 1963-1964....we lived in India those years

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> An old joke - What's the difference between and
> enzyme and a hormone?
>
> You can't hear an enzyme!
>
>
>
> Damn, I've hijacked my own thread!

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I've done that before too Elmo.lol...........I can't resist this one after your enzyme joke.........How do you make a hormone? Don't pay her........Ba dooop boop.

Eager to see the Louvre art at the High Museum in Atlanta, one of my favorite museums in America. This new relationship France and Atlanta have is quite exciting. Also France has been very generous and supportive to the great New Orleans museum.

I'm passionate about art and have spent much time in European and UK museums.

Also a fan of Howard Finster.

An all time favourite...It's sheer power never fails to stun the mind...



Judith Beheading Holofernes - Caravaggio circa 1598



ROCKMAN

cali stones fan Wrote:
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I spent a semester in Paris and as a student was able to receive a free pass to the Louvre which was great.

Awesome - I did that too. Did you do the Sorbonne's program for l'etranger up by Le Pantheon? That's where I went, it was great.

Anyway if you ever get there again, the Louvre used to be free the first Monday of every month.

As a guy with ties to both Japan and the US, there are two things that embarrass me when I visit the Louvre. Japanese tourists with their cameras (or cell phones, as the case may be these days) and American families with their "The Da Vinci Code Guide to Europe" books.

CindyC Wrote:
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> cali stones fan Wrote:
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> I spent a semester in Paris and as a student was
> able to receive a free pass to the Louvre which
> was great.
>
> Awesome - I did that too. Did you do the
> Sorbonne's program for l'etranger up by Le
> Pantheon? That's where I went, it was great.
>
> Anyway if you ever get there again, the Louvre
> used to be free the first Monday of every month.

I went with a program through an American university called Sweet Briar, a whole buch of colleges and universities go through this program. My semester there were 101 students, and most of them were the only ones from their home schools.

I went back for a 3 week class this January and found that if you are under 26 you can get in Friday nights, after 6, for free. It is reduced fare for everyone Friday and Wednesday nights (those are the only nights it is open) and free for everyone the first Sunday of the month.

This is my favorite paiting in the Louvre:


Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon Ier et couronnement de l'impératrice Joséphine dans la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, le 2 décembre 1804
(Coronation of Emperor Napoleon 1st, et of Eperesse Josephine in Notre Dame of Paris Cathedral, December 2nd 1804)
Jacques-Louis DAVID

The real one is huge and the detail is amazing. The velvet in the cloaks looks like it is real velvet.

And this is my favorite statue:


l'empereur Claude
(Emperor Claude)
artist unknown