Le Louvre

Today I spent a nice rainy day at Le Louvre. But, after two art museums in two days I'm a little tired of museum-ing it. We started the grand tour with the Egyptian art which was huge. It made me super excited for my Egypt trip. Seeing the artifacts in cases is exciting....what's it going to be like inside a pyramid?!



   We saw some sarcophagi

       A mummy!

     Lots of artifacts

   Then we headed into the famous statues where we saw the Venus de Milo

      and The Winged Victory of Samothrace

The "Mona Lisa" Mona Spleesha. Psh. So many people came to look at this little guy and there were 2 guards and you had to stay feet away! C'est bizarre!

   Le mona lisa effect:

Then we wandered into the dutch painters (who were by far my favorite!). Dad, its your fault that I'm such a picky art liker. And into Rembrandt's room (yes they had a room dedicated to him!)

  Where I saw his self portrait....

which doesn't photograph well :(

                                

a nude I've never seen, but was my favorite!

  "Le Boeuf"

 then I ran into Vermeer's "The Lacemaker"

 and one I loved "The astronomer" by Vermeer as well.

The Louvre is gigantic and I'm glad I get in for free because I can't imagine ever doing it all in one day. We spent at least 4 hours exploring it and (I hate to admit...) skipping through A LOT of art and we still didn't see even half of it!

 I'll be back I'm sure.

D'Orsay

I've come to find after many art museum excursions as of late.....I'm a very very picky art liker. We went to the Musee D'Orsay and it was cool, but I wasn't that impressed. I guess I'm not impressed with impressionism. The museum was undergoing some serious updating so a lot of pieces were missing. Monet's bridge painting was gone, Whistler's Mother was gone, the famous Renior was gone. But I did see lots of Van Gogh (including his self portrait) and Lautrec (who's drawings I actually liked!), and various others.

I liked "Solitude" by Alexander Harrison

"Portrait de Georges Rodenbauch Vers 1895" by Lucien Levy Dhurmer

it was very unusual 

The painting by Huges Merle

And "Dante et Virgile aux enfers" by Adolphe William Bouguereau for obvious reason

Sorry impressionism....you're not for me.