I went in to the NSW Art Gallery yesterday to the exhibit of Monet and the Impressionists. I had been wanting to see it ever since it opened and finally made it on the weekend it closes. It was 39.2 degrees Celsius and about 57% humidity when I left, so getting there was no fun, but it was just fabulous, and wonderfully cold, when I did get there. It’s amazing to stand there in front of paintings you’ve looked at it books for years and see the strokes the living artist made. And you can appreciate the master that Monet was at capturing the light, particularly in two paintings side by side of the Valley of the Petite Creuse, painted at different times of the day. And the way he made the Haystack at Sunset glow with the afternoon sun is really something. So I really enjoyed that. I was going to stay in a meet some people for the Symphony in the Domain, but the Art Gallery shut at 5pm and I was too jolly hot to kill three hours outside in the city so I came home.
The impressionists and the impressionable
I went in to the NSW Art Gallery yesterday to the exhibit of Monet and the Impressionists. I had been wanting to see it ever since it opened and finally made it on the weekend it closes. It was 39.2 degrees Celsius and about 57% humidity when I left, so getting there was no fun, but it was just fabulous, and wonderfully cold, when I did get there. It’s amazing to stand there in front of paintings you’ve looked at it books for years and see the strokes the living artist made. And you can appreciate the master that Monet was at capturing the light, particularly in two paintings side by side of the Valley of the Petite Creuse, painted at different times of the day. And the way he made the Haystack at Sunset glow with the afternoon sun is really something. So I really enjoyed that. I was going to stay in a meet some people for the Symphony in the Domain, but the Art Gallery shut at 5pm and I was too jolly hot to kill three hours outside in the city so I came home.