L'Orangerie -Paris
canth...@webtv.net
Will the restoration be completed, and the museum re-opened by
September?
Nina
didier Meurgues
canth...@webtv.net wrote:
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> Will the restoration be completed, and the museum re-opened by
> September?
It's closed until end 2003.
didier meurgues
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> Nina
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Megan Grenenger
"didier Meurgues" <meur...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3476-3A7...@storefull-174.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
> canth...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > Will the restoration be completed, and the museum re-opened by
> > September?
>
> It's closed until end 2003.
>
> didier meurgues
Double checking - the L'Orangerie museum - of Monet's lillies fame -
is closed until the end of 2003???
I'm devastated :( It was a must-see for my May 2001 trip...
Megan
Eric / Karen
L'Orangerie. We're going in May and I'll have to make do with the Marmottan
and the Musee d'Orsay for Monets. Europe has been there a long time, and
it's not going anywhere. There'll be a newly renovated museum waiting for
you. You already have a reason to go back :)
Karen
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Mike O'Sullivan
Marmottan and the Musee d'Orsay are much more deserving of your time.
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Bob Vandiver
> Musee
> Marmottan and the Musee d'Orsay are much more deserving of your time.
I visited the Orangerie as well as the Musee d'Orsay. At the Orangerie
it became quite clear to me that sometimes Monet was painting flowers...
but most of the time the subject was something else.
To hit it over the head, those flowers were metaphors. I would say more
about this but I might deprive some future visitor of a great discovery.
Bob
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canth...@webtv.net
Orangerie does not compare in size or content to the other two, it is
still worth a visit if you are nearby. I have not been there in years,
and wanted my husband to see it, that is why I asked if it had reopened.
It is a nice museum to visit if you are 'museumed out' and just want to
wander around in a smaller area enjoying the collection in peace.
IMHO the Marmotton is a MUST SEE.
Nina
Mike O'Sullivan
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Phrank Da Slugger
canth...@webtv.net wrote:
> I have visited the Orangerie, Marmotton and d'Orsay. Although the
> Orangerie does not compare in size or content to the other two, it is
> still worth a visit if you are nearby. I have not been there in years,
> and wanted my husband to see it, that is why I asked if it had reopened.
Not to make you feel bad... ;) but we were able to see the Nympheas just
before it shut down. Absolutely a must-see! Sorry you won;t be to visit
this year, you'll simply have to return to Paris in 2003 and see them
then.
>
> IMHO the Marmotton is a MUST SEE.
Concur 100% :)
canth...@webtv.net
return to Paris in 2003 to see them."
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I've seen them already, but just in case they have changed... I'll
_force_ myself to return to Paris ;-)
Nina
Mike O'Sullivan
my opinion the emphasis on Monet risks other artists of the Impressionist
period being overlooked. I have a particular fondness for Manet for example.
"didier Meurgues" <meur...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <981363872.29359.4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
> "Mike O'Sullivan" <mi...@barnaby0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Ther is a hauntingly wonderful Francis Bacon which must not be missed.
> >
> I agree with your first post. It's a relatively small museum. The
> Nympheas has become a part of the "tour" for people interested in the
> art of this period, like the Klimt Beethoven frieze in Vienna Secession
> pavilion or the Whistler Peacock room of the Smithsonian. IMO the
> Nympheas state of preservation has not been helped by the absence of
> varnish and seems a little sad sometimes. That's rather impressing but
> personaly I prefer the more precise tuch of his earlier works,
> including the smaller Nympheas of his 1900(?) personal exhibition. Even
> Monet was unsatisfied because he had become nearly blind then and I
> think Clemenceau was obliged to friendly force him to respect the
> clauses of his donation. I suppose that's why they decided to restore
> the natural lighting to try to bring back the original effect. The
> Orangerie building will be restored to its original greenhouse form.
> The oval Nympheas rooms will be surelevated with contemporaneous
> conique structures opening on the reinstalled glass roof in order to
> allow light to come in again. The renovation will add underground rooms
> digged under the Tuileries gardens South terrasse for the Walter
> Guillaume collection (Picasso, Braque, Derain, Soutine notably).
>
> If you like Bacon, as I do, you can find too a special room in the MNAM
> (Beaubourg) with a triptyque, an autoportrait, a landscape and 3
> portraits of the Michel Leiris family.
>
> Those interested in Soutine can find them sparkled in different places
> in Paris : in the MNAM, the jewish museum, the Orangerie (when reopen),
> finaly during the actual exhibition "L'Ecole de Paris" (about 10) at
> the museum of modern art of the city of Paris and in its permanent
> collection.
>
> didier Meurgues
>
> > <canth...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> > news:5684-3A7...@storefull-178.iap.bryant.webtv.net...
> > >
> > > IMHO the Marmotton is a MUST SEE.
> > >
> > > Nina
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
didier Meurgues
"Mike O'Sullivan" <mi...@barnaby0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Interesting post. I don't like referring to an artist as over-rated,
but in
> my opinion the emphasis on Monet risks other artists of the
Impressionist
> period being overlooked. I have a particular fondness for Manet for
example.
I'm not a specialist but personaly I prefer too the technical skills
and constance in quality of earlier artists like Manet, as well as
Degas or lautrec, to the less conformist and less equal production of
artists like Renoir, Monet and even Van Gogh, even if that could be due
for those ones to their own personal problems or their artistic
research which has more in common with the modern movement IMO. (Excuse
my english....). Nevertheless, I like too the main paintings of Van
Gogh and Renoir and concerning Monet his earlier various series or
winter paintings like the Orsay "magpie" and some Nympheas. Sometimes
I'm wondering if the state of national collections doesn't play a role
in the preferences. I suppose for ex. that the "Dejeuner des canotiers"
of the Philips(?) collection in Washington plays a role in the interest
of americans with Renoir. When I saw the large Manet Christ (in Chicago
I think), I told to myself what a pity he didn't enjoy Church or
official decorative "commandes" under the second empire like Delacroix
before him. Apparently they didn't appreciated his pro-republican
"Maximilian's execution" paintings.
Megan Grenenger
a number of the works of art are touring Asia, North America and
Australia. Lucky for me the exhibition stops in Brisbane for 2 months
(starting today) before I leave for Paris so I won't miss out after all!
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/2001/renoirtopicasso/index.html
Perhaps others will be lucky enough to find the exhibition will visit a
museum/art gallery near them?
(The description in another related post of how Orangerie will
appear after the renovations IS reason enough to return to see the
art in its preferred setting...)
Megan
"Phrank Da Slugger" <NO_F'IN_SPAM...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Chris Kuan
>I've just found out that while the Orangerie is closed for renovations,
>a number of the works of art are touring Asia, North America and
>Australia. Lucky for me the exhibition stops in Brisbane for 2 months
>(starting today) before I leave for Paris so I won't miss out after all!
>http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/2001/renoirtopicasso/index.html
>Perhaps others will be lucky enough to find the exhibition will visit a
>museum/art gallery near them?
Yair, saw a bit on the news last night in the "dead donkey" slot. The mum of my
brother's housemate is a volunteer at the AGNSW, and had heard it would be coming
to Sydney as well, so we are waiting until June...
--
Chris Kuan, CSC (Australia)
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