Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You'll find a trove of Monets in Chicago as well. It may well be the >best collection of impressionists in the world. Of course New York's Met >has quite a collection as well. However, one of my favorite museum >experiences was NY's MOMA, which is now temporarily relocated. They have >a relatively small collection of impresionists, but it includes Van >Gogh's "Starry Night." That painting is such a powerful icon that >viewing it in person left me speachless.
One of my favorite art experiences was wandering around a gallery in London (Courtauld?) with some friends and turning around at one point to find myself face to face, so to speak, with Manet's "Bar at the Folies-Bergeres". It's such a famous painting that it's become something of an icon; something that I just never even thought of as actually, well, *existing* in real life, if you know what I mean. To come across it unexpectedly like that just left me stunned for quite a while. But then, that's what art's *supposed* to do to you, isn't it? -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
