[LRoggy]

True story:

In the early 90’s I was working in London and decided to spend a weekend in Paris. The Musee D’Orsay had just opened and I went on in.

Picked up the brochure at the front and didn’t note anything really of importance and started to walk around.

Turned the corner and staring back at me from the wall was this painting.

The French couldn’t bother to put the painting in the brochure!

Some things never change . . .

[cicero2k]

Musee D’Orsay

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Probably my favorite museum ever.

Lately, if the museum allows non-flash photography, I take a photo with my SLR, project the image on a large computer monitor at home. It is much more enjoyable. The lighting in the museum is too low, there’s crowds and I can color correct painting on the desktop.

End up with a better image than witnessed in person.

[Daffynition]

In its time, *Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1*, was considered one of the most famous works by an American artist outside the United States. For some, it still is.

Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream

....all darlings of photoshoppers!

I would much rather view this icon in the natural beauty of the Berkshires, than the chaos of Paris.