It was pretty special to be able to see this collection as it never usually leaves Paris, but it came to Canberra, and I saw it.
The artists included Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cezanne, Degas, Monet and Serusier. I was interested to go and see them, but I was not expecting to be as blown away as It was great to see these famous paintings, many of which you would recognise from pictures in books etc. This was because seeing the paintings in real life is so much better than seeing a photograph in a book. The colours are so much more alive and you really get so much more of a sense of depth and illusion of light with the real thing. I had so much more of an appreciation of the talent and genius involved in these paintings after seeing them for real which I didn't have before.
A good example of this is Van Gogh's bedroom painting. The real one has such a better perspective of depth that just doesn't come across in a little photo.
I also really liked Albert Besnard's portrait of Madame Roger Jordain for the way the illusion was achieved in making the fabric of the dress look shimmery and three dimensional. Again not an effect you see in the photo, but if you stood back and looked at this painting from a distance the effect was really extraordinary.
See it by clicking here.
I think my favourite painting of the day was Beach at Heist by Georges Lemmen. Again, a little unimpressive in the photo, especially because the colours don't reproduce very well. But this is an example of pointillism, used by many artists painting with little dots and creating new colours by the combinations of dots rather than mixing the colours on a palette. It was fascinating looking form a distance to see the finished product and then looking really close to see how they had created the image with a series of different coloured dots working together.
Click here to see it.
Canberra is about 3 1/2 hours drive from Sydney, so we spent most of the day in the car and only about 2 hours in Canberra. It was good.
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