Orsay Museum Pics!!! w00t!

[bicentennial_baby]

OMG, this museum is sooooo much better then the Louvre, seriously!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hjb2429/album?.dir=7cd2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

Enjoy!! :D

[xchrom]

1. i love both museums

they're different -- which i appreciate.

the orsay is more evocative of the time span it looks at.

the louvre is just too big to be evocative -- but it's collection is simply awesome, mind boggling even.

[nine23]

2. Nice pics...

I've never actually heard it referred to as "Orsay"; I thought perhaps you were speaking of another museum. I've always referred to it as Musée d'Orsay (I speak French), though I suppose in English that would be technically correct indeed.

No biggie. Hope you had a good good time...I just got back from four months there myself. (We have a place in Pau, in the Pyrenees on the French/Spanish border)

One question: Isn't Paris a little quiet right now? (which can be good). It's vacation time; even my partner's entire family is over here right now....

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Well, what's the difference really

I could say Musee d'Orsay, which we know is Museum of Orsay or Orsay Museum...talk about splitting hairs...jeez :eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

3. My parents don't lie!

They said the same thing. Thanks for the pics! :D

[bicentennial_baby]

7. It was your post about it that made me go!

I remembered that you had said that, so I went! :D

[GOPisEvil]

8. Oooh...I'll have to tell my folks that!

I'm glad you liked it! :D

Edit - can't type

[lildreamer316]

4. Beautiful!

I'm so jealous. I am *STILL* stuck in this backward-ass southern redneck christian conservative state. Ak. Someday......
I'm a huge impressionist fan; thanks!

[seemunkee]

5. Worth a trip to Paris in itself

I got up early one day and went without my family because they had a special Bugatti exhibit. The beauty of some of those paintings is nearly enough to make you cry.

[progmom]

9. sigh.....

now i am really really really jealous. :cry:

[bicentennial_baby]

10. awwwww....i'm sorry

:hug: if it makes you feel any better, i am incredibly bored here at this point, and can't leave until Thursday...grrrr :mad:

:loveya:

[progmom]

12. have you been to the Picasso museum?

I thought it was really cool. :)

[bicentennial_baby]

13. yep..i've been pretty much everywhere

well, everywhere that i'd want to go...boredom is my domain for the next 49 hours, until I board my plane...I'm not a city person, and it's hot here, and i'm just sooooooo done with Paris for the time being. x(

[ProfessorGAC]

11. I Think So Too

I'm not very interested in Renaissance art. It's faux realism and starts to all look the same. I did like the statuary at the Louvre, but i thought Orsay was by far the more interesting museum.

Glad you had a good trip.
The Professor

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Oh wow. Beautiful.

I knew the Musee d'Orsay was fabulous, because when it was undergoing some renovations a couple or 3 years ago, about 40 of the Impressionist works came to Fort Worth and lived in the Kimball Museum for several months. I just drooled over them.

I love Impressionists.

Lucky you. Did you go to Versailles? Is there a day trip to a chateau you could take?

[gardenista]

15. I love it, and can't wait to see it in September!

I love your reports, too, you are getting me primed for my too-short visits- one day in August, 3 days in September.