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I'm happy to report that Adam got his map finished and the painting is now done. The new drains in the back yard are also in so another home improvement project can be crossed off the list but I've still got to replace some broken window screens.
Very much back into my normal routine now and actually a little ahead of schedule somehow for this months commitments so yesterday I took the day off and Stephanie and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to see the exhibition Cezanne & Pissarro, Pioneering Modern Painting.
The exhibition was wonderful. I love the impressionists and have seen many of Cezannes and Pissarro's paintings in books that I really admired but it's not the same as seeing them in person where you can really appreciate the small details and the brush strokes. One of the things I liked best about the exhibit was the way it was organized.
Their works were arranged chronologically through the galleries which made it much easier to appreciate how their work evolved and changed throughout the years they were painting. They very often worked side by side each painting the same landscape and those were displayed side by side so you could really compare the two techniques.
Personally I think they are both brilliant but I prefer Cezannes later work from the 1880's and 90's to his earlier work. The broad strokes and almost geometric shapes of some of his early landscapes don't quite have the same visual appeal to me although they are gorgeous.
After seeing the exhibition we spent about an hour and a half wandering through a few of the other galleries. Any time I'm at LACMA I have to pay a visit to the Rodin collection they have. I love sculpture and Rodin is a favorite of mine.
Finished Deborah Crombie's IN A DARK HOUSE, it was every bit as good as I expected, a really excellent and suspenceful mystery. Started the historical novel POPE JOAN and am about half way through the third Star Trek: Titan novel ORION's HOUNDS which is excellent thus far. That review isn't due until next week so I can savor it a bit and not rush through reading it
Very much back into my normal routine now and actually a little ahead of schedule somehow for this months commitments so yesterday I took the day off and Stephanie and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to see the exhibition Cezanne & Pissarro, Pioneering Modern Painting.
The exhibition was wonderful. I love the impressionists and have seen many of Cezannes and Pissarro's paintings in books that I really admired but it's not the same as seeing them in person where you can really appreciate the small details and the brush strokes. One of the things I liked best about the exhibit was the way it was organized.
Their works were arranged chronologically through the galleries which made it much easier to appreciate how their work evolved and changed throughout the years they were painting. They very often worked side by side each painting the same landscape and those were displayed side by side so you could really compare the two techniques.
Personally I think they are both brilliant but I prefer Cezannes later work from the 1880's and 90's to his earlier work. The broad strokes and almost geometric shapes of some of his early landscapes don't quite have the same visual appeal to me although they are gorgeous.
After seeing the exhibition we spent about an hour and a half wandering through a few of the other galleries. Any time I'm at LACMA I have to pay a visit to the Rodin collection they have. I love sculpture and Rodin is a favorite of mine.
Finished Deborah Crombie's IN A DARK HOUSE, it was every bit as good as I expected, a really excellent and suspenceful mystery. Started the historical novel POPE JOAN and am about half way through the third Star Trek: Titan novel ORION's HOUNDS which is excellent thus far. That review isn't due until next week so I can savor it a bit and not rush through reading it
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10:00 AM
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I am glad Adam got his map done.
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Ann and Shawn, at 9:14 PM
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