Another visit.
"tudy of, The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse), héodore Géricault
I randomly had The Pogues, "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" loaded up on the iPod, so most of the second part of this very, very long study was done listening to it. I guess I get a weird delight out of that.
I've stopped taking too many pictures. Sometimes, you take pictures and forget to look. You see this all over the place at the Louvre. People taking walk-throughs with camcorders, without actually experiencing the place. I find this spectacle really interesting, since the Louvre is incredibly large and also, in certain places - incredibly boring. I'm trying to figure out the time and place all this footage is going to be reviewed and I'm failing at anything less than total apocalypse.
I guess this visit, I was more interested in seeing some of my favorite paintings from the collection and finding some of the more hidden drawing rooms. I was pleasantly surprised. There's something about the nakedness of drawings I really enjoy. Oil painting is another interesting spectacle, but doing it enough myself in the past, you actually get this idea that if you want to be a hack oil painter - you could. It's a very flexible medium and if you screw up - it's not the end of the world. There's actually some pretty shitty paintings in the Louvre, paintings without much inspiration and no real interest in creating a dynamic composition. A little sad I couldn't, for the life of me, find the Hall of Rubens, but that's life and I guess that's what it's like wandering aimlessly in that museum.
Study of, "ercule combattant Achéloüs métamorphosé en serpent (Hercules fighting Acheloos trensfomed into a snake)" Bronze, cast by Carbonneaux, 1824
This turn out like crap. The Raft of the Medusa killed me. I noticed a few figured I had never, ever seen before. I guess that's what happens when you stare at something for so long.
At the Rodin Muesum,
Study of, "la voix interieure vers 1899", Rodin
Study of, "Torse de jeune femme cambree grand modél 1909", Rodin
I had a professor in school that was very much into Rodin. He was a great inspiration and I really dug his art and his character. I failed the class pretty brutally. I just couldn't... get up in the morning.
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