Orsay Day

At the risk of offending someone's artistic sensibilities, I took pictures of some of my favorites at the Musee d'Orsay:
(I've also put to use my amateur deconstruction and analysis skills to make the art banal for everyone else. Enjoy!)

Degas Etude de Mains

Something about this is very hypnotic. I like that Degas signed his name in the middle of the canvas in red at the center of a red flower because of how little attention it draws aside these magnetic hands.

Chamberlain Lipstick Canteen

I rarely appreciate it when artists pay tribute to really great artists, but the fact that this is sculpture emulating painting, scrap car metal emulating a plant, I have to give credit for the vision.

Renoir La Liseuse Verte

It's less apparent in the picture, but I like how her back is facing him and her outline and details are blurred and inexact; her back is to him and it really feels as if he doesn't know her or can't or won't be allowed to. The picture next to it (also his) is of the bust of a young woman (who happens to be busted) and in the face it's measured and like porcelain and much clearer. I like that these two are next to each other.

Manet

Tee Heeeeeeeeeeeee!

Note: In the next room, there was Courbet's painting which should have been titled Big Hairy Floppy Vagina. I felt like a perv hanging around to take a picture of it to suit my own childish sense of humor.

Monet Coquelicots

Red: youth, flowers, and curiosity. Blue: maternal, propriety (umbrella), and the firmament.

Degas

Much better in person than above the nightstands of half of Murray Hill.

Manet L'evasion De Rocheford

Good Will Hunting almost ruined this painting for me. Almost.

Van Gogh

When I saw this in 2004, there was a Van Gogh look-a-like taking pictures beside it with some Japanese tourists. Perhaps the look-a-like killed himself too.

Cezanne Achielle Emperaire

Oddly, the first three words that came to mind: George Walker Bush