#Musee Dorsay

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Paris February 2024

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Interior of the Gare d'Orléans Railway Station of Paris, modern-day Musée d'Orsay

French vintage postcard

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Van Gogh

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After visiting the Louvre and Musée de l'Orangerie (see previous posts), I was able to round off my day's tour of Parisian galleries by visiting the Musée d'Orsay thanks to it being opening late, until 9:45pm, on Thursday evenings. Housed in a former Beaux-Arts train station built between 1898 and 1900, the Musée d'Orsay is an architectural masterpiece. Most importantly, it boasts a magnificent selection of paintings by my favourite artist, Monet. I was ecstatic beyond belief to get to see, for the first time ever, my second-favourite Monet - after his 'Water Lily Pond' - which is 'The Poppy Fields near Argenteuil'. (Contrary to what some visitors to my homes over the last 25 years have believed, the one I have on my wall is a £50 print, not the original at Musée d'Orsay which I reckon would be a bargain at even £500 million.) After having taken a thousand photos through the day at the three art galleries, I had 0% battery left on my phone and was relieved I managed to get someone to take a few pictures of me next to 'The Poppy Fields' before my phone died seconds later! See the world premiere of those 'The Monet Shot' (2023) pictures among the videos and photos below. . . . #musée #museedorsay #muséedorsay #dorsay #parisienne #orsay #parisvibes #musee #d'orsay #dorsay #paris #monetpoppyfields #museeorsay #francemuseum #photography #monetpoppy #museedorsay #orsaygallery #poppyart #museeparis #dorsaygallery #peinture #sculpture #wanderlust #monetphoto #monetpainting #parisjetaime #poppyfieldspainting (at Musée d'Orsay) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2VKyKNajt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Because of my delayed flight I barely had time to visit the Musee dorsay before it closed (open til 930 on Thursdays cuz God loves me) so I went straight there from the flight and didn't eat and it was really warm in one of the exhibits so I was drenched in sweat, a bit woozy from hunger and exhaustion, gaping at masterpices

[theiloveyousong]

ive been to the van gogh exhibit in the musee dorsay its very cool

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Hyperion, Dan Simmons

Priest’s Tale. Actually an epistolary narrative concerning a different priest. Catholic but a Jesuit archaeologist who’s main theological precursor is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (coincidentally someone I have read recently owing the nearby bookshop’s sometimes esoteric offering in it’s religion section). Actually an atheist and a scientist. Representative of the most common epistemological position of classic sf. Has an encounter that overturns this system of knowledge, confirms his faith in a living God, and spurs his faith in the necessary mortality of both himself and his Church. Read alongside: James Blish, A Case of Conscience

Soldier’s Tale. Limited 3rd person narration. We’re following one individual but at an emotional distance. We see the economic and political conditions necessary for the re-emergence of a noble warrior caste and limited warfare, something common in military sf, and then the changes which lead to it’s fall and the return of 20th century total war and terror and all the nastiness military sf skipped over. Kassad’s love for Moneta is the courtly romantic love that removes him from his fellow man and encourages his growth both as a knight of the FORCE and later as a butcher of men. Theological question: If a man utilises orbiting x-rays to take out a heretical Shi’a prophet, but then essentially pretends to direct Allah’s anger to prompt the remaining colonists into peaceful submission, is he at fault from a Sunni perspective? Little ‘The door dilated’ reference to Heinlein. Read alongside: Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (and/or Space Cadet and/or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress), Gordon Dickson, Dorsai series (even though I’ve only read Soldier, Ask Not which has an unusual protagonist and narrative for the series), Harry Harrison, Bill, the Galactic Hero

The Poet’s Tale. 1st person past-tense narration. Much discussion of the craft of writing. A lot to disagree with, particularly the notion that you’re using language as a degenerated tool to try and convey with clarity a pre-linguistic experience. Whether there are non-linguistic experiences or not, we are getting at them only through language, and a writer can hardly wield language with such craft and then claim it is a transparent medium. Contrary and excellent bit about the influence of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and General Semantics on sf when an accident that reduces his speech capabilities and leaves him in drudge labour also reduces his experience of life to a tight cycle; and he only escapes through expanding his language use and the conceptual space he inhabits. The Shrike, in it’s appearance as Muse, echoing the Soldier’s courtly love. Does a prophecy create the future it predicts? Read alongside: Choose your favourite Samuel Delany, A. E. van Vogt’s Null-A series, any William Burroughs.

The Scholar’s Tale. Limited 3rd person narration. The relative normality of Sol’s life provides good background on the day-to-day existence of the Hegemony. The mysteries of the Time Tombs get some exploration here. Theological concern: You are a Jew and Israel (and the whole Earth) is long, long gone and dead. The exile is forever. The Messiah h’aint coming. You’re having dreams in which a disembodied voice commands you to repeat Abraham and sacrifice your only living child; who is herself ageing backwards owing to contact with the Shrike. You are an agnostic scholar of ethics. What do?

The Detective’s Tale. 1st person past-tense narration. Neo-noir and cyberpunk plot starting in a run-down slum sector of some heavy g industrial world. Nice nod to Asimov’s Robot Detective novels both in that this is about a cynical human detective learning to trust a robot, and in the aside about residents of such planets usually developing agoraphobia. The cybrid (a manufactured human body piloted by an AI that is actually present in the Cloud) is a recreation of Keats. Contrary to the personality crises and shoddy cartesian assumptions of some cyberpunk, he is adamant that he is not the same person as the real Keats, and clears up the detective’s assumptions about AI: While they may appear to be disembodied ghosts inhabiting another plane, temporarily possessing manufactured bodies, that plane is a very much real and material computer network. Using both noir and cyberpunk’s penchant for consipracy to uncover the political situation between the Human Hegemony, the Ousters, and the AI Core. As Keats plans to escape the AI Core to a section of space with extremely limited access to the network, he must inhabit this manufactured body. Ending on an AI Word becoming Flesh in order to cause an immaculate conception in the detective for the onset of a future human/AI Messiah. Edit: Almost forgot, but I like the part where the hacker character has aged out of his youthful subculture and taken a sensible job as a public sector data analyst, only to realise his own betrayal and throw in for one last stupid hack when given the opportunity.

We skipped over the Templar. He vanishes in an actual closed-room mystery but the investigation turns up some possible characteristics. A story told without the narrator’s presence.

The Consul’s Tale. Initially 1st person present-tense account of a love affair with two time structures running side-by-side that is revealed to concern an event occurring decades prior to another person. Followed by a confessional. Interrogation of the colonial ambitions underlying various Galactic Federations in print sf.

In all instances, a story dealing with the various ways of writing an sf text, encapsulating an age and pronouncing its death. The sense of approaching apocalypse is palpable, with the Shrike as its avatar. Extremely good stuff and I am tempted to read the sequel as it depicts that Fall of an era, but I can’t see how or why you would speculate in a positive sense beyond that negation. It seems the author didn’t, as Endymion still gives us a narrative of the downfall of a particular age and state, but it swaps out the secular Hegemony for the Catholic Church in space.

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@museeorsay Reconstituer la première exposition de ce courant artistique qui portera, plus tard, le nom d’#impressionnisme  est une belle initiative pour cette année ❤️ #celebration #expoimpressionnisme #visite #visit #150emeanniversaire #expos

#exposition #presentation👇 https://vagabondageautourdesoi.com/2024/05/13/inventer-limpressionnisme-celebration-150eme-anniversaire-musee-dorsay-2024/

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Photo by Felix Thiollier. French. 1842-1914.

“His father, Claude Auguste, was a ribbon maker. In 1857, he started a ribbon company in Saint Étienne. At age 37 he retired and pursued his interests in art, archeology and photography.” -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Thiollier

Exhibition: ‘Félix Thiollier (1842-1914), photographs’ at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris -

https://artblart.com/2014/02/28/exhibition-felix-thiollier-1842-1914-photographs-at-the-musee-dorsay-paris/

Author. Elizabth Camden.

"I love everything about this picture, including the story behind it! The dramatic composition of the horse, the woman’s fabulous coat, and blowing snow is somehow hypnotic to me.

The photographer was Felix Thiollier, a wealthy French industrialist who made his fortune early in life, then quit and moved to the countryside to pursue his love of photography. His favorite subjects were the French woodlands and what he believed to be the disappearing way of traditional way of life.

The woman in this 1899 photo was his daughter, who moved into the country with him, and often appeared as a subject in his photographs".

> Steve Gallagher > Public Domain Photos and Images

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Pierre Bonnard

"Le chat blanc" 1894

Oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Gare d'Orléans Railway Station of Paris, modern-day Musée d'Orsay

French vintage postcard

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge | June | Introduce Yourself

Hi, I'm [Jamie]!

I have been a bookseller at two bookstores on Brisbane’s Southside for the past six years. Since the closure of one store in April, I am currently exploring new opportunities. Last year I made the exciting decision to pursue a lifelong goal of becoming a librarian/ working in the GLAMR industry, and I'm currently studying my Diploma of Library and Information Services. I've been blogging since February 2013 and am slowly returning to my regular posting schedule after a few quieter years on the blog. Reading, writing and sharing my love of books and knowledge is a huge passion of mine. If anyone ever needs a book recommendation, please let me know!

Art and design will always be in my life as a huge passion and creative outlet. Some of my other hobbies and interests include craft, reading, writing, gaming (D&D, board games, etc.), yoga, running, hiking and being in nature. I love travelling, spending time with my friends and drinking lots of tea.

I have always had a passion for learning and discovering new things. I hope to help and support those around me, no matter what they're going through. Talking about the important things in life, such as mental health, are really important conversations for me to engage in. I aspire to create the changes in myself that I want to see reflected in the world.

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Day 1669: February 17, 2019

Musee d'Orsay

This huge museum was originally an opulent train station on the Left Bank of the Seine in central Paris, built in 1900. Today it is the primary French museum of art created from the mid-19th Century onward, including many of the most prominent works of the Impressionist movement. One of the largest art museums in Europe, it contains many of the masterpieces of Monet, Cezanne, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and many others.

Quai Anatole France & Rue de la Legion d'Honneur, Paris, France

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Musee d'Orsay Ballroom, Paris - Signed Print

All prints are hand made by Freddie in London, using only the best printing materials with Metro Imaging of Farringdon.

My open edition prints are individually printed using archival inks on museum quality Hahnemuele photo rag 308gsm paper. Each print is signed in the white space below the image.

Prints available at freddieardley.com/buyprints

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Le Louvre & Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France