Museums

Fine Art Friday: Guess the Artist, Part 2

3 February 2012
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Last week for Fine Art Friday, I shared my love of details within a master’s painting and a little art history game we play to test our visual memory and knowledge of an artist’s touch. I shared close-ups of seven different paintings each on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris* and asked you to [...]

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Fine Art Friday: Guess the Artist, Part 1

27 January 2012
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In Art History, we were required to know the artist just by the style of the painting. While most of us can tell a Monet by his voluminous brush strokes and cool color palette, some artists can be quite difficult to differentiate. Take Braque and Picasso for example. The two painted side by side in [...]

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Paris entertainment at your fingertips

14 October 2011
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It’s nothing new that Paris has a plethora of artistic and cultural establishments. Keeping up with the gallery openings (or vernissages), museum expositions, the latest at the opera houses, theaters and even the cinema is a full time job in and of itself! Take into account the entrance fees and cost of tickets, your entertainment [...]

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Fine Art Friday: Musée du Quai Branly

9 September 2011
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It was a lovely Saturday morning last weekend and I was craving a visit to a museum… I know, it’s predictable, right? Having already lived in Paris as an art lover, I made sure I explored as many museums in the city as possible. But it dawned on me that somehow the Musée du Quai [...]

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Le Musée de l’Annonciade

5 July 2011
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If there is one thing I love about traveling, it’s discovering the local artwork in the area.  St Tropez has an exceptional artistic heritage and the tradition continues as painters set up their aisles along the old harbor. But the best lesson in the art of St Tropez comes from a quick visit to the [...]

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Le Grand Voyage: Normandy

11 May 2011
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Hit the road from Paris! What a wonderful drive through areas of France I never imagined I’d visit. Final destination for this leg of Le Grand Voyage was our little hotel in Pontorson – a good starting point for exploring Mont St. Michel, as well as areas of Normandy and Brittany (Bretagne from here on [...]

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Le Grand Voyage: Nancy

23 April 2011
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And so Le Grand Voyage begins. After a few days in Zurich, I repacked up my things, hopped from train to train and within only a few short hours happily arrived in the capital of the Lorraine department of France View Larger Map Prior to my visit, I only knew one simple thing about Nancy [...]

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Fine Art Friday: In the Absence of Straight Line

22 April 2011
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Before heading to Paris, I decided to spend some time exploring Nancy. As capital of Lorraine, a strategically located province of France whose territory has been inhabited as far back as the Neolithic, Nancy is brimming with enough history and significant works of art to be coined the Capital of the East of France. This [...]

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