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100 DAYS OF PHOTOS DAY 55
Port of Saint-Cast, Paul Signac, France, 1890.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Today is a national holiday in Québec, “La Saint-Jean Baptiste". Since the weather is nice, my sister Claudine and I decide to go to the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec to see an exhibition about the arts of Japan.
There is hardly anyone in the museum, which is fantastic. We first visit an installation created by Diane Morin. The room is in darkness and some parts are with no light at all which is both disturbing and funny.
The Japan exposition is in two different rooms. We visit the first room and I am amazed by the quality of the works one can admire. The Boston Museum has collaborated with the Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. All works are magnificent. It's not every day you can see Gauguin, Van Gogh, Maurice Denis, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Cassatt gathered in one place. There are also Japanese artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and several Japanese-inspired items.
We rest for 15 minutes between the two parts of the exhibition, take a small lunch at the one of the Museum restaurants and visit a small exhibition of Inuit miniature sculptures.
The second room is as beautiful as the first. There are so many incredible creations!
We end the visit with a tour of the permanent exhibitions of Canadian art. Unfortunately, my camera battery has died and I can only take one picture.
100 DAYS OF PHOTOS DAY 55
Port of Saint-Cast, Paul Signac, France, 1890.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Today is a national holiday in Québec, “La Saint-Jean Baptiste". Since the weather is nice, my sister Claudine and I decide to go to the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec to see an exhibition about the arts of Japan.
There is hardly anyone in the museum, which is fantastic. We first visit an installation created by Diane Morin. The room is in darkness and some parts are with no light at all which is both disturbing and funny.
The Japan exposition is in two different rooms. We visit the first room and I am amazed by the quality of the works one can admire. The Boston Museum has collaborated with the Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. All works are magnificent. It's not every day you can see Gauguin, Van Gogh, Maurice Denis, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Cassatt gathered in one place. There are also Japanese artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and several Japanese-inspired items.
We rest for 15 minutes between the two parts of the exhibition, take a small lunch at the one of the Museum restaurants and visit a small exhibition of Inuit miniature sculptures.
The second room is as beautiful as the first. There are so many incredible creations!
We end the visit with a tour of the permanent exhibitions of Canadian art. Unfortunately, my camera battery has died and I can only take one picture.