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The central portion of a metal plaque found at a thrift store.
When I was in the Navy, about age 22, I and a couple of buddies took a train to Paris. From the Louvre, we took a taxi to the Eiffel Tour. The driver would not acknowledge he understood our destination until we said it the French way, Tour Eiffel. Once there, as we walked off we could hear him yelling "Gratuity! Gratuity!" I figured out we hadn't tipped him, so I went back and gave him a five franc note (maybe worth about a dollar).
Week 2 The Eiffel Tower (1206 – 1210) 9/19 - 9/24/2021
ID 1208
Georges Seurat French, 1859-1891
Eiffel Tower 1889
Oil on panel
Seurat painted this view on the new, ultra-modern, highly controversial Eiffel Tower before it was completed in the summer of 1889, prior to the opening of the Universal Exposition. Without its crowning platform, the top of tower dissolves into the sky. In shading his color upward from reds and oranges at the base of the structure to a lighter palette dominated by yellow, Seurat seems to have followed the scheme of iridescent colors with which Gustave Eiffel covered the tower in a paint of his own invention, further irritating detractors who found the new monument a gross expression of industrial power and bad taste.
Seurat sided with those who saw the tower as an exciting symbol of modernity. His small painting projects a strong and solemn impact, larely due to its iconic treatment of the tower. Using the so-called neo-impressionist or pointillist technique that he had pioneered, Seurat bathes the scene in a soft but vivid light created by the optical interaction of small dots of birght color. His viewpoint is low, across a foreground balcony or wall that provides a sturdy base for the composition.
Museum purchase, William H. Noble Bequest Fund,
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1979.48
From the placard: San Francisco Legion of Honor Art Museum
Georges Seurat - Wikipedia
Georges Seurat - 173 artworks - painting (wikiart.org)
Biography of Georges Seurat, Father of Pointillism (thoughtco.com)
Docent Lecture: "Paris and Her Painters," Kay Payne | Legion of Honor (famsf.org)
Eiffel Tower from Tour Montparnasse | | November 29, 2014 | Canon EOS 5D Mark III | ¹⁄₄₀ sec at f/6.3 2500
SDASM.CATALOG: Denbo_00407
SDASM.TITLE: Eiffel Tower
SDASM.DATE: 1914-1919
SDASM.LOCATION: Paris, France
SDASM.COLLECTION: Richard Denbo Collection
SDASM.MEDIA: Glossy Photo
SDASM.DIGITIZED: Yes
PUBLIC COMMONS.SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
unfortunately it was raining the day I visited the Eiffeltower and I had no tripod. So I had to deposit my camera on a wet railing.. I hope she'll forgive me :D
copyright Tour Eiffel – illuminations Pierre Bideau
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After some software issues I finally managed to import all of the photos from my trip to Paris in february this year and started to edit some of my snapshots.. Enjoy! copyright Tour Eiffel – illuminations Pierre Bideau
This is what happens when you decide to move your camera which has not finished its long exposure shot