The Joslyn

Jamie, Kyle and I went to the Joslyn Art Museum today ($3 for the exhibitions on Thursday from 4-8 pm) to see "Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art."

It was a pretty good exhibit. It was kind of random in that it wasn't organized by any sort of theme or art movement or style, but was just rather highlights from the New Orleans Museum of Art's collection. Money from the exhibition will be put towards the NOMA, which suffered millions of dollars in damage from Katrina (I felt a little guilty for going on a discounted day).

What was most exciting about it was that you walk up the stairs to the exhibit and immediately before you is The Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, painted in 1788 one year before the start of the Revolution (as told to me by Jamie...I knew it was somewhere around there). Elisabeth painted many of the Queen's portraits (as seen in Marie Antoinette). The painting is an imposing 10 feet tall and very visually striking. So it really started with a bang. You can get somewhat of a sense of scale from the (illegal) photo below, but obviously, it doesn't create the same effect. The painting that Jamie is looking at in the photo is the Portrait of Louis XIV by Claude Lefebvre.





Here Kyle studies a work by Pissarro. Other notable artists included in the exhibition were Degas, Rodin, Monet, Renoir, Gaugin, Braque, Picasso, Cassatt, Chagall, Ernst, Kandinsky, Matisse, Miró, O' Keefe, and Pollock; you know, the usual suspects.