{"id":8723,"date":"2017-07-26T20:29:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2017-07-26T20:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:35:50","slug":"the-beautiful-musee-dorsay-a-must-see-art-gallery-in-paris-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8723","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful Musee D&#8217;Orsay &#8211; a must see art gallery in Paris &#8211; part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part II of my little expos\u00e9 of the wonderful Musee D&#8217;Orsay art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go onto some more of my favorite artworks &#8211; the gallery boasts an incredible range of beautiful nudes which I will limit here to hopefully ensure viewing is not an issue in workplaces although there is a bold male nude as an allegory to war at the end of this post!<\/p>\n<p>These were all shot with the <a title=\"my wiki page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem1ii\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus OM-D E-M1 II Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> with the <a title=\"my wiki page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusmzd40-150Pro\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus mZD 40-150mm f\/2.8 pro lens<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Vincent van Gogh <em>La Nuit \u00e9toil\u00e9e (Starry night)<\/em> 1888:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120521-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120521-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eugene Jansson <em>Gryning over Ridderfjarden<\/em> 1899:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120523-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120523-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Degas <em>R\u00e9p\u00e9tition d&#8217;un ballet sur la sc\u00e8ne<\/em> 1874, well we all know how much Degas loved painting and sculpting the ballet dancers, and he has left us all with his beautiful legacy of works such as this one:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120542-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120542-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edouard Manet <em>La Dame aux \u00e9ventails<\/em> 1873:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120544-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120544-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre Auguste Renoir <em>Danse \u00e0 la ville<\/em> 1883.  one of my favorite painters who showed you don&#8217;t need the anatomic proportions to always be correct to have an aesthetic image (a yes, he often gets a bit of flack for this), and furthermore was brave enough to put blues and greens together without anything between in the majority of his works. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120550-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120550-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Cezanne <em>Les Jouers de cartes<\/em> 1890-95:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120568-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120568-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Degas <em>Danseuses bleues<\/em> 1893:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120570-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120570-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Claude Monet <em>Femme \u00e0 l&#8217;ombrelle tourn\u00e9e vers la gauche<\/em> 1886:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120582-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120582-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edouard Manet <em>Sur la plage<\/em> 1873:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120584-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120584-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre Auguste Renoir <em>La Liseuse<\/em> 1874-76:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120588-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120588-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Berthe Morisot Le Berceau 1872:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120590-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120590-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre Auguste Renoir <em>Bal du moulin de la Galette<\/em> 1876:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120600-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120600-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Cezanne <em>Louis-Auguste Cezanne &#8211; the artist&#8217;s father<\/em> 1866:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120615-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120615-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Cezanne <em>Dominique &#8211; the artist&#8217;s uncle<\/em> 1866-67:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120625-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120625-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luc Olivier Merson (1846-1920) <em>La Fortune<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120670-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120670-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henri Camille Danger <em>Fl\u00e9au<\/em> 1901, an allegory of war and a rather bold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/news\/story\/944399\/musee-dorsay-curator-tackles-the-ultimate-taboo-academic-art\" title=\"discussion on the acquisition\" target=\"_blank\">recent acquisition<\/a> by the gallery to expand their late Academic period works &#8211; turn away now if you cannot cope with a full frontal male nude: <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120679-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120679-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just Becquet <em>L&#8217;Ab\u00eeme<\/em> marble 1901 (This apparently translates as the abyss):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"D'Orsay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120692-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D'Orsay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/France2017\/MuseeDOrsay\/GA120692-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part II of my little expos\u00e9 of the wonderful Musee D&#8217;Orsay art gallery. Let&#8217;s go onto some more of my favorite artworks &#8211; the gallery boasts an incredible range of beautiful nudes which I will limit here to hopefully ensure viewing is not an issue in workplaces although there is a bold male nude as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,181],"tags":[502,169,479,131,475],"class_list":["post-8723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-travel-photography","tag-art","tag-art-gallery","tag-musee-dorsay","tag-paintings","tag-paris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}