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| Hubert Robert's The Obelisk.
| | Hubert Robert's The Old Temple.
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| Claude-Joseph Vernet's Morning has good quality light effects.
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I found interesting the nineteenth-century Parisan fascination with
beggar-philosophers, as expressed on this
interpretive sign near two paintings by Manet.
| I think putting semi-transparent pictures on glass is a great effect. I
wonder why it isn't done more.
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Seurat's famous A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. (Yes, the name sounds
familiar because he invented pointillism.)
Notice how elegant, cultured, and upper-class the people seem.
| One of Seurat's studies for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.
| A plaque analyzing the differences between the study and the final
composition.
| Seurat's final study for Bathers at Asnières.
Notice what a different class of people is portrayed here.
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Details about the study.
The two Seurats I photographed with
different types of people in each were painted on opposite sides of the
same river.
| Though I didn't like the painting this plaque talks about and hence I
didn't photograph it, I took a picture of the plaque for the
story/example of how popular taste can influence
already-supposedly-finished art.
| van Gogh's The Drinkers. I took a picture of it because I
appreciated the symbolism (described on the accompanying plaque: the next
picture).
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| A panoramic movie of a roomful of Monets. I especially like the row of
paintings of haystacks.
| Hopper's noir-ish Nighthawks.
| A panoramic movie of the well-hidden room filled with paperweights.
| A close-up of the display of paperweights I liked the most. Sorry, I
forgot to write down which time period and region these paperweights were
made in.
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| Childe Hassam's style, as displayed in this painting, New York
Street, reminds me of Renoir's, as displayed in, for example, this
painting I saw in Boston.
| | Cadurcis Plantagenet Ream's Purple Plums perfectly captures the
dewy glow fresh plums have, though the lack of reference
points for scale within the painting makes them look huge.
Incidentally, the lighting makes the frame look pretty good too.
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| Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance IV is an
example of pixelation before computers.
| A precisely-made 8th-century mandarin duck.
| Details about the mandarin duck / wild goose.
| These metal sculptures of a crab and a dragon are articulated. The joints
are so well hidden, I couldn't/can't see them.
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The museum has an amazing room showing detailed miniature rooms.
I'd didn't take any pictures because I didn't think I'd be able to
capture their depth. But, some of these rooms made me say wow. They
even had depth in the backyard gardens (as seen through the back
windows in the miniature rooms)!
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| Dinner at Sabri Nihari, and nearby
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| As with lunch, during our Indian dinner at Sabri Nihari Di Yin took most of
the pictures. I only took this picture to document that we made little
naan sandwiches out of the pounded meat and vegetables. The meat (chaplee
kabab?) was moist and flavorful. It was good straight or in a sandwich
like this with lettuce, onion, tomato, and raita. By the way, the naan
was one huge oval loaf larger than a plate. I've never seen it made like
that before.
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To start the meal we had good samosa, though drab in places.
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We also had the "frontier chicken", a very good dish of cubed chicken in
an Indian tomato-onion-cilantro sauce.
| Two Indian desserts I bought from the nearby Sukhadia's Sweets:
bundi ladoo and carrot halva. I saved these for dessert for other
evenings. When I had the carrot halva later, I discovered it was as good
as my version (which I loved).
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| Chicago at Night
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| The first of several scenes of Chicago's skyline at night.
| | | The Water Tower at night.
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