Peter Kun Frary, Professor of Music • University of Hawaii, Leeward
Peter Kun Frary, Professor of Music • University of Hawaii, Leeward
Photo by Peter Kun Frary • Canon EOS 40D and EF-s 17-55 2.8 IS USM • Next Image
Musée d'Orsay
I really liked the openness of the Musée d'Orsay building design and its unique and well presented collection. A world class act. Unlike the small, stuffy 'n boxy Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, photography was allowed (no flash of course). The French are smart and important works like Van Gogh's Bedroom are under UV protective glass, bolted to the wall and under the watchful eye of security. And yes, somehow the French got ahold of one of Vincent Van Gogh's (1853-1890) most famous paintings and it's tough titty for the green meanies and photography haters at the Van Gogh Museum. Ha, take that you Dutch infidels!
Van Gogh Museum
The guards at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam were camera Nazis: rudely staring and barking, following you and threatening to toss you out if they thought you might dare photograph a single art work. Extremely disgusting and vulgar behavior. Not even 1/100 as professional in appearance or behavior as their French counterparts at Musée d'Orsay. A bunch of losers. Not surprisingly the Van Gogh Museum gift shop was among the most extensive I have seen, selling every variation of cheaply made Van Gogh prints, books, calendars, coffee mugs, place mats, buttons, hats, pens, tote bags, notebooks, t-shirts, puzzles, etc., for exorbitant prices. With such crass commercialization of Van Gogh images, of course they didn't want you to photograph artwork. Hell you might make your own prints.
I hereby dedicate this image of Van Gogh's Bedroom to Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum. This Musée d'Orsay painting is better than all of yours put together and shall never grace your walls. May your employees visit a "coffeeshop" before work, smoke a big fat doobie and mellow the hell out!!
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