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Housed in the former Orsay station, the Orsay
museum is the impressionist museum of Paris.
Built in 1900, the beautiful "Gare d'Orsay" was one of Paris main stations with trains
to Bordeaux.
Located across
the Louvre museum on the Seine river left
bank, it has been spectacularly
renovated from 1977 to 1986 to host the Orsay museum collections.
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Le Dejeuner by Claude Monet - Orsay museum
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Auvers church by Van Gogh - Orsay museum
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The Orsay museum, a must for art lovers, is known worldwide for its
fabulous impressionist paintings.
The "Impressionism" was a French painting
school
in the second half of the 19th century.
The impressionists included Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar
Manet and Theo Van Gogh. They painted ordinary life and people
in the open air.
They totally rejected the tradition of historical and mythological subjects
and used light colors.
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Above all, they are famous for having departed
from the tradition of reproducing the real world.
They instead used color spots and strokes to suggest
their "impression" of the real world. This impression is only
perceivable at a distance from their paintings.
The Impressionist paintings are now widely acclaimed
as some of the bests in art history.
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The Orsay museum |
