RAMBLE: MY BLOG

1. Photo of the day, Marseille

   November 6, 2023
   Detail,  fountain of Palais Longchamp

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2. Musee Granet

   November 2, 2023
   The Granet museum has two faces, the first a collection of French, Italian and northern European paintings from the 14th to 19th centuries, and sculpture. The second, housed in a separate building a few blocks removed, exhibits about 70 pieces of  20th-century art, with works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso…

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3. Victor Vasarely; Grandfather of Op-Art, Aix

   October 27, 2023
   Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-French artist widely considered the grandfather of Op-Art. He started his education in medical studies, then switched to traditional painting. I can imagine his parents were not thrilled with that choice. Trained in Budapest in the Bauhaus tradition, Vasarely left Hungary in 1930 for Paris where…

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4. Aix 3

   October 23, 2023
   Flower Market My son in law describes Aix as beautiful but beige. The tones in the structures are similar of course, but the influence of Greek and Roman architecture makes up for the dearth of color.  Emile Zola The Good King The house where Cezanne died You want color? Come…

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5. Aix en Provence 2

   October 22, 2023
   Rotunda Fountain The first full day of the tour was exhausting. Smithsonian has a strange way of scheduling. First there is the arrival day when they had a nice little welcome and a group dinner. The next day was a lot of walking and a lecture - in which several…

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6. Aix en Provence

   October 21, 2023
   Color Palette Old town More than several years ago my wife Amy and I went to Italy to mark a special birthday. We are at it again, another milestone birthday with a trip to Aix en Provence, a town in Southern France not far from Marseille.  Getting here was certainly…

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7. Peace Walls, Belfast

   September 6, 2023
   Faces of Resistance For largest display, click on the individual photograph Belfast is known for being the former epicenter of the Troubles, the conflict that ran approximately 30 years and ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Known as a conflict between the Protestants and Catholics, it was mostly…

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8. Crawford Gallery Cork

   August 31, 2023
   When I travel I seek out museums and galleries to explore. This is a relatively new thing, when I was young I rarely visited museums, and if I did, they were places like the Smithsonian Air & Space museum, or the Hirschhorn Sculpture garden. It’s not like I hadn’t seen…

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9. Old School Photo Shop, Dublin

   August 26, 2023
   For largest image display, click on the individual photograph Imagine running a camera shop these days. First, you must compete on price with the large shops like B&H in NYC and Amazon, not to mention the online printers like Shutterfly. Then there is the expense of running the shop; rent,…

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10. Un-Corked

    August 20, 2023
    Morning panorama For largest display, click on the individual photo. Sometime in the mid-1990s I was invited to a December wedding in Cork and I have been wanting to get back since. Life got in the way, but I am here now, enthusiastically, to spend 5 days, the last leg…

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