RAMBLE: MY BLOG
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Photo of the day, Marseille
November 6, 2023
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Detail, fountain of Palais Longchamp
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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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Victor Vasarely; Grandfather of Op-Art, Aix
October 27, 2023
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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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Aix 3
October 23, 2023
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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.
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Emile Zola
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The Good King
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The house where Cezanne died
You want color? Come…
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Aix en Provence 2
October 22, 2023
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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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Aix en Provence
October 21, 2023
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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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Peace Walls, Belfast
September 6, 2023
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Faces of Resistance
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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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Crawford Gallery Cork
August 31, 2023
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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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Old School Photo Shop, Dublin
August 26, 2023
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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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Un-Corked
August 20, 2023
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Morning panorama
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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…
