Comments on the style saloniste: The Art of the Postcard: Faces in the Crowd at the Louvre

Oh how I wished you had written this before I left...

2009-09-14T06:10:35.024-07:00

Oh how I wished you had written this before I left for Paris! We were in that chapel and I had no idea it had anything by delacroix! It was my favorite church though by far! How odd that you describe the very walk we took and even stopped in Sennelier! And yes - i sent many postcards home! Whats more fun than receiving a postcard?!

This whole post is so beautiful, but I have to adm...

2009-09-09T19:14:16.544-07:00

This whole post is so beautiful, but I have to admit I had a hard time concentrating after I saw the words "new Dries Van Noten boutique". You tease us so!

Lovely post, merci. So true about which images or...

2009-09-08T19:00:11.345-07:00

Lovely post, merci. So true about which images or paintings can be properly captured in the postal card format, I am in total agreement with you. I never receive postcards anymore and rarely send them myself but do ardently collect them with considerable discrimination, could spend hours in the Louvre or National in London or the Met or Modern searching the racks. Its also something about the paper, the weight, that matte finish, and even the style, font and placement, in which it is identified on the reverse. Not so far from a fetish, no? Excellent postcard selection, speaking of appropriate and well photographed images, can be found at the Museum of African Art on the Mall in Washington. Good hunting!

Hi Little--and Hi Catherine- Thanks...as we walke...

2009-09-08T15:23:31.490-07:00

Hi Little--and Hi Catherine-

Thanks...as we walked along the rue de Seine, and admired, for the millionth time, the wonderful paintings of Delacroix. Important to note that you could walk into the ST SULPICE chuch many times, and not notice the small chapel to the right, with the huge Delacroix paintings. You cannot see them as you enter...must walk into the chapel to view.
Yes, Catherine...I see visitors taking digitals of Monet paintings or sculptures and art. They do not look, they snap a digital. You are right they would be mediocre. But at least they are in a museum.
Now, on my desk, I have Matisse paintings, an Ingres I love, several Monets, and I gaze at them when I am writing. Yes, they are tiny, but they capture me and enrapture me. I can look at the detail all day--which of course you cannot with an original, at a museum.
Will keep you posted...on post cards. (Yes, no-one sends them any more.)

I never could understand why people feel compelled...

2009-09-08T08:31:45.046-07:00

I never could understand why people feel compelled to photograph the Mona Lisa. Or Versailles, for example. I prefer to buy a book with photographs by a professional.
I still send postcards but can't even remember the last time I received one.
Catherine

and you Paint Too? what a wonderful jaunt thank yo...

2009-09-07T21:36:31.056-07:00

and you Paint Too? what a wonderful jaunt thank you for taking me along, is the postcard is in the mail? la