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Musée de l’Orangerie

Monet, Water Lillies 

cycle of eight paintings perfectly installed across two elliptical rooms as a landscape [1] > a true ‘Sixtine of Impressionism’ — André Masson in 1952 // similar exhibition approach to that of Twombly’s Lepanto cycle

all-ecompassing of the viewer, particularly at the ends of the rooms / beautiful dusty pink/orange glow > tranquility 

lots of dry scumbling // a touch unsatisfying up close > coarseness of texture (un-water like) and dryness of surface is frustrating / similarly, there’s frustrating avoidance of the edge which detracts from the all-overness > a tentativeness apparent in the brush work which reveals the canvas [2] 

nearly abstract in (large) parts > scribbles are like those of Twombly [3] > the Twombly, Turner, Monet exhibition continues to makes sense

Collection & Tokyo-Paris: Chefs d'œuvre du Bridgestone Museum of Art de Tokyo Collection Ishibashi Foundation

lots of impressionism in Japan

Kazuo Shiraga [4-6] > something like action painting x calligraphy

more Don Quixote: Honoré Daumier, Don Quichotte et Sancho se rendant aux noces de Gamaches // is Daumier responsible for this idea of Quixote’s appearance?

Jeu de Paume

Oscar Murillo, Estructuras resonantes [7]

no painting, but a wall piece and three-channel video installation // text on wall is about “the economy of all living things / from modernism to thirdworldism” > provocatively stating “long live Paris” followed by repeated assertions of the pan-African and pan-Aribicana invasions // strategies for grad show?

Ismaïl Bahri, Instruments [8-9]

From the wall text:

The work of Israel Bari cultivates slowness. It is based on a close exploration of simple elements and the often tenuous reactions that occur when those elements are brought into contact. The artist runs through series of small gestures, repeating them assiduously — he activates things, sets them in motion, transform them, ties them in knots, crumples them — and he welcomes the unforeseen developments that ensue. [...] It is [at] that moment of perceptive focus, poised on a tight rope between preciseness and insubstantially, that the force of things and the potential for variation emerge.

This was stunning. Just simple gestures: rolling up a spool of thread; crumpling a glossy magazine page until it became blank; burning a hole in a sheet of paper. Video portrait of Bahri. 

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Espace Dalí

Predominantly print and sculptural works; better than I expected, overall.

Hyperbolic and adulatory texts throughout, e.g. "the modern day Leonardo da Vinci"

“He was [...] a vulgariser of genius”

“the encounter with history is a way of understanding time. When he transforms archetypes from art history, such as Venus de Milo, he projects the Platonic ideal of beauty into modern times.”

Re: Done Quixote

Dali lived at 7 Rue Becquerel and so couldn't not see Montmarte's windmills, “an essential aspect of the Montmartre myth and of Cervantes' Don Quixote” // video below

“he used rhinoceros horns filled with bread soaked i pink to throw harquebus [“an obsolete firearm with a long barrel”] pellets at a a limestone slab” > this is undeniably a performance work

fairly incohesive series of prints, but, I guess, fairly reflecting the absurdity of the source material // beautiful combinations of incredibly fine detail with, well, rhinoceros horns (which give a ridiculous dynamism where used)  

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Munich

Brandhorst 

'Cy Twombly: In the Studio’, lots of drawings and photographs

Lepanto > awesome room, spent a lot of time there // set the alarm off a number of times // no photos allowed > guard was fairly officious 

Cervantes fought in the battle of Lepanto?

bought Brandhorst collection book

Alte Pinakhotek

Wasn’t really in the mood for this gallery

Venice still looks like this > cf. Javier Mariás 

New Pinakhotek

Honoré Daumier, Don Quixote, 1868 > cover image of my edition of DQ

Eugene Delacroix, The Death of Valentine, 1826 > inspiration for the woman holding the candle in Picasso’s Guernica?

★ Gabriel von Max > fucking wow.

The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharine Emmerich (1885) > Richter? (or maybe it’s just a candle *shrug*)

Monkeys as Judges of Art (1889) 

The Anatomist (1869)

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers > didn’t expect this to be so nice

Pinakhotek Moderne 

Kirchner, colour... phwoar

Luciano Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Olii (62 O 58), 1962 > interesting that it’s essentially a monochromatic painting, but the way it surface works the light via both the incisions and its material qualities makes it operate in a way that isn’t monochromatic at all

The Morandis are beautiful 

Twombly > the surface detail on Bolsena (1969) offer more than Lepanto // the simple compositional structures of Untitled (New York City) (1968) and Untitled (1971) are interesting > NNW says that landscapes like these would’ve been a better way of tackling drawing Venice