A handful of Norwegians accused me of bringing the nasty weaher with me from Iceland. I understand it has been quite beautiful and sunny here until I arrived. I got a couple hours of wandering through town visiting the palace and it’s attached garden as well as a stroll the along the waterfront before clouds and rain came in. When the rain subsided it became windy. These weather events happened separately, thus it was never cold.
I toured an old fortress and found my way up and down a bustling promenade before visiting the acclaimed National Museum. Art museums can be hit or miss for me more often than not based on my mood rather than content. With plenty of time and no reason to be outside, I challenged myself to move slowly, take in the art, and maybe learn something.
The gallery was set up to move through in chronological order starting with a handful of Greek busts then the early Christian takeover depicting flat religious scenes with their golden halos and creepy babies with adult heads. They are quite enjoyable to view just because of how awful thy are.
Each room told a differen take of the ages and I dove into reading about the Renaissance, Impressionism, Naturalism, and all the “neo” versions. They were seemingly a reaction to the previous mode.
Norway’s premier artist, Edward Munch, who’s work at the turn of the previous century has many of his pieces on the wall including “the Madonna” and his most famous, “the Scream” are housed here. I personally was attracted to some of his other work, but it’s normal for me to not see what others do in the majority of well know art. Munch’s paintings seem like they all went throught a filter that would come on someone’s iPhone.
I toured an old fortress and found my way up and down a bustling promenade before visiting the acclaimed National Museum. Art museums can be hit or miss for me more often than not based on my mood rather than content. With plenty of time and no reason to be outside, I challenged myself to move slowly, take in the art, and maybe learn something.
The gallery was set up to move through in chronological order starting with a handful of Greek busts then the early Christian takeover depicting flat religious scenes with their golden halos and creepy babies with adult heads. They are quite enjoyable to view just because of how awful thy are.
Each room told a differen take of the ages and I dove into reading about the Renaissance, Impressionism, Naturalism, and all the “neo” versions. They were seemingly a reaction to the previous mode.
Norway’s premier artist, Edward Munch, who’s work at the turn of the previous century has many of his pieces on the wall including “the Madonna” and his most famous, “the Scream” are housed here. I personally was attracted to some of his other work, but it’s normal for me to not see what others do in the majority of well know art. Munch’s paintings seem like they all went throught a filter that would come on someone’s iPhone.
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