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Orsay Museum
This magnificent museum, located in the old Orsay railway station built in 1900, is dedicated to all forms of artistic expression: painting, sculpture and photography of the 1848-1914 period. The era of the impressionist painters is particularly well represented with the masterpieces of Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas... Admire the delicate brush strokes of Renoir, the serious self-portrait of Van Gogh, the radiance of a Monet's landscape amongst other artistic marvels.
Built by architect Victor Laloux in 1900, the "Gare d'Orsay" was
one of the Paris stations with trains to the south-west (Orleans
and Bordeaux). Located across the Louvre on the Seine river left
bank, it has been spectacularly renovated from 1977 to 1986 to
house the Orsay museum. The museum architecture has been praised
as a major success in industrial building renovation.
The Orsay museum (Musee d'Orsay in french) is the 19th century
French arts museum. It is known worldwide for its famous impressionists
collections and is a must to arts lovers.
In the 1870, the "Impressionism" was a French "Avant-garde" painters group rejected by the official academy. The impressionists (among them Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Manet, Théo Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne) painted ordinary life and people on the spot and in the open air.
They rejected historical and mythological subjects. They used light colors. Above all, they are famous for having departed from the tradition of painting "reality". They instead used color spots and strokes to suggest their "impression" of the reality that only reveals itself from the distance.
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