October 15, 2015 Friday
AMSTERDAM and THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM
It's about an hour and a half drive to Amsterdam from Wageningen so we headed there on Saturday to go to the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum.
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Amsterdam -- it was a very rainy day
Canal in Amsterdam
I wanted to buy some Delftware at this store, but the smallest plate was 95 Euros.
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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
SOME OF MY FAVORITE VAN GOGH PAINTINGS WE SAW:
Potato Eaters
Irises
The Sower
Sunflowers
The Yellow House
One of my favorite Van Gogh paintings, "Starry Night", isn't in Amsterdam,
but rather in the Modern Art Museum in New York City.
We were told that people are always asking at the museum for "The Scream".
They have to tell them it's not a Van Gogh. I think people have so often
seen the combined "Starry Night" and "The Scream" picture that they
think it's a Van Gogh.
While we were at the museum there was a special exhibit of
Munch and Van Gogh that had one of the four versions of "The Scream".
(A week earlier I had seen another version of "The Scream" in Vienna).
The real Van Gogh "Starry Night"
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Someone put the two together to make a very scary scene.
Yay! I'm glad you made it to the Van Gogh museum! I know how much you were looking forward to that. Are his paintings very large in real life? His style is so interesting and unique. I like the painting of Irises. Amsterdam is such a neat-looking city. I've only ever been to the airport. Someday I'd like to see more of the place, even though I know there's a lot of icky stuff that goes on there, too. Too bad the beautiful Delft dishes were so expensive!!
ReplyDeleteI love Van Gogh for many reasons. First of all, because I have lived in Holland and seen most of his paintings. Second, I read Irving Stone's LUST FOR LIFE biography of Van Gogh. Third is the story of football Coach "Digger" Phelps of Notre Dame (in the 1970's) whose life was changed by seeing Van Gogh's paintings in Amsterdam. I think I'll write a post about that.
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