MMFA exhibition
Terra Cotta Warrior
MMFA exhibition
Terra Cotta Army
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien
à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.
—
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Terre des Hommes, ch III: L'Avion, p 60
——
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing
more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—
Translation :
Wikiquote.org
Worth a thousand words ...
- I never intended to have Pictures.
But here they are, the images that changed the way
I think, for better – I would like to continue or
for worse, but that's clearly impossible in these
days of intense visual stimulation.
Hubble Footer — all Pages
- I wanted a midnight sky, with stars, for my Masthead.
But hated whatever was available on the Web, other than a few
photos taken from the Hubble telescope.
- And then while shopping at Hallmark for a Christmas
calendar for myself I found, tucked between a Cézanne and
a Star Trek The Original Series, an official 2012 NASA Hubble
calendar. I bought them all, no regrets.
- Not a chance that I would cover any part of a Hubble
image with Masthead titles, no matter how tasteful, as I had
originally intended.
On the other hand, scanning less than an inch from the edge of
September gave me a universal Footer, to wrap up each
webpage and put it to bed.
#001 Ercolano, Italy
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum
Photographer: Judy Oliver Turner
Date of Photograph: May 8th, 2011
Detail
#002 Information Plaque, Herculaneum
Photographer: Judy Oliver Turner
Date of Photograph: May 8th, 2011
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- With the exception of the image of Jean Paul
Lemieux's Nineteen Ten Remembered
(found in the online edition of
Heffel Fine Art Auction , on the
occasion of the work's recent sale at auction), and the Hubble Footer,
all Pictures on this page have been scanned from Peter Mellen's
beautiful book 'Landmarks of Canadian Art'
published in 1978 by McClelland and Stewart and given
to us by dear friends for Christmas 1979.
Le petit liseur,
(also known as
Le jeune étudiant)
Ozias Leduc, 1894
Oil on canvas 36.9 x 46.9 cm
Page 156 Plate #67
National Gallery of Canada
Nineteen Ten Remembered,
Jean Paul Lemieux, signed and dated 1962
Oil on canvas 106.7 x 146 cm, 42 x 57-1/2 in
Painting reproduced
Heffel Live Auction Catalogue #018
Saint Laurent (St. Lawrence)
Anonymous, wood, gilded and polychromed, Height 170.2 cm
Page 98 Plate #36
National Gallery of Canada, on loan from the National Museum of Man
Pavane (triptych)
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1954
Oil on canvas 2.99 x 5.49 m
Page 208 Plate #94
National Gallery of Canada
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- With the exception of the Hubble Footer, all Pictures
on the Definitions webpage were scanned from the International
Fine Arts Exhibition Catalogue published at the time
of Montreal's Man and His World Expo 67
World's Fair celebrations
The
Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin, completed 1889
Bronze. Height 213 cm, 84 in
Page 242 Plate 115
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Courtesy Philadelphia Muesum of Art
Head
from a colossal bronze statue, possibly Aphrodite
Greek. 2nd Century B.C.
Bronze. Height 37.8 cm, 14-7/8 in
Page 270 Plate 128
The Trustees of the British Museum, London
Georges Rouault, Passion
c. 1953.
Oil on wood panel. 65 x 42 cm, 25-1/2 x 16-1/2 in
Page 394 Plate 188
Private Collection, Paris
Peter Denying Christ
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1660
Oil. 154 x 169 cm, 60-5/8 x 66-1/2 in
Page 236 Plate 112
Rijksmuseum Museum, Amsterdam
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- For reasons explained in said pages, all Pictures
were shot by Judy Oliver Turner on September 6, 2011 at the Royal
Bank Building, formerly 360 St. James Street West, Montreal:–
#003 Entrance from Main Floor up to the Royal Bank
Branch:
Royal
Bank History
#004 Ornate Ceiling
Royal Bank Building, Main Floor
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour
de la Banque Royale – Royal Bank Tower
#005 Letterbox
Royal Bank Building, Main Floor
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour
de la Banque Royale – Royal Bank Tower
#006 Royal Bank Building
Entrance from Notre-Dame Street
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour
de la Banque Royale – Royal Bank Tower
#008 Safe Deposit area
Royal Bank Building, Underground vault
#014 Another ceiling – wood
Royal Bank Building, Main Floor
#018 Photograph of old photo displayed at branch level
with accompanying
Royal Bank History
#019 Royal Bank Building
Front Door East side
#020 Address plaque
Royal Bank Building, St. James Street
#021 Royal Bank Building
Front Entrance 360 St James
Much enlarged detail coat of arms above
entrance doors and
accompanying
History of Royal Bank Logo
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This Page – Pictures-1
- Pictures for this Page are keepsakes from our
June 2nd 2011 visit to the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts on Sherbrooke Street West to visit the Exhibition of
the Terra Cotta Army from China which had been in place since
the previous February and would be moving on very soon.
- Note that taking photographs of the Exhibits inside the Museum
is not permitted, but quite lovely photos are available at
the MMFA/MBAM
exhibition website.
- The Museum bookstore also offers many treasures, including an
official MMFA guidebook, as well as a magnificent book of photographs and
relevant poetry, The Terracotta Army, by
Gary Geddes, winner of the
Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region. I haven't actually
reproduced any of those photos but the book is available in PDF format from
gooselane.com. If
it can be found, the original is well worth buying and keeping.
- Of course, the Exhibits are even more spectacular in real life, if it's
permissible to describe 2,200-year-old objects in such terms.
Terra Cotta Warrior
Exhibition Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army
February 11 to June 26, 2011
Terra Cotta Army
Exhibition Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army
February 11 to June 26, 2011
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Masthead
MMFA Composite
MMBA exhibits
Musée des Beaux-Arts Montréal – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Pavillon Jean-Noël Desmarais
1380 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1379 Sherbrooke Street West
with Jim Dine's Twin 6' Hearts, gift International Friends of the MMFA
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse
Waterhouse Collection Exhibition,
October 2,
2009 to February 7, 2010
Spring cleaning at the
Redpath Museum
Redpath Museum, 859 Sherbrooke Street West
also
What Building Stones Tell,
McGill's Redpath Museum Fossil Hunt,
The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg, 1850
Museum George Schaefer, Schweinfurt, Germany
Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 26.8 cm (19-1/2 x 10-1/2 in)
Gustave Doré, The Neophyte ca 1866-1868
Chrysler
Museum of Art, Gallery 205
click 'enlarge image' for otherworldly experience
Oil on canvas, 57-3/8 x 107-1/2 in, 145.7 x 273.1 cm
copyright Chrysler Museum of Art
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- There is no logical explanation for the choice of pictures on this
page, except that once the Hazlitt 'loitered my life away' quotation was in
place it seemed to preclude most of the available images.
City on the Edge of Forever, Scene #307
Star Trek, Season One, Episode 28
Wikipedia, Star Trek:
The Original Series
Book Cover 'The Tinderbox' Hans Christian Andersen
'The Tinderbox' (Hardcover) adapted Stephen Mitchell,
Illustrator Bagram Ibatoulline
Wikipedia, The Tinderbox
William Hazlitt, Self-Portrait (1082)
Wikipedia, William Hazlitt
Oil on canvas 11" x 14" ?
Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Kent UK
Found on a Sundial near Venice
'horas non numero nisi serenas'
'I count only the happy hours' –
William Hazlitt
Still Life with Books and Magnifying Glass Page Content (1)
Wikipedia, Ozias Leduc
Oil on millboard 22.6 x 31.8 cm
National Gallery of Canada, purchased 1969
Hovercar from film Blade Runner
Wikipedia, Blade Runner
Turbulence
aboard Star Trek Enterprise
Wikipedia, Star Trek: The
Original Series
No seat belts — Imagine the fines that could be collected by the Intergalactic
Highway Authority
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