louisiana

Back on track. After a busy couple of months of uni and assessments I now have time to write more about what I've been doing in my spare time.
A couple of months ago now, one of the teachers from school took a group of us exchange students on a little excursion to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Extremely generously, it was all paid for by the school including the train ride there and entrance as well. The main reason we went was to see the Picasso exhibition that had just opened the week before. It really was a great collection of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings focusing on the artist's ability to interpret and transform the political and social events of the 20th century.
I wasn't able to take any photos of the exhibition but some of my favourite pieces were the posters that he had designed for various events as well as the sketches he had done for French newspapers.

The other parts of the museum were also excellent. The permanent collection had some really interesting things by some of the heavy weights of modern art including Warhol, Lichtenstein, Yves Klein and Alberto Giacometti. There was also a really great exhibition by American artist Walton Ford who does paintings of animals of all kinds in the style of old zoological illustrations. They were amazingly detailed and beautiful and grotesque at the same time. As an artist I hadn't heard of before, it was really great to be able to see such a collection of his work.

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