CHRISTMAS IN LONDON, 2001
Art I liked

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Our Apartment * What we did * Christmas Day
Art I liked * London Sights

 
 
 
 



 
   

The paintings at the National Gallery just glowed. I never saw Van Gogh looking so vibrant.

Wheatfield and Cypresses
Van Gogh



 
   

The Thames below Westminster
Monet



 
   

There was a special Japanese exhibit at the British Museum with an illuminated float built on-site. This mask was part of the exhibit.




 
   

At the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew there is this mural made from the wood of the many trees that had fallen in a storm in 1987.




 

   

At Sir John Soane's Museum we saw William Hogarth's original paintings for The Rake's Progress and The Election. This is one of the paintings from The Election. It shows politicians offering trinkets to the ladies and otherwise buying votes.

photo from Web Gallery of Art, http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/

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