2007-02-09 09:34:07 · 22 answers · asked by james.ballin 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
The Musee D'Orsay in Paris. Hundreds of Impressionist paintings - room after room of them. Your head will swim as you move from room to room, seeing paintings that you recognise.
Worth every penny!
2007-02-09 10:02:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The National Portrait Gallery in London
2007-02-09 17:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by Young Lass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Banks Gallery in Portsmouth New Hampshire is the best I have visited. I attended "The Boston School" Show and there were many stunning paintings by historical artists such as Paxton as well as contemporary classical realism artists such as Dana Levin. The Gallery owner is very knowledgeable and friendly. The Banks Gallery has an incredible collection of paintings saturating the walls from many nationally known artists.
2007-02-09 20:08:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The National Gallery in London is bloody good mind. They have a good shop in the sainsbury wing too, and a crap shop somehwere else in the building. There's also a book shop too underneath it. Their restaurant has a nice view of Trafalgar Square, and I did eat in it once but can't remember anything about it other than the biscuit was incredibly inedibly like rock.
And of course, the paintings are pretty jaw droppingly awesome. Rembrandt, Rubens, Michaelangelo, Van Eyck, Leonardo, Holbein, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Frans Hals, Durer, Vermeer, Degas, Manet, Daumier, Corbet...I think it is one of the best collections in the world of European Art from the past 1000 years.
It's around the corner from the National Portrait Gallery (which is like an old woman trying to dance at a disco, plain silly!), and it has nice settee's in to sit and look at the pictures and their hugely thick (sometimes) gold frames.
That's the best one, but The V&A is my favourite.
2007-02-09 20:42:24 · answer #4 · answered by Hailstone Mary 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say The Victoria & Albert Museum occupies a gorgeous facility near Kensington Gardens and displays an extensive collection of decorative arts. In fact, it boasts more than 4 million objects in 146 galleries. Highlighting cultures from around the world, exhibits are organized by country, material, and time period. Indian art is well-represented and awe-inspiring. Past exhibits have included a showcase of Art Nouveau sculptures and paintings from around the world. TUBE: South Kensington
Try it sometime you might like it, have a nice weekend skycat
2007-02-09 18:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because it was the first I ever went to, and hosts some wonderful temporary exhibitions alongside one of the best eclectic permanent mix of art from so many artists, it has to be the original Tate Gallery. It just gets better all the time
2007-02-09 17:48:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Courtauld gallery in London is good because of the French impressionist paintings.
2007-02-10 10:23:59 · answer #7 · answered by Professor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Public Museums : El Prado in Madrid and Musee D'Orsay in Paris. Private Gallery Maeght in Paris and Barcelona
2007-02-09 22:48:35 · answer #8 · answered by torreart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tate modern is amazing if you like modern art, but if your into the more traditional stuff the national gallery is pretty good. (Both galleries are in London)
2007-02-09 17:43:24 · answer #9 · answered by Laura H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
National Gallery (London - superb), The Louvre or the Musee D'Orsay (Paris) and the Palace de Versailles (outside of Paris)
Recommend them all
2007-02-09 18:54:02 · answer #10 · answered by Vicky K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels
San Antonio, Texas 78209
French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists; early 20th-century modernists like Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall; and Southwestern santos and retablos.
The museum is the private mansion and grounds of Marion Koogler McNay and is Texas' first modern art museum
2007-02-09 17:45:14 · answer #11 · answered by nostromobb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋