We went to the Carnegie Museum of Art today. It's generally pretty good. Their Impressionist galleries were closed for renovation. Some of the paintings were relocated to their traveling exhibit, which paired Impressionist painting and prints with contemporary art-photography. There was some gorgeous content there, but photos were prohibited. Worst, the Carnegie Museum only has one Henri Rousseau painting, and it wasn't even on display today, so you've really got to wonder how serious they are about this whole "museum" business. It was past 4:00 by the time we got to the pre-20th-Century stuff in the permanent collection, so these pictures are from the modern galleries:
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Mark Rothko's provocatively-titled Yellow and Blue. My crappy Web-1.0-era photo hosting site refuses to let me post this the right way up. Imagine it with the blue part at the bottom, I guess. |
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Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale (Attesa) |
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Telephone [4] by Pittsburgh's own Andy Warhol |
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Wayne Thiebaud, Table Setting |
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Landscape by Francis Bacon |
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Pierre Bonnard, Nude in a Bathtub. This painting is stupendous in person. |
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Sigmar Polke, Watchtower II. The shiny veneer on this canvas is only visible at very oblique angles. |
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