Les Coquelicots

impressions soleil couchant [jatp]

impressions soleil levant [jatp]

MUDAM

As our son is doing an internship in Luxembourg City this semester, we visited him last weekend and took the opportunity to visit the Museum of Modern Art (or MUDAM) there. The building itself is quite impressive, inserted in the walls of the 18th Century Fort Thüngen designed by Vauban, with a very luminous and airy building designed by Ming Pei. The main exhibit at the MUDAM is a coverage of the work on Su-Mei Tse, an artist from Luxembourg I did not know but whom vision I find both original and highly impressive, playing on scales and space, from atoms to planets… With connections to Monet’s nympheas. And an almost raw rendering of rock forms that I appreciate most particularly!

The bottom floor also contains an extensive display of the political drawings of Ad Reinhardt, who is more (?) famous for his black-on-black series…

impression, soleil couchant

 

As the sunset the day before had been magnificent [thanks to the current air pollution!], I attempted to catch it from a nice spot and went to the top of the nearby hill. The particles were alas (!) not so numerous that evening and so I only got this standard view of the sun going down. Incidentally, I had read a few days earlier in the plane from Vienna that the time and date when Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant was painted had been identified by a U.S. astronomer as 7h35 on the 13th of Novembre 1872. In Le Havre, Normandy. An exhibit in the nearby Musée Marmottan retraces this quest…