A Monet Friday

During the day Lorraine, Ralph and Keith and I made a last minute decision to try to see the new Monet exhibit at the NC Museum of Art here in Raleigh. The Museum was offering free admission today only. It officially opens Sunday and will cost $15 per person.

We decided to meet at the Museum at 6pm, NC State fair and Carolina Hurricane's traffic permitting. Ralph and Lorraine made it on time, but we had to deal with heavy traffic on our side of town so we were delayed about 20 minutes. After a 30 minute wait in line, we found Ralph and Lorraine and entered "Monet land".

Wow! It is so amazing! Beautiful paintings filled with stroke after stroke of color, color, color, sun-drenched light, diffused light, moonlight, sailboats, flowers, waterlilies, poplar trees, clouds, cliffs, cathedrals, hazy atmosphere, bright atomosphere, etc.:) There were a few pictures I had never seen before and one of those has never been on display in public until now! It's an impressive collection. How nice is that the NC Art Museum owns two of the better known ones:)

It was like candy for the eyes to me, an Art History major, and to Lorraine, an art lover and artist. Yum!!! We hope to see it again before the exhibit leaves in January--like icing on the cake (and hopefully less people!:)