Rijksmuseum

This is where all of the Dutch masters literally hang. Not Van Gough, that’s a different museum that was sold out.

Yes, this museum was crowded, a Saturday in vacationing August will do that, but there were many times and places where I was alone with the art.

My first art love is impressionist, but the Dutch Masters were some of the first painters to move from painting only people to painting landscapes and situations they made up in their minds. Basically moving from painting static, real people to painting invented and contrived things.

These painters created floral arrangements made of flowers that don’t bloom at the same time. Saint Nicholas day parties with funny situations.

I’ve discovered a new favorite kind of art, paintings of rooms, filled with other peoples art. Or, Paintings that became famous because their content is rooms displaying famous works of art hanging on walls and this itself is now a famous pieces of art. Like an early instagram post, “I was in this room of art and this is what it looks like!”

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