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[princess]

Who else here saw this at the National Museum of Korea in Ichon? I went last Sunday. It was good, but it could have been better. There were signs out front telling people to turn off their cellies, or at least put them on vibration mode. Well, inside there were screaming kids and kids running around. That's worse than handphones. May as well have not had the cell phone rule. Too bad, the Mona Lisa was not sent over. At the end of the exhibit, there was a cheesy area set up selling souvenir type things and reproductions of the paintings...as in OVERPRICED! Good, but could have been better.

[Sine qua non]

Totally!

The Louvre exhibit blew big donkey balls! There were only like 100 paintings and it cost 10,000 won to get in. Plus, there were no famous paintings, like you mentioned.

Remember Guys on Film?
"Louvre exhibit? Hated it."

Check out the Magritte by City Hall station, down the road beside Duksugung (Duksu Palace). For 10,000 won, there are many more paintings and other pieces from Rene Magritte on display.

Also, the Picasso to van Gogh display at the Seoul Arts Center was great. Even though it was 13,000 won, it was worth the money and much better than the Louvre display.

Me and my friends felt like we got ripped off at the Louvre display. If the Korean National Museum of Art is going to have a display like they had, they really MUST indicate that the items on loan from the Lourve are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the Louvre's collection.

Ripped off, big time.

[princess]

Yes, Sine qua non, I really must check out the Picasso/van Gogh exhibit. I love van Gogh. I'm sure it will be better because the Seoul Arts Center has pleased me in the past. I went to last year's Barbie show there and it was great!

[huffdaddy]

[SarcasmKills]

One of my roommates and his gf came back from the exhibit pissed... Apparently not only was the exhibit weak, but the kids running around freely and people ignoring the barriers set them off..

Plus they said the place looks like a communist tomb...

I'll pass.

Went to the Magrite exhibit a couple of weekends back.. it was decent...

[blaseblasphemener]

[rothkowitz]

Large museums just make me groggy.

I find I have to find out about what they have beforehand and just hunt that stuff out.

Museums are awful places to go on the weekend,Korea especially.They seem to regard it as something akin to a walk in the park,as opposed to a real object library of sorts.

Same with the cinema here.I just won't go in peak time,if at all.I always end up sitting next to someone who starts smacking away on KFC.

[Sine qua non]

Does anyone know of any other exhibitions opening in the future?

[seethetraffic]

The "Van Gogh to Picasso" exhibit is showing at
Seoul Art Center's Hangaram Art Museum. The
exhibit includes works by Cezanne, Gaugin,
Renoir, Monet and Munch.

Looks like a real treasure trove of the kind of art I like.
I'm not sure why I didn't see this show listed anywhere
before a few days ago.

http://www.sac.or.kr/eng/program/Daily.jsp

http://gogh.chosun.com/english/main.htm

[hogwonguy1979]

we went yesterday, mob scene, why do people bring small kids to these things.

i'm not an art person but my wife is. she said it was ok at best, she didn't think the quality was that great, seems like they sent the second string artists and artwork, not like though she was expecting the mona lisa etc. it was interesting imho, not a bad way to kill 90 minutes on a lousy weather day

she thought the chagal exhibit a couple of years ago over by city hall was fantastic so maybe that place has better funding/connections etc

[Corporal]

[rothkowitz]

Kids have about the same concept of art as Eskimos.

Leave them with the grandparents for the day

[princess]

[seethetraffic]

Van Gogh Coming to Seoul
Hankook Ilbo, The Korea Times Organize Exhibition in November


By Seo Dong-shin
Staff Reporter



�Self-Portrait With Straw Hat and Artist�s Smock,� an 1887 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, will come to Seoul in November as part of a massive exhibition of the Dutch painter�s work organized by the Hankook Ilbo and The Korea Times in cooperation with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The exhibition will be the first of its kind in Korea and 90 paintings and drawings of the Post-Impressionist will be on display.
A massive exhibition of one of the world's best-known and perhaps most-beloved artists, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), will be held in Seoul later this year.
The Hankook Ilbo, a sister company of The Korea Times, will bring some 90 works of Van Gogh to the Seoul Museum of Art in November in cooperation with two Dutch museums that house the majority of the works done by the immortal artist, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Kroeller-Mueller Museum in Otterlo. Out of about 900 drawings and oil paintings Van Gogh left before his death, the two museums' combined collection constitutes roughly half.

Van Gogh is largely classified as a Post-Impressionist and he had a huge, undisputable influence on 20th century art _ especially Expressionism.

But it is also his dramatic, unfortunate life that has struck a chord in many hearts across time and space. While living, the Dutch painter was constantly hobbled by extreme poverty, mental instability and conflict with the existing world of the times. It is an irony that his paintings are now among the most expensive at art auctions. His ``Portrait of Dr. Gachet'' fetched the highest-ever price of $82.5 million in 1990 _ a record broken only in 2004 by Pablo Picasso's ``Garcon a la Pipe,'' which sold for $104.2 million in 2004, and ``Dora Maar au Chat,'' which sold for $95.2 million in 2006.

The Van Gogh exhibition will be the first of its kind in Korea. Its scale is unrivaled, except for the one held in 1990 at the Van Gogh Museum to mark the 100th anniversary of the artist's death.

The show will include representative works encompassing the entire decade of the artistic phase in the painter's life. Among them are ``Irises,'' ``Self-portrait,'' and ``The Sower.''

Hosting the Van Gogh exhibition is a much-coveted dream among commissioners around the world. The Hankook Ilbo beat a number of domestic as well as overseas competitors to organize this event.

The total market value for some 40 oil paintings and a similar number of drawings to be displayed in Seoul is estimated at one trillion won. The show is a milestone in the country's exhibition industry, and at the same time highlights South Korea's commitment to cultural development.

Ahead of the Van Gogh exhibition, the Hankook Ilbo will also host a Claude Monet exhibition, ``From Instant to Eternity,'' from June 6 to Sept. 23 at the Seoul Museum of Art.


03-07-2007 17:40

[Corporal]