Amsterdam VI

Street sculpture. The trees have eyes with really big lenses.

This is in The Hague. A most bizarre and ornate fountain. They look like greyhounds being treated badly. This town does not look like it would be a fun place to hang out. You can tell that there is some official goverment stuff there. There is a museum called Mauritshuis that we visited that was amazing. Lots of amazing Masters paintings. Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring is here as well as 2 city scenes that he did that were so different from what we usually see of Vermeer's work, but then so in his style. They were among my favorite pieces. We saw 'The Milkmaid' at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and that brought tears to my eyes - so amazing to see the original. It is a very small piece and yet so powerful.

OK -so this is some moderny art. It was supposed to be a dress (it was in a photography museum, but ...). They say that the Netherlanders are amongst the tallest people in Europe...(yes, that is me standing behind the dress).

Ah, yes, another form of modern art that seems to be ubiquitous in Amsterdam and here in Oslo as well. Some is quite well done, but it bothers me nonetheless.