Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp

Oh well, let's call her Sophie. A friend of Kandinsky, Miro, Picasso, Duchamp. She lived in Strasbourg, with her husband Jean (Hans) Arp. Dada, surrealism, concrete art...

The Kandinsky room

Hi there. I could not post yesterday, Had to go to my old computer's burial. Now, I am trying to get familiarized with a french keyboard, bewilderingly weird.

Now then. Wassily Kandinsky has always been one of my top fav artists. And oh joy, he has his own room at the musée of modern art!!!

Legs as art

Many beautiful thing at the musee d'art moderne... This is one of the stranger exhibits, artist unknown (to me, anyway)

Armed women

Another rather strange graffiti...

New!

This is unique, It is the newest 'vitrail', stained-glass window, in the cathedral. There are 2 of them, will show you the other one as soon as I found a way to put a 5 meters tall window in a photo, without breaking my neck.
What's special about this one...The face is composed of photos of 150 anonymous inhabitants of our fair city. This photo were sepia-colored, and somehow transposed into glass tiles. At a cost of 200.000 euros, to celebrate the cathedral's millennium, in 2015. The picture was taken from a 15th century painting. Amazing thing.

St Laurent

An older photo, published on several websites before. The St Laurent chapel (1495-1505), used for adoration, weddings and funerals of parishioners.

Rock star!

Carrying on with my little series about, may I introduce the minstrel, the true rock star (pun intended) of his time! A bearded bard!

The pillar of angels - Le Pilier des Anges

And this is what yesterday's little jealous guy was looking at...
Et voice ce que notre jaloux d'hier regardait...

Plus d'infos ici, en francais.

The Pillar is a representation of the Last Judgement, and is situated in the south transept, just next to the astronomical clock, to which I will come back... one day.

The man on the railing - L'homme de la balustrade

Another curious figure is this man leaning on a railing. Legend says that he is an architect, jealously watching what his competitor had built.

La legende raconte qu'il s'agit d'un architecte regardant ce que son concurrent avait construit.

Is it a horse or a bird??? Cheval ou oiseau???

Well, it is a horse with bird's head!

Created by the Italian Mimmo Paladino, his head is covered with real gold. The city of Strasbourg bought it 20 years ago for 250 millions italian lire, quite a lot. 4 meters tall, it stands on the roof of the Museum of Modern Art, and is called 'Hortus Conclusus', which means 'enclosed garden'. Don't ask me why.
No, really don't.

Weird Etrange

I spotted this weird bi-headed statue the other day, in the Orangerie park, Wasn't able to find any info about it.

Cette statue bicephale se trouve a l'entree du parc de l'Orangerie. Quelqu'un aurait-il des infos a son sujet???

Illusion

Trompe-l'oeil, rue Sainte Helene

Serena, Barney, Helmut, Rose, Princesse & Gordon, la menagerie

Sometimes, it's hard for me to differentiate between a graffiti and a painting. Let us call this... art. The artist in this case is called Delphine Harrer.

Difficile de differencier graffiti and toile. Ceci est en pleine vue et rue, appelons ca de l'art, tout simplement. L'artiste s'appelle Delphine Harrer, cliquez ici pour en savoir plus.

La cathedrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg

I have a photo request! Here is for you, dear Dina!

Quai Lezay Marnesia

As I mentioned it last week, trying to have a more artistic flair for this new blog of mine. Basically, having fun! I used Adobe Lightroom 5.7, NIK and Topaz filters.

Comment mentionne il y a quelques jours, un flair un peu plus artistique pour ce nouveau blog. Bref, je m'amuse! Avec Lightroom et des filtres NIK et Topaz.

Cathedral - Cathedrale

We have a cathedral, NotreDame, Our Lady. This lady is exactly 1000 years old this year! A side chapel.

La cathedrale Notre Dame, celebrant son millenaire en 2015. Une des chapelles.

A night at the opera... Ce soir, a l'Opera du Rhin

Le programme, les taris, les horaires, sont ici 

Click here for program, prices, timetables. In French, English and German (only).

445 years and counting... 445 ans deja!

Since 1670, we have the yearly chritmas market, one of the biggest in Europe, Chrstkindlsmarik in alsatian. The city center is worth seeing, some very original decorations...

Le marche de Noel, depuis 1670, excusez du peu. Le centre ville est tres tres decore!