20100102 Dreams and Reality: Masterpieces of Painting, Drawing and Photography from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris

看了这美术展览感想是新加坡的艺术观念有待改善。灯光一样打得很差，很多画作因为灯光打得不好，影响了欣赏的乐趣与耐性。画作的编排就像新加坡的美食“罗惹”（Rojak）一样，暴发户似的以各种主题的方式，想把很多的内容和艺术家安插在其中，结果没有从时间或者画家或者风格为重点，看了觉得很混乱。当然，也有可能我的艺术知识和鉴赏能力比较差，我和太太到最后印象深刻的反而是几幅风格简单的画作。

因为参观当天是免费入场，很多画作变成游客“到此一游”的景点背景。新加坡的艺术基础教育和艺术基本鉴赏，比起先进的国家差了一大截。

最后最不解的是，为什么国家博物院要和新加坡美术博物馆抢生意，主办美术展览，难道定位为展出历史文物的博物馆已经没有其他主题可以发挥了吗？

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From the collection of the world renowned Musée d’Orsay, over 140 Salon, Realists, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists paintings, photographs and drawings from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century will specially tour to Singapore this year. Titled Dreams and Reality: Masterpieces of Painting, Drawing and Photography from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the exhibition explores the reaction of man towards modernity at the turn of the century from 1848 to 1912. The changing social and industrial landscapes of Paris in early modernity forced artists and photographers to rethink their approach to the visual world around them. Their varied responses generated new ways of depicting reality and a proliferation of styles.

Highlights of the exhibition include Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players, Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night and Alexandre Cabanel’s The Birth of Venus. Many other key works by forerunners of modern art such as Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Jean-François Millet as well as female Impressionists Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond and Eva Gonzalès will also be showcased. A portrait of Georges Clemenceau by Édouard Manet will travel exclusively to Singapore.

extracted from Singapore National Museum
http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?id=65&cat=2#INTRO