Hello folks,
We did get up and out early this morning and were first in line at the
Van Gogh Museum. We were at the head of the line, but there were a few people who got to cut in front for some reason. We did get right in and spent the entire morning seeing everything they had on the wall. It is a pretty amazing collection and there is a lot of additional information about the techniques that Van Gogh used and about the restoration efforts that are taking place. One point that they made was that the colors have shifted on some of the paintings quite a bit, the purples are now more blue. They said the light is causing the pigment to deteriorate and shift color. The paints were a new type back then, some of the first that came in a tube instead of having to be mixed by hand. The paints in the tube allowed a lot more outdoors work, but some of the first paints were not that permanent.
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| Outside the Van Gogh Museum - On the Museumplein |
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| Outside the Van Gogh Museum - On the Museumplein |
The Van Gogh Museum does not allow you to take photos, which seems kind of odd since you can take photos of the paintings by Van Gogh in the Rijksmuseum right next door. The
Rijksmuseum was in fact our very next stop. We saw a few things that we missed on Monday, but still did not cover it all.
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| The Rijksmuseum - Linda |
We started getting pretty tired, so we started going back to the room to rest, stopping at
Vondelpark on the way back. It was a beautiful sunny day, so we stayed a while, along with a lot of the folks in Amsterdam who seemed to be delighted with the sunny day.
After a rest, we went out for a walk around town, and before we knew it it was getting to be time to head home for the evening. Tomorrow we are planning to meet up with a couple of the folks that we will be with us on the Bike and Barge, and do a little sight seeing with them.
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| Evening Walk |
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| Evening Walk |
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| Evening Walk |
We hope you are all doing well,
Stephen & Linda
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