Musee d'Orsay Gold Clock
by Joan Carroll
Title
Musee d'Orsay Gold Clock
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
It is probably one of the best repurposing of a building EVER! Turning the Gare d'Orsay (circa 1900) train station in Paris France into a museum, the Musee d'Orsay, while retaining the fabulous Beaus-Arts architecture is a triumph. In its former life, the Musee d'Orsay was a Beaux-Arts railway station opened in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. No matter where a traveler was standing in the vast hall of the Gare d'Orsay, he had no excuse for missing a train because his watch was wrong...or had stopped. This magnificent gold-framed clock dominated the great glass-and-steel atrium of the most handsome railway station in Paris. Today, it remains the highly visible signature-image of the fin-de-siecle grandeur that made the Orsay Station admired all over Europe. But by 1939, its short platforms were no longer usable for the longer trains in use at the time due to electrification, and during World War II the station became a mailing center. By 1970, it was almost slated for destruction before being saved by several cultural and artistic departments of the government. It was redesigned as a museum, which opened in 1986. It now houses Impressionistic and post-Impressionistic art, housing the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
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June 20th, 2016
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