Legion of Honor Museum

• yerba buena, AMC
• Most restaurants only open past 10am
• Moscow center
• 5th street
• Hotel 964
• We are SF made banners
• Saw 6th street
• 5-7th street (This area is dead and sketchy)
• Starco mart
• SF association of the blind
• Nanay = mother in filipino
• Sightglass coffee
• 7th & Folsom St, 27 blue bus -> chinatown
• Geary, post, sutter, bush, pine
• Where is California st Starbucks? – old korean lady
• Cheonman-eyo = welcome
• Occidental board presbyterian mission house
• Clarion music center - exotic musical instruments of the world
• Choy Won Beauty Salon (8$)
• The spicy Shrimp (4156587168)
• Ju Gao dry goods store
• The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints
• sudden urge to get new balance shoes, recs are NB 990v3 / NB 990v6 / NB 993
• Take 38R bus from Chinatown to Richmond
• 2nd to 48th ave in Richmond
• Self help for the elderly
• Geary blvd & 33rd Ave, 18 blue bus -> Legion of Honor
• I need that trader joe blue and white bag
• Legion of Honor museum is a replica of The Palais de la Légion d'honneur in Paris
• free every first tuesday of the month!
• Honneur Et Patrie = Honor and Country
• El camino del mar
• Matson cargo ship
• Unidad (unity) and Solidaridad (solidarity)
• Lincoln park playground
• San Francisco high school of the arts
• George peabody school
• Mamahuhu 馬馬虎虎
• Green Apple book store
• Thornton State beach
• Marin Headlands
• Wait that’s how cable cars works? There’s a moving cable underneath and the gripmen confirms the tightness of the grip, which determines the speed
• Gonna start buying nice art books the minute once I start working and have money. or I can just visit bookstores and library everyday hmm.

Artworks

• view at Tivoli at Sunset – Claude
• Allegory of Geometry, 1649
• Vanitas 1660 (luxury is fleeting)
• Landscape with travelers and a ruin (late 18th)
• Venice, the Grand Canal Looking East with Santa Maria della Salute, 1749-1750
• Flower in a silver vase 1663, Van Aeslt
• Fishing under the ice on the Maas
• View of the falls at Vallombrosa, 1797
• A cloud and landscape study by moonlight 1822, Dahl
• The wave, Gustave Courbet
• Third class carriage, Daumier (economic inequalities of industrialized society)
• The assuaging of waters, 1840
• Waves Breaking, 1881
• Sunflowers along the Seine, 1885, Gustave
• Yoshitora Utagawa, Balloons in Flight in the United States of North America, from the series People of Foreign Lands, 1861
• Rainy seasons in the tropics 1866
• Fog over the gate 1935
• Russian hill 1945

Notes from museum

• How powerful were the catholics?
• Enlightenment (use of reason and advocate for civil liberties)
• French Revolution (monarchy -> republic)
• Rococo to Neoclassicism
• Reading artwork description and period information and translating it to chinese is a good way to test comprehension
• 他的表情画的很好
• Auguste Rodin— father of modern sculpture
• The burgher class
• Flowers open to drop seeds? Is that the only reason they open?
• Napoleon 1804
• Britain became world’s leaading power
• Egyptomania – Egyptian subjects and motifs incorporated into french art
• Romanticism, artists looking to medieval past for inspiration and depict subjects with heightened drama and emotion
• Ecole des Beaux Arts doesn’t accept women until 1897, Dubourg copies paintings at the Lourve, meets husband in the galleries
• Tea roses and Nigella
• Flower-obsessed Victorian England
• Sexual allusion—cracked pitcher signifying lost of virginity or love abandoned
• Mavourneen = Irish Gaelic term of endearment for “my beloved”
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and the Aesthetic movement emerged as reactions to the perceived mechanization and inauthenticity of contemporary art
• Sketchily brushed depiction of contemporary life
• A critic coined the term impressionism
• Renoir incorrectly dating his art for Landscape at Beaulieu with 97
• True porcelain is invented by Chinese, known as hard paste, the more fragile European imitation, fired at lower temperatures and made of other clays are known as soft paste
• Porcelain is made from firing Kaolin at high temperatures. Made from fine white clay, extremely pure aluminum silicate + pentuntse, a feldspathic rock
• Hermes – god of trade and travel
• Exposition Universelle in Paris
• Zuan-cho: design idea books