Trip Downtown: Museum of Fine Arts

Work won't start for hopefully another few days and I've been out for summer break for about a week and a half, so as you can guess, I've got loads of free time on my hands. Legally, I'm not quite old enough to partake in Thirsty Thursdays, however, I'm more than happy to participate in free admission to The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston of course). I don't think I've set foot into a state funded gallery since I was a child, and since I love to make myself seem way more intellectual than I actually am, I figured this'd be a good a time as any to actually turn myself into that cultured young soul that I strive to be (aN pLu$, d@ gUrLz luV 1+). 

Honestly, I wish you were there to see some of these paintings, because I don't think any camera is capable of doing any of these depictions justice. To be able to see the brushstrokes and the color of the paint as it ages due to time is just mind boggling, and to see the size, and how massive some of the works ended up being in real life is just...intense. There were a few times that I actually ended up getting "reprimanded," and I even snagged a few shot of some works that I wasn't supposed to (PRIVATE COLLECTIONS), but it's all in the name of art right? Ironic enough, the final time I get caught doing something I'm not supposed to be doing, just so happens to be the one time a picture is taken with me in the frame and I have no clue what the title of the painting is, it's my favorite. If anyone has any idea, feel free to let me know, I'm dying over here.
   

Fernand Leger - Man with a Cane

Pablo Picasso - Two Women in Front of a Window

Emile Schuffenecker - Portrait of Emile Bernard

Charles Angrand - The Harvesters

Paul Signac - The Bonaventure Pine

Felix Vallotton - Woman Writing in an Interior

Roger de La Fresnaye - The Fourteenth of July

Henri Rousseau - The Eiffel Tower

Gustave Caillebotte - The Orange Trees

Jan van Huysam - Still Life of Flowers and Fruit

Cristoforo Munari - Still Life with Musical Instruments

Alessandro Magnasco/Antonio Francesco Peruzzini - Workshippers at a Shrine in a Mountainous Landscape

Claudio Coello - Saint Michael the Archangel

Ernst Matthai - Venus

Anton Raphael Mengs - Truth

Canaletto - The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice

Simon Vouet - Saint Sebastian 

Since there are a number of museums who serve the general public with free Thursday admission, I figured it'd be nice to visit a gallery once a week, or at least twice a month. No harm in that now is it. Swag.