Gemeente Museum

  

 A good breakfast the next day and a tram ride to the modern art museum in the Hague which has a Geneetemuseum (G-name that I can neither spell nor pronounce) which was again, expensive, but John loves Modern Art and there are a couple of Monets, 

 Mondrians, etc that Hesther said was a must see.  So, we go and they have an exhibition of light that’s like Art Prize in Grand Rapids.  Everyone submits a composition in all different mediums around the theme of light and then people get to vote on their 

tickets for their favorites and the goods are for sale with a lot of them already sold.  If any of the ones that John and I had really liked had been in a suitable price range, it would have been bought, but, of course, they weren’t.  I was totally taken with a fiber artist that John Ross would be proud to see charging some serious money for her work.  There was painted canvas, but then highlights were embroidered and looked awesome.  There were great photos, paintings, fiber work, sculpture, but the cake stealer, 

was a take on Leonardo’s Last Supper with Jesus and the Apostles doing dishes.  Too bad it was over 6000 euro.  We cast our vote and were hopeful about the rest of the museum after seeing that as the exhibit.  They had a large photo gallery with a modern Venus of Urbino/ Olympia homage with a woman spread open and looking at the viewer as if to say that the others hinted at this, but I’m for real and that was interesting, but too graphic to post or even take a picture of for that matter.  Then on to the impressionism 

room where John and I stood alone for about 20 minutes with probably over 60 million dollars worth of great art from our favorites.  No one there and we got to just soak it in.  That room was worth the price of admission with the exhibit, so now it’s just icing with tapestries, Delftware, silver,

and a time line of Mondrian’s work including his views of Zeeland province where we are currently staying.  All in all a good trip and more inclusive than the Mauritshuis.  If you combined their older masterpieces with this museum, you would have a world class museum.