Galerie Michael got Blogged!!

Galeire Michael was blogged by a visitor to Los Angeles this past week! Below is the excerpt from the blog on the gallery. You can also check out her blog here: http://thenewkidintownla.blogspot.com/2009/07/diamonds-lace-couture-grand-masters.html

But Galerie Michael is timeless. The one shop on Rodeo that’s hard to resist revisiting. Like a mini museum in the middle of the block, their walls are covered with classics from Rembrandt to Picasso. The list of offerings reads like a roll call of the great masters Cassatt, Cezanne, Chagall, Degas, Dali, Toulouse Lautrec, Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, Whistler… Unlike a museum though, these offerings are obtainable if one has deep enough pockets. The latest offerings are bright, colorful pieces by Alexandre Renoir, the great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Along with various oils of landscapes and flowers, he has rendered his own interpretation of some of his Great-Grandfather’s most famous pieces most notably “Luncheon of the Boating Party” demonstrating the versatility and variety of the human continence and how even the slightest alteration of expression or feature can change our entire perception of a situation or a person. His work does homage to the genius of his Great-Grandfather, dissecting the symphony of the crowd and distilling each moment, each conversation, each individual grouping into its own private universe. He demonstrates how independently they hold their own as compositions, adding to the whole but not dependent on it to tell their own story.

Unlike Picasso who leaves the impression he had a very strange and fragmented perception of women or Dali who had a very desolate and fluid interpretation of the world with strange juxtapositions and combinations of seemingly incompatible objects, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his Grandson Alexandre celebrate life in a brightly colorful and positive manner that is refreshingly happy and a pleasure to perceive. A pleasant gift to the senses that leaves one walking away with a smile. No small accomplishment in today’s world. All of them make it well worth a visit, at the very least, to Galerie Michael.