An afternoon at the museum

"Apart from mocking the elderly, there's no finer way to spend an afternoon than in an art gallery…"

"Yeah I know! Stop repeating everything I say!"

The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil

I've already shown you some artwork from that card game I play (Magic—The Gathering). This time, I'd like you to take a look on this lovely picture, drawn by Kev Walker, a brillant British artist. This illustration isn't to be found on a card, yet. It's used on two boxes in which you can sort your cards, those two boxes being part of the Tenth Edition Fat Pack. That's, basically, a fat pack in which you get those two boxes + 6 booster packs (75 cards in total) + a 20-sided dice + a book about the game.

This painting depicts the eternal struggle between good and evil throughout magic; the fight opposes three beautiful angels to some demon from the Pit. I like it because it has such a dynamism to it that I'm wordless. And I've never been disappointed with Mr. Walker's paintings.

Whistler's Mother

"Whistler's Mother" or, as it reads on the picture in the Musée d'Orsay, "Portrait de la mère de l'artiste", by James Whistler. This painting was made famous the catastrophical movie "Bean", where our favourite Brit destroy the painting and tries to replace it… by a poster… (This film is one of my favourites.) In the French version, Bean says: "C'est le portrait d'une vieille peau, d'un débris, qu'il aima par dessus tout"… Brillant!

Visite du Louvre (April 2005)

When I was at secondary school, 5th year, we all went to Paris as a cultural trip of three days. On the first day, we went to the Louvre to see the most famous items of the collection, including the Venus of Milo, Samothrace's Victory, the Mona Lisa, the "Radeau de la Méduse" and also "La Liberté guidant le peuple" by Eugène Delacroix, where you see this allegory of France personified as Marianne, who leads the people (and Eugène Delacroix—hidden self-portrait) half-naked with the "bleu-blanc-rouge" flag. On that third picture, you can see one of my favourite teachers, namely M. Christian Jacquet, with whom I studied Latin during three years.

Pierre Istace, RTBF Journalist

Pierre Istace is my favourite journalist. He's got such a voice! Unfortunately, he's gone and retired now, but sometimes reappears to make a report of a new painting or sculpture exhibition. In fact, his main domains of investigation were finance, economy and arts (especially paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries).
Here again, we can see him in Rome after the pope's death. It was one of his last great reportages abroad.
Note that he wears a red jacket provided by the RTBF. He was also a union representative for the FGTB (socialist union).