View of MAMAC from Place Garibaldi.

View of MAMAC from the other side of the building.

Street level view from inside the round outdoor courtyard of MAMAC, looking up at a current installation (orange and white wooden structure)>

View from the roof of MAMAC. The Acropolis is the convention center. See the large grey square? Notice it is sitting on a neck and shoulders? That is by the sculptor Sacha Sosno: “the ‘Square Head’ is the key symbol of the city’s contemporary architecture…this monument-sculpture is not open to the public and houses the offices of the Louis Nucera municipal library.” I didn’t go into this area on Tuesday, but plan to return another day.

View from the roof looking down into the round interior courtyard.

View of Nice from the roof of MAMAC.

Walkway to the rooftop garden.

If you know who this is, I think you might find this as funny as I do. So kitschy and yet not. The woman is Louise Bourgeoise and the guy in the back is Andy Warhol. I won’t show you all the photos, but elsewhere in the garden Pablo Picasso is mowing the lawn, Vincent Van Gogh is sowing seeds, and Georgia O’Keefe is picking flowers. Fun! Also, isn’t it serendipitous that that dry leave just happens to be hanging over Louise’s head in this photo? I think the photo would be less effective without it.

I’ll show you some interesting patterns, shadows, and combinations of the two. Here: pattern, and my foot on the roof of MAMAC. Check out the absence of color. How would this photo change if I were wearing violet pants and/or red shoes?

Physical pattern and shadow pattern.

Pattern. I didn’t realize I was getting that shadow in the foreground. I feel that, at best, it adds nothing, and, at worst, that it harms the photos.

Pattern playing second fiddle to shadow. No one with me to take a photo of me, so this will have to do.

Pattern? Shadow? Light? The addition of color?

Same stairway, different angle. All of these photos are taken at MAMAC. The architecture was as interesting as the art.

Lots of inspiration for collage in their permanent collection. I’ll show you some of it. Here is a dress made of plastic bottles.

Detail of bottle dress.

I didn’t get the names of all the artists. This is constructed of pieces of canvas and just tacked up on the wall rather than framed.

Yves Klein’s foot! The theme of feet keeps jumping up in unexpected places!!

Can you guess who did this? Niki de St. Phalle (did I spell that right?) There are numerous collage works by her at MAMAC.

This is hers, too. I am mostly familiar with her colorful, playful work. This is colorless and rather grim. I have a new appreciation for her work, now that I’ve seen more of it.

Jan McLean, this one’s for you.

3-D collage.

Well, Jan, I guess this one’s for you, too. Collage with torn layers.

Ah, there are so many I could show you, but I’ll make this the last one, then I’ll go on to some works from the special exhibit based on the influence of Matisse on other artists. This one is fabric draped within a plexiglass box. Such a variety of approaches to collage at this museum.

The current special exhibit at MAMAC exhibits the works of several artists who have been influenced by Matisse’s work. This collage is based on a sculpture by Matisse.

Another work based on Matisse’s work. I’m not going to name all the artists, but I have the info on most of these if anyone wants it.

Some of these “Matisse-inspired” works are paintings – but do they have a collage influence/feel?

Painting influenced by Matisse. What is this artist doing with this influence? The topic explored by this exhibit deserves more discussion than I have time for right now in this blog. Hey students – here’s a good topic for one of our workshops.

A subtle use of collage. These didn’t photograph well, so I’m not sure you can see it. But this will be intriguing to discuss with the workshop group when we visit MAMAC.

And I couldn’t resist showing you just one more. Now we will leave MOMAC (so much more to see than I showed you!) and move on to some photos of Place Garibaldi.

Place Garibaldi is a large plaza with restaurants and cafes with outdoor seating all around its perimeter, and this statue of some historic someone or other in the middle – probably Garibaldi…ya think?

The tram runs through it, but somehow that doesn’t disturb the pedestrian feel of the place. Traffic is somehow different here, but I’ll have to give that more thought – I’m not sure what I mean.

I’m thinking that when the Nice Workshop group visits MAMAC we will also spend some time in Place Garibaldi – eating, drinking, making art.