This image is The Gare Saint-Lazare (1877) by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet, depicting the bustling interior of a Parisian railway station.
It is part of a series of paintings focusing on the station's iron and glass structure, filled with steam from locomotives.
The work captures the modernity and industrialization of 19th-century Paris, emphasizing light, color, and motion rather than architectural detail.
Monet used thick brushstrokes and a wide variety of pigments to create a dense, sensory experience of the scene.
This iconic painting is currently exhibited at the National Gallery in London
Photo I took of the pre performance set for the stage performance of Starlight Express.
The background is a dense collage of various items, including people finding their seats or already seated, a promotional graphic for the musical Starlight Express, featuring the title text prominently displayed at the top of the large outer stage and the starting stage layout of a child’s bed, toys chest, one child’s roller boot and a collection of 3 large toy trains.
The image displays the Parthenon Sculptures, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, in a museum exhibit setting. These are a collection of classical Greek marble architectural decorations, including a frieze, metopes, and pedimental figures, originally from the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens.
Content: The sculptures depict various scenes from Greek history and mythology, such as the Panathenaic festival procession dedicated to the goddess Athena, and the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths.
Origin and Location: Created between 447 BC and 432 BC, the sculptures were brought to the UK in the early 19th century by Lord Elgin and are currently housed in the British Museum.
Visuals: The image shows numerous large, light-colored marble panels and figures mounted on dark display walls and bases, with various museum visitors and informational text visible in the background.
A photo taken by my children of the stage for the musical stage play of Wicked at the apollo Theatre in London.
The stage backdrop is a large map with a large green area in the center of the map.
This map is framed on both sides by gears and pipes making a steam punk feel with a giant dragon head, front legs and wings across the top of the stage and framing the top of the stage area, above the dragon is sail like material with a weathered and torn tattered appearance.
Absolutely knackered after a weekend in London we went to #Starlightexpress and museums while the “housemates” went to see #wicked, to a #pokemon pop up thing and other random places.
All in all we will be recovering a while but worth it.