Holland : wednesday

Wednesday 10th April
Weather today	Cloudy and cold (but still no rain !). Not too bad for cycling in The Hague. The Ducth Prime Minister s office in The Hague
Activities	Today we have visited two interesting museums in The Hague. The Art Museum and the MC Escher Museum. We have seen world-famous paintings like the anatomy lesson by Rembrandt, View of Delft by Vermeer (unfortunately The Girl With the Pearl Earring is currently travelling in Japan and the US). The Anatomy Lesson of D^r Nicolaes Tulp There were lots of paintings by Piet Mondrian too. He was a pioneer in abstraction employing an irregular checkerboard drawn with black lines, and with the spaces paints mostly white or sometimes in the primary colors of blue, red and yellow. vermeer view of delft As for MC Escher everybody knows this unconventional graphic artists or at least some of his works . But if you want to know more about his work visit this website : http://www.mcescher.com/ mondrian13 Escher Belvedere 1958 Escher tesselation Lucile and Bertrand and Jeanne at the Escher Museum Daphné Agathe and Enora at the Escher Museum
Unexpected	cycling in Den Haag