When finally rolled out of bed yesterday afternoon I headed to the Rodin Museum. Though his works can be found all over the world, this building housed so many that I was reminded of my front room which is housing quite a few of Quintyn's paintings. I wondered if when he gets famous can I open my front room up and charge a buck or two for people to come in and gawk? I could even have a small gift shop and sell some of the kid's old junk or maybe pieces of his hair. I'd make a killing.
I like Rodin's work but I equally liked the architecture of the building housing the works. The building is the former Hotel Biron and it's beautiful. I've always loved the detail of wood in old buildings. I also really like when the wall is decorated with stencils or pictures. He was an erotic kind of artist. I took about 10 pictures of "The Kiss". One funny part about being in the museum when I was is that a school tour was going through - 5th or 6th graders maybe. Let's just say some of the boys looked a little uncomfortable. There were also two van Gogh's and since they were my first ones here in Paris I was hap, hap, happy.
Looking at a few of the works I knew for sure I'd seen them before but turns out he, and other artists made several versions of the same scene, etc. I suppose I knew that but for some reason it never really clicked. So, it's like you can go crazy for version #2 but #4 is the one worth millions more. That part I don't get.
Next it was L'Orangerie just so I could say that I've seen the 8 huge Monet's and to stalk another place from the movie "Midnight in Paris". So, I saw these big canvases Monet did and yeah, yeah, they were pretty. But the best part was Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse. Oh my gosh, I can't believe how much I like Matisse.
My last place to visit was the Orsey Museum. This one is full of everything but I was too pooped to care about much more than the HOLY CRAP THERE ARE A COUPLE DOZEN vAN GOGH's HERE!!!!! Well, I suddenly had some pep back and I was on a mission to see the van Gogh's. Disappointed I was not. Other artists include Toulous-Lautrec, Renoir, Gaugain, Renoir, Monet and Manet. The Louvre is a warehouse compared to this place. Unfortunately they don't allow pictures and the few times I only thought of sneaking out my camera a guard seemed to pop out of nowhere. I'll give you this picture though. It's from Wednesday when I was near the Pantheon.
Before I end I must point out how much I love technology - most especially digital cameras. I remember getting my first 110 when I was 10 years old or so and going to town taking pictures with that thing. Problem was that we didn't have much money when I was a kid so since my mom had already spent money on the camera it took a while before she could shell out the money to get the film developed and then more time before I could get more film. And it would be so disappointing to find that half to most of the pictures were bad, blurry or just blank. With my digital I can take several shots of the same thing, see right away if the picture needs to be deleted and I can take hundreds upon hundreds of pictures as long as the battery holds out. I have two batteries thanks to that one time I left my battery charging in the hotel and had to buy a new one while out and about in New Orleans. I also like having people in my pictures. Seeing the way people dress historically is awesome and it adds more to the picture of the building, statue etc...not the paintings. People need to get out of my way for pictures of paintings.
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