This post is taken from my French travel journal and my trip through Southern France in April 2018. For some reason my iPad and Blog were not communicating at the time so I was unable to write any posts. At home I am able to blog "post" travel! Thanks for joining me on the journey!
It was threatening to rain today so I figured that it would be a great day to spend indoors at the Musee d'Orsay but so did a thousand other people.......and this was the "no wait" line for those who already had a museum pass!
But once inside I was rewarded with beautiful art to warm my soul and stimulate my creative juices.....this is a detail from Le Pont d'Argenteuil by Monet.
Mary Cassatt's "Jeune femme cousant dans un jardin"....sigh....
And detail from Monet's "En norvegienne, dit aussi La Barque a Giverney".....enjoying the yummy colors in the sunshine!
Renoir's painting of "Jeune femme a la voilette".....just look at the softness of the veil covering her face.....
Close detail from Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Mademoiselle Gachet dans son jardin a Auvers-sur-Oise"
There is nothing like seeing the real deal - the colors and the brush strokes - there is energy here!
"Les Roulettes, campement de bohemiens aux environs d 'Arles" also by Van Gogh
And beautiful detail from Edouard Vuillard's "Le dejeuner en famille"
Garish and amazing quick gesture drawing by Toulouse-Lautrec painted on pieced canvases - once again you can just feel the energy radiating off the canvas.
And I will leave you with a sweet intimate moment in a detail from "Le bal de l'Opera" by Henri Gervex.
In the evening we dined at Le Recamier and enjoyed the best of souffles as well as fun waiters! Mr. B's first time there.....can you tell that he loved it?
"Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time."
--Thomas Merton
PS - My apologies for misquoting John Lennon on yesterdays quote:
It should of read "Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars and the sun."
Corrected by my brilliant and sweet husband Mr. B!
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