Le Petit Palais is a musee de beaux arts...which means that there's a lot of everything there. That's what I got from it. It was a very pretty building with gold doors and giant statues outside of the building. It was free to get in the museum but you still had to show them a ticket for some reason. It's just a waste of pa
per if you ask me. So we walked around and saw a lot of cool vases and then we walked into this room and there were a bunch of Courbet paintings there. He was an impressionist painter. He was pretty much a bad ass. The majority of his paintings are HUGE and awesome. I really like his paintings. He's a cool guy. There were also some impressionist artists that I had never heard of. There is usually a Monet painting there called Soleil couchant sur la Seine a lavacourt, effet d'hive http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/4127899406_36b14bdc60.jpg . Here's a picture of it if you've never seen it. It's really pretty. However, the painting wasn't at the museum, it was on loan to another museum until the end of the month. We walked around the small garden in the palais and it was really cool. There were these little ponds, but they didn't have any water in them. The picture above is of the entrance to le Petit Palais. You can see the top of the gold doors too.
per if you ask me. So we walked around and saw a lot of cool vases and then we walked into this room and there were a bunch of Courbet paintings there. He was an impressionist painter. He was pretty much a bad ass. The majority of his paintings are HUGE and awesome. I really like his paintings. He's a cool guy. There were also some impressionist artists that I had never heard of. There is usually a Monet painting there called Soleil couchant sur la Seine a lavacourt, effet d'hive http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/4127899406_36b14bdc60.jpg . Here's a picture of it if you've never seen it. It's really pretty. However, the painting wasn't at the museum, it was on loan to another museum until the end of the month. We walked around the small garden in the palais and it was really cool. There were these little ponds, but they didn't have any water in them. The picture above is of the entrance to le Petit Palais. You can see the top of the gold doors too.We left le Petit Palais and decided to check out le Grand Palais which is right across the street from le Petit Palais...how
convenient! I wasn't sure what was going to be in there but I thought why not, it'll be free. It wasn't free. I really don't know why. Granted, we only paid 2 euro so I guess it wasn't that bad. When we walked in I was really shocked. There was this giant pile of clothes in the center of the room with sections of squares on the floor throughout the room. It was really cool looking. There was this giant crane at the back of the room behind the pi
le of clothes that had a giant, red claw attached to it. The claw grabbed clothes from the top of the pile, rose in the air, and then dropped them. That was the entire exhibit. It was a modern art exhibition called Personnes. It was really cool. We seriously stood there forever looking at this claw picking up and dropping clothes. After walking around for a little while longer I left and Katie stayed to write in her notebook or something. I walked down Pont Alexandre (a huge bridge) which crosses the Seine. Les Invalides is the other end and you get nice view of the Eiffel Tower by looking right. I walked around there for a little while and then headed for the RER to come back to the apartment. The first picture is of the pile of clothes and the giant red claw. The second is from Pont Alexandre.
convenient! I wasn't sure what was going to be in there but I thought why not, it'll be free. It wasn't free. I really don't know why. Granted, we only paid 2 euro so I guess it wasn't that bad. When we walked in I was really shocked. There was this giant pile of clothes in the center of the room with sections of squares on the floor throughout the room. It was really cool looking. There was this giant crane at the back of the room behind the pi
le of clothes that had a giant, red claw attached to it. The claw grabbed clothes from the top of the pile, rose in the air, and then dropped them. That was the entire exhibit. It was a modern art exhibition called Personnes. It was really cool. We seriously stood there forever looking at this claw picking up and dropping clothes. After walking around for a little while longer I left and Katie stayed to write in her notebook or something. I walked down Pont Alexandre (a huge bridge) which crosses the Seine. Les Invalides is the other end and you get nice view of the Eiffel Tower by looking right. I walked around there for a little while and then headed for the RER to come back to the apartment. The first picture is of the pile of clothes and the giant red claw. The second is from Pont Alexandre.This morning I woke up with a really bad headache. I think it's because one of my wisdome teeth is coming it. It really hurts to bite down because my top tooth hits the gum of my bottom jaw where the tooth is coming in and it's really painful. I'm hoping it goes away. Today I planned on going to Le Musee d'Art Moderne (the modern art museum) at the Tokyo Palace. I got there and when I went in everything was under construction. The only thing that was open was this cafe and I really didn't feel like going in there and eating their over priced food. I think it will be open in two weeks, so I'll have to go back. There was another museum across the street that was a fashion museum. I thought that might be cool to check out so I walked around the entire building and couldn't find the entrance. After I walked around the block a few times, I finally found it and it was closed too!!!!! GRRRR....just my luck. It didn't say when it was going to be open again either. I walked up the road and saw this other museum called Musee Guimet. I wasn't sure what it was but I walked in anyways. Turns out it is a museum for Asian Art. Asian art really isn't my favorite thing in the world but I decided to look around for a little bit.
My tooth was starting to hurt so I left. I really don't have any plans for tonight except to watch Greys and Project runway. I'm really hoping that my tooth stops hurting. Tomorrow I want to go see Sherlock Holmes (yes, it just came out here on Wednesday) but the movies are pretty expensive on Saturdays, so we'll see. Renee won't be here for the majority of the day because she's helping a friend move or something.
I've really been getting into French music lately. However, whenever I watch the music video there are always American artists on them, which is really funny. Ke$ha has the #1 video here. It used to be Lady Gaga a few weeks ago. Here's two of my favorite French groups/singers: B.B. Brunes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV9yWozGfKQ and Christophe Mae http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-RwpnFLXI Check them out.
A bientot!
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