Sorry for the little stretch of silence.. It's not that we havent been doing anything, It's just that we havent been doing as MUCH. Not to mention that for some reason, al the stuff we have seen this week, didnt allow photos...
Paris has gotten cold. Very cold. Sometimes we walk outside because it looks nice, and then 30 mins later, its grey and cold again. It comes fast and hard. It also makes it a little harder to just get out and walk around, because it has been raining off and on for the past week.
We have hit 2 exhibits since the last post. The first was at Foundation Cartier. This exhibit was 4 video installations dealing with global migration of people. The first video was interviewing small tribes of people, who were happy in their small native lands. The Second was a video just showing people in cities living their lives. The third and fourth were about people forced to leave their native land as refugees or due to natural disaster. It was actually very interesting.. Court and I were skeptical when we first heard the premise, but both came put really being glad we went.
The second exhibit we went to was actually a small museum.. the Delecroix museum. This is literally a 5 minute walk out the front door, and for whatever reason we had never gone. It was Delecroix's studio and apartment in Paris, converted into a small museum. Delecroix is most famous for this painting:
That painting wasnt at the museum... But a lot of his sketches were. He used photography to take pictures of his models to practice body composition, and they had a bunch of the photos and coinciding sketches together for the exhibit. It was actually very cool and inspiring. I bought a book that reprints all of them while I was there. In the museum, it talks about the love he had for painting "his chapel," which is inside the church st. Sulpice. He painted 3 large paintings on the walls of the church.. And since St. Sulpice is also only 5 mins away from our place, we decided to walk there and check them out as well!
Today we just walked around a bit. We are a bit museumed out! Paris feels like it has twice as many people in it today than it has since we have been here! The streets are jammed!!
Next week is our last week.. I cant believe it has already been 2 months.. We have done so much, and to us it doesnt feel like we have done enough! 4 countries, and 10 cities by my count.. not to mention countless museums and exhibits!! I think though, that we are also both looking forward to seeing our friends and families again!
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