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| The inside of the pyramid |
I could definitely get used to the weather here. It's the heat of Singapore without the awful humidity. Anyways, today my intention was to head down to Musée D'Orsay, leaving me time to do some research before I headed to the Louvre. Unfortunately, I had abruptly change my plan when I arrived at Musée D'Orsay, and discovered it was closed. I felt so stupid - when I returned back to Fontenay sous Bois, I looked at my notes again to see, in capital letter "CLOSED MONDAYS". Anyways, I ended up heading to the Louvre. It's really amusing: as you approach the glass pyramid, you see an array of people standing on boxes doing 'egyptian hands', to get a picture of them holding the Louvre. Luckily the line to get in at 10:00 wasn't awfully long - it only took 15minutes to get inside the giant glass pyramid. Once I got through into the museum, I headed for the French paintings, getting stopped on the way by some of Michael Angelo's sculptures. In the end, after 4 1/2 hours, I only managed to cover and appreciate a meager part of the gigantic museum - about 1/4 of the French painting, some of the Italian, German, and Dutch paintings, and a few sculptures. I'd imagine it would take at least a good two weeks to see and appreciate everything. I have to say that my favourite must have been the French paintings - I found some of the messages the painting displayed summed up some of humanity's problems. I always find that the children are often the most interesting part of a painting. In scenes of war and massacre, they wear expressions of sadness or glare accusingly at the audience, questioning our actions which are so far removed from what we preach.
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| Nike! Nike! At last, seeing the Nike of Samothrace I learnt about in ROA |
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| Innocent faces |
It was a day well spent :D
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