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A Few Arts and Artists Seen around France

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At Louis Vuitton Foundation, was privileged to see this MoMA-owned work (The Red Studio, l'Atelier rouge...) as well as most ot the items Matisse painted within the work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGiFwAX9q0&list=TLGGquesD7FdOsIyNDA1MjAyNA&t=12s   At Picasso Museum I saw this work of Henri Matisse Marguerite Emilienne Matisse (1894–1982) was the artist’s eldest child, the daughter of his girlfriend and model, Camille Joblaud. Plagued with ill health, Marguerite was only six years old when she developed acute breathing problems that necessitated an emergency tracheotomy.  In the two paintings Matisse created of her, she wears a black neck ribbon to hide her scar. (source  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/492736#:~:text=Marguerite%20Emilienne%20Matisse%20(1894%E2%80%931982,that%20necessitated%20an%20emergency%20tracheotomy. ) At the Musée de la vie romantique, a special exhibit on the painter Géricault revealed his interest in horses as they were made to

Versailles!!!!

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My understanding of history is superficial at best.  It seemed to me that in French classes I'd heard that Louis XIV built Versalles out of competitiveness after he'd seen his finance minister Fouquet's Estate with a magnificent gardens, Vaux-le-Vicomte.  Perhaps the machinations of Colbert to bring about Fouquet's downfall were more a source of this inaccuracy ( https://vaux-le-vicomte.com/decouvrir/lhistoire/nicolas-fouquet/ )... My Paris family contact, well-read in French history, said the move of Louis XIV from Paris to Versailles was first a matter of security after a revolt, "La Fronde", to get out of Paris, out of the Louvre--and Louis XIV had fond childhood memories  spending time at the   Versailles   hunting Lodge (oldest part of the current palace) of his father Louis XIII. From the time Louis XIV moved there until his death in 1715, the entire place was a construction site with marble dust and scaffolding, carpenters, painters everywhere, not fini

Paris Blossoms - Few Words - Enjoy!

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Any idea what above red flowers are? Local bumblebee