A Few Arts and Artists Seen around France

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 work for men in battle, and in observing and representing in their eyes their emotion.  Unbeknownst to me, he was a pacifist, one who had observed the horrors of war in the Napoleonic era, and he paints horses showing more emotion than do his men.

This portrait of George Sand is in the permanent collection of the Musée de la Vie Romantique, labeled as a rare picture of her not dressed in masculine fashion.

Theater artist Molière at the Théâtre de la Comédie Française - Standing in line for checp tix to Les Fourberies de Scapin, chair where Molière said to have died after last performing in Le malade imaginaire, interior of theater, and virtual subtitle glasses on Rod and me, offered for free and useful for following the text.

Carnival art -- With 20 other visitors, I pedaled until I didn't an infernally fast and dizzying bicycle carrousel from the late 1800's... the visit to the Museum of Carnival Arts was very participatory, including riding a carrousel and racing horses by rollling balls into holes!

Outdoor fountain art:  Fountain of the 4 Continents on the left bank:

Playground art--a very long tube slide down to the next level of the park!

Art of zee Haute (?) Couture / Publicité--watch for it later!

Department Store Art (Samaritaine, restored by Louis Vuitton)

Found Art-- result of a rainy, cold day in Paris,,,,