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Archive for February, 2007

Vanishing point

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Musée du Quai Branly.
A hundred meters long slow slope pathway leeds to the entrance of the exhibit.
There was only two people early in the morning…

 

4 comments February 25th, 2007

Rainbow over the Invalides

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Dark sky and rainbows are common in Paris, in february or march. It means that spring will be back soon.
Here is one above the Invalides, the place where Napoleon Bonaparte is buried.

 

9 comments February 11th, 2007

The Bateau-Lavoir

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The name of the place, the “Bateau-Lavoir”, means the laundry-boat because it looked like boats of laundry women floating on the Seine.

It’s a buildings in Montmartre. A group of artists lived there at the beginning of the 20th century. After the WWI, they started to move mainly to Montparnasse.

Indisputably the most famous resident of the place was Pablo Picasso (1904-1909) where he lived with his dog Frika. He reputedly invented cubism there and painted one of his finest works Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

Other well-known artists lived in the Bateau-Lavoir:
Max Jacob, Amedeo Modigliani, Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse and Jean Cocteau.

The building were destroyed by a fire in 1970 and rebuild shortly after.

 

6 comments February 4th, 2007