PARIS
Arrival at Charles de Gaule Airport 08:00 h
April 3, 2016
I initially flew into Pearson Airport in Toronto from London, where at AC Gate E75, to then rendezvous with Patricia and continue together on to Paris. Paris, an easy 7 hour flight including watching a Bradley Cooper movie, Chef, then eating something that I was told was chicken (but did not resemble anything chicken on the BC movie or fowl in itself) and a glass of Chardonnay. The wine helped me being able to snooze for a couple of hours before we touched ground.Arriving at Charles de Gaule, we hauled our baggage to our accommodation in Rossy and headed immediately into central Paris. It has been a couple of years since I last was in Paris. (InKyoung:) I can't help thinking how much I really love this City. I also felt a bit of unrest regarding the senseless violence of the November attack in Paris. I can't help but ponder the big question - if humankind's existence would ever develop past heretic extremism and violence. Big questions and a tired brain.
In central Paris, we had a leisurely brunch at a small sidewalk cafe where we made a new artist friend who was all about Dada - only in Paris! After we ate we proceed to go to the Pompidou Center to catch the Anselm Kiefer exhibition.
(credit: thank you Patricia)
the beauties...:)
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The Pompidou Center
About:
A national museum and multicultural complex, the Center Pompidou is government owned, subsidized by the Ministry of Culture in France. Named after Georges Pompidou, the president of France from 1969 to 1974 - who commissioned the building. It houses 2 floors dedicated to Bibliotheque of Public Information, a public library, large music library and 2 floors for the Musee Modern - which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe - work from 1905 onward and over 100,000 pieces including fauvists, cubists, surrealists, pop art and contemporary.The Pompidou's radical architecture, designed in the style of Postmodern-high-tech architecture by architects Rogers, Piano, and Franchini. The design of the building has all of it's mechanical systems exposed externally in brightly colored tubes, forming part of the external facade. This idea was to create more space internally.
Frontal facing Center Pompidou. It was very busy today. The Center is free admission and was very busy along with a steady lineup for the Kiefer works. Many various street performers. (puppeteer, musicians, fire-eaters, etc.)
[last image: Calder's Horizontal]
The Birdman - Feed the Birds outside Pompidou
Photos of the Center Pompidou:
Eiffel Tower with cranes.
Anselm Kiefer work:
Kiefer's work was amazing in both the size of his pieces and the amount. Kiefer: b. 1945 in bombed-out Germany - his work represents a ravaged country which explains his fascination with ruins. Interested in the future, he represents a view to the future while looking at the past, history and memory - which is tinged with a form of "Saturnine melancholia". The installation presented in the Forum, Steigend, steigend, since nider (in climbing, climbing towards the heights, fall into the abyss).
[works in vitrines]
more work in vitrines
Other Art, other artists:
Kandinsky
Duchamp
Magritte
Tinguely
Fontana
Giacometti
Fromanger Color Chart
A mon seul désir
the doily cacti and I
After walking off our 7 hour flight and lack of sleep, we were ready to head back to try to catch up the sleep deprivation. ahh.
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April 4, 2016
"Sleeper"
Our checkout time was 11:30 and was glad that Patricia woke up at 11:15 am. I called down and they allowed us a bit more time to get it together before check out. Tres bon! We were still lagging. We decided to check our baggage at the bell desk and hoof around the perimeter of Rossy, find a cafe for coffee and breakfast (lunch), and stay close in before we catch our flight out to Munich in the early evening.
Springtime in Paris -
pathway leads to areas of interest: miniature Eiffel Tower, workable exercise machines out on the walk path and bee hotels..
so long Paris - onward to Bavaria!
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An entertaining read on Paris by David Sedarias
Me Talk Pretty:
http://www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/Me%20Talk%20Pretty%20One%20Day%20by%20Sedaris.pdf
other DS Paris short story:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/18/in-the-waiting-room-2
Steve Martin: I Would like to buy a Hamburger!
literary review of Paris attack (Chomsky):
On violence and Society
Pierre Bourdieu:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-26616-6_17
Sartre:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/
Rene Girard:
http://www.jeramyt.org/papers/girard.html
de Beauvoir:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/
Edith Piaf:
