Okay so after failing once again to try and open a French Bank Account (this is possibly the hardest thing ever!) I decided to go to the Musée d'Orsay, the one major art gallery I didn't visit in April. It is also the one I wanted to see the most having studied French Visual History earlier this year in which I wrote an essay on the artist Edouard Manet who famous works are held in this gallery.
The building itself is very impressive.
I saw many fantastic pieces of art in which some of my favourites were the very vivid and dynamic Grand Formats of Corbet and the
So when I finally got to the the Galerie des impressionists on the top level of the Museum you can imagine my disappointment when I saw the sign that said that Olympia, the painting on which I did a great deal of my essay on was temporarily in Venice! Luckily I like other impressionists and I got to see Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe. I thoroughly recommend walking through the gallery whilst listening to some jazz it adds a certain something to ambience.
Talking about music and art, when in the great open white rooms surrounded by the panoramic Nymphéas, by Monet in Musée l'Orangerie, you have to listen to the start of the 3rd movement of Mahler's 4th Symphony or any utterly peaceful piece of music.
In this room I had an epiphany. One of those moments of complete resolve and inspiration. I felt like I was in a state of complete bliss and that feeling reminded me of how much I have to see and experience in Paris. I vowed to myself in that room to make the very most of my time here.
That is why I ended up going to bed at 6am when the sun rose, but that story is for another time.
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