make art 🎨 🩷 with my aunt - who carved wonderful woodcuts, and made prints in B&W, and multi colors, amongst her most vivid works. She also did etchings, drawings, pastels, and small run children's books.
It was this sweet village, which I never did walk around in. We did walk out the first day into the edge of the woods north of there. They were in western Switzerland by the Jura Mountains near the French border.
They moved from The States bc of his work for The WHO to Geneva for decades, then retired to this village.
They had this wonderful house filled with art, and crafted objects, with the coolest attic converted into extra bedrooms, and living room! Had a balcony, too!
But because I'd expressed an idea of myself taking a day trip by train to Paris, instead she took me, and a granddaughter to Paris for 4 days/3 nights! Paris is a city I'd wanted to visit.
Well, we went to The Lourve the evening after we arrived around noon by train, and settled into our hotel.
I think we went twice bc I remember sitting outside w her in the afternoon not too far from the entrance.
Well, we walked, and walked. Since she had Parkinsons; for a long trek like this she used a wheelchair which my cousin pushed. I volunteered, and my cuz finally let me help.
Bc she was in the wheelchair they let us go up close to the Mona Lisa in front of the roped off visitors. I'd seen it decades earlier when it was loaned to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I was more excited to see these wonderful landscape paintings by artists I'd never heard of, but didn't write down their names. Der!
And then we came into the big hall where as we entered in the center of the back wall near us was...
The Winged Victory!.
Oh, my goodness: she was *glorious* !!
We also went to the Musée de Orsay. Saw the cathedral, and haystack Monet paintings, ?Degas, ?Bonards, and was Van Gogh's Starry Night there?
Finally, we went to The L'Orangerie, which I had no idea existed! Swoon!
We stayed so long, and were very lucky there was only a modest amount of people. It was easy to see the paintings. First I walked by all of them, then later sat for a long time.
We went into the little room after the first big room, when I found out there was a second room with more waterlilly paintings! Then came back to the first room.
The oval rooms were an amazing way to display these visual treasures!
What an adventure!
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