Paris last days, part 2 - Reflections on Art

If one turns to the other side of the Petite Palaise you can go see the museums permanent exhibitions.

The grande Sarah Bernard ! - As I was walking through all these ...

.... beautiful images. I started thinking about who gets to define beauty and ...

... what/who is beautiful ...

The more I saw ( and let it be noted that I love history and museums ! ) ...

... the clearer it became ( not that I didn't know this before ) that ...

... those in power always dictates what is "wrong" or "right", which of course history teaches us is not the same as it being so ...

... and for the rest is left to be portrayed and described according to "the norm" ...

Beauty is therefore, more or less, defined in terms of certain features...

...or body sizes...

...or how your hair blows in the wind or maybe not ...

But what is beauty ? What makes a face beautiful ?

Or for that matter, ugly ?

From ancient days we have tried to beautify ourselves - The little box above is a mouche box.

We've tried to set standards for beauty, be it a face or a painting. The following painters work was at one time considered "hideous", "undignified" or just plain ugly. Not so today. Today this painting is part of our cultural history, a celebrated piece of art and worth millions of euros...

Claude Monet

These were a few of my thoughts as I wandered through the collections ...

It always amazes me the patience one must have to paint ... There were many great partings in the museum. Like this one ...

An amazing painting that comes in three parts.

This being the mid-section.

And this the final one. I just kept going back and forth looking at all the details.

Le Petite Palaise was so beautiful !

And it seemed to be very popular. But as I was taking it all in I saw in the corner of my eye...
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A group of children headed somewhere. I decided to follow them and see what they were going to look at.

Turns out there was a children's exhibition downstairs!


Look at all the creativity!


Trés chic !


I truly believe that art, in any form ...


... can transform lives...


...especially children.


A future Picasso?

Children displaying their art objects. :)

A last note on beauty :

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves - YSL