1/24/11
On Saturday we went to the Musee Orsay. I saw a lot of paintings I learned about in Art 001 so it was really interesting. There was also paintings from Orentialism to feminism. There was also Van Gogh, Degas, Renoir, Manet, Monet and Cezanne. The paintings I saw were Gustave Courbet, The Artist’s Studio (L’Atelier du peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life, Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857, Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863, Paul Cézanne, Portrait of Achille Emperaire, 1868, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Dance in the Country (Aline Charigot and Paul Lhote), 1883, Vincent van Gogh, The Church at Auvers, 1890, Georges Seurat, The Circus, Gerome, Dance of the Almah, 1863, Gerome, The Slave Market, The Grand Bath at Bursa by Gerome, Jean-Léon Gérôme, “The Snake Charmer” (1883). Sunday I went to lunch for Francois birthday and that was also really nice because it was a nice suburb of Paris. We went out to eat near a chateau where Henri the 14th was born. It was really pretty and the restaurant we went to was really fancy and the food was also very French.
Happy Birthday, Francois!
The restaurant where we had dinner.
Me with Francois, Jenny and their children.
The chateau!
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This is one of many posts from my journal I wrote during my semester abroad in 2011. I will not change anything in the post unless noted here.
*Art 001 was a class I took at Penn State the semester prior to studying abroad