Whoop-de-do! It's the Pompidou!

Yep, we went to see Modern Art today, of course this Modern Art has been overtaken by newer forms including Post-Modern Art. The modern art we saw at the Pompidou Center was on Level 5 and covered from 1905-1960 or so, the other levels bring the museum up to date! But--

before we left we went down to the usual fantastic place for a little breakfast--no photo because imy breakfast was the same as yesterday's-- anyway, after walking down the spiral staircase you saw the other day, I looked up and:

 Cool, huh? Art is everywhere!

It has certainly been everywhere I've visited! I've followed art through time from the Greeks and Romans to Jackson Pollack with medieval and Renaissance well represented. It has been amazing and wonderful!

Since it isn't only my feet that are tired, Jamie, Hideko and I took a cab over to the Pomp. It wasn't far, but we knew we'd be on our feet all morning. We were glad we did!  Now, let us begin.

Here it is, the very modern, modern art center of Paris--

 See Hideko and Jame?

Rick Steves describes the building as having an exo-skeleton since all the heating, cooling, plumbing, electricity, etc. are on the outside. It's a fascinating structure, you'd like it too.

So, now we're inside

and going to Level 5, the only level we visited. What visual and intellectual delights awaited!

Even before we entered the building from the escalator, we got these views:

Good ol' Sacre Coeur on her hill

and the Eiffel Tower!

They are certainly Art themselves. I am thrilled every time I see them! Really--thrilled!

A rarely seen Picasso because it has been kept in the family.  Looking at an earlier Cezanne, I can get a glimpse of how she evolved.

Here's a Chagall like I've never seen:

And, from the American section, Georgia O'Keeffe:

Her work is amazing, leaves me breathless!

 

    Vasily Kandinsky, purely abstract Expressionist

 Wow! There's our staircase!

 Sculpture--Picasso, I think--with the Eiffel Tower.

 Picasso the artist as Harlequin--alone and unfinished. The painting IS finished, of course, but an artist never is.

 An Iranian artist, whose name I havemisplaced, sorry.

From the outside viewing area of Level 5.

Of course there were many, many more works of art; it was fabulous! We had planned to see more, but our feet and brains cried, "Enough!" So we went to eat! Isn't that what any sane person does?

 Isn't she lovely? 

We enjoyed shish-kebob and couscous.

Then we made our weary way home, I napped, and Hideko and Jame visited the Centre du Monde Arabe--an educational center explaining and introducing the arabic world, which is much misunderstood. 

Finally, from our breakfast patisserie, a little snack for dinner--

As we returned, the sun shone on the church across the street--

 How cool is that?!!!

Jamie and I will be going out this evening to watch the Eiffel Tower twinkle and glow in the evening light; remember how it wasn't dark yet when we took our boat tour? We hope to see it light up at 10:00, riding the bus both ways. You'll have to wait for those pictures until tomorrow.

So, a demain!