yesterday was low key. after looking for a certain hookah bar that never appeared we settled on a wine bar 3 minutes from our dorm but had somehow never seen. 2.50 euro for chardonnay and they played good wine-drinking music... if that makes sense?
today i woke up a little earlier to go to the bakery i'd been wanting to try (also a 3 minute walk from my dorm... what am i doing here?) and it was so excellent. the beignet's had just enough sugar to make them sweet and cooked so that they were soft but not doughy. raspberry jam on the inside sealed the deal.
after class i headed for the musée rodin. i didn't know what to expect, but i really liked seeing picasso's single-artist concentrated museum so i wanted to check this out. the facility was beautiful... if i knew more about architecture i would tell you what century this building came from but all i can tell you is that it's not from this one... it's feels like your wandering around someone's mansion and huge walking gardens.
the works there include the thinker and la porte d'enfer (a portion of which i pictured to the right)... really wishing i could upload pictures from my phone right now :(
i've alwasy been a big fan of rodin... his sculptures look like they're hurling at you and when they're more violent it looks like they're being thrust out of water or something.
they had a bunch of his smaller works i had never seen. he did a whole study on dancers that i personally enjoyed. the way they were sculpted they had to be suspended by prongs so it looks like they were dancing on air.
TONIGHT we going to a fondue place... restaurant review to follow :)
Amazing! That sculpture is incredible. Something remarkable. Rodin Museum was Annie Brownstein's favorite place in Paris when she spent a semester there.
ReplyDeleteAh I love this sculpture! I've never seen it in person, but we studied it in class, and it's amazing. I'm also a big fan of Rodin. I'm so jealous of your life right now!
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