#2 From the Archives: PARIS Part II ~ Art and Food
Take a break! We could all use one right about now. Start your week with this virtual trip to Paris…
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First Published on August 21, 2013
Life is busy right now. One day left before we drive off to Pitzer College in Claremont, CA deliver the college freshman. In between packing and going through boxes of Kleenex, I continue revisions on the novel.
I welcome this distraction ~ a chance to keep my promise and bring you Part II of PARIS : Food & Art
Marie-Guillemine BENOIST: Portrait de Négresse, 1800 Musée du Lourvre. On my top five list.
Musée D’Orsay ~ magnificently restored Beaux-Arts train station; 19th century art. My favorite museum in Paris:
GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE, Raboteurs de parquet, 1875 VINCENT VAN GOGH, La Nuit étoilée, 1888
Starry Night Over the Rhone La Chambre de Van Gogh á Arles, 1889
[Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles]
Musée du Lourve ~ what
ALEXANDROS of ANTIOCH, Aphrodité tés Mélou, Between 130-100 BC
[Venus de Milo] JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES, Le Bain Turc, 1862
[The Turkish Bath] Ingres’ precise abstraction of the human body works for me; those necks require extra vertebrae! Quite simply: the man could draw.
Musée Rodin ~ another favorite for the statues in the gardens ~
Rue De Montorgueil 75001~ we call it The Foodie Street
They drew us in with samples out on the street ~ Our pizza was delicious, as was the wine.
The manager was a charmer from Napoli.
Mapped Neighborhood Walks, Good Eats and In The Know sidebars: I would not do Paris without this little book.
You just zipped through at break neck speed what takes this blogger HOURS (yes!) to create and publish and so…
Love it! Can’t believe that moment of last-minute preparations for heading off to the college adventure was in 2013! Time flies. Oh, my! Loved the journey through Art and Food in Paris. A treat for this much-needed break.
Writer, visual artist and oral tradition storyteller, Anita Gail was born and raised in Albany, Georgia, living in the Bay Area since 1985. As a 2018-19 Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts, she is making final revisions on her debut novel, Peach Seed Monkey. The story was a Novella semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
7.29.18 Debut Open House as 2018-19 Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts: an art installation in my studio based on scene: “Sunday Dinner” from Peach Seed Monkey, my work-in-progress novel. To view gallery: Click on photo above.
Reading
Headlands Open House: Reading “Piggly Wiggly” scene from Peach Seed Monkey.
GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE, Raboteurs de parquet, 1875
VINCENT VAN GOGH, La Nuit étoilée, 1888
La Chambre de Van Gogh á Arles, 1889
ALEXANDROS of ANTIOCH, Aphrodité tés Mélou, Between 130-100 BC
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES, Le Bain Turc, 1862
Ingres’ precise abstraction of the human body works for me; those necks require extra vertebrae! Quite simply: the man could draw.
They drew us in with samples out on the street ~ Our pizza was delicious, as was the wine.
October 29, 2018
Anita Gail Jones
2 responses to “#2 From the Archives: PARIS Part II ~ Art and Food”
Cheryl McLaughlin
October 29th, 2018 at 16:37
Love it! Can’t believe that moment of last-minute preparations for heading off to the college adventure was in 2013! Time flies. Oh, my! Loved the journey through Art and Food in Paris. A treat for this much-needed break.
Tura Franzen
October 29th, 2018 at 19:54
Thank you Anita💕🌸🍷🤳🏽Great photos