March 27, 2011
March 25, 2011
Mahler´s Paris
Allthough I was visiting Musée d´Orsay in Paris last year, I was going there once again this time.
Bedächtig.
And that was for many reasons, but I am sooo glad I did it!!! The whole museum was new organised, with some new exhibitions and my feelings were just others than at my first time. This time, taking pictures was forbidden, so in fact I enjoyed the art more. I saw some ladies, who were imitating famous impressionist pictures (and they were pretty good at it!). I told myself - when I will be old and retired, I must also paint in some gallery or art museum! So I wrote some names of paintings from Monet, Cézanne, Klimt, Maillol and others that I think I could imitate and then I will start with trying my own works. This bring me to the idea - but I have to improve myself and practise! I was attending painting classes during my stay in Denmark and I think I did some cute works because of permanent improving and practising. Suddenly I began to miss painting and trying these new techniques. I am just addicted to be creative, so tommorow when I will come to my place in Banska Bystrica, I will continue with painting on wood I just started short time ago...And if I will have some permanent job, I just have to attend painting classes in the evenings..Maybe in Berlin, Copenhagen, Bratislava, Viennna, doesn´t matter :)
But back to the Musée d´Orsay!
First of all, to make things clear, I am not a particular fan of classical music, not at all... But when I went through this spectacular exhibition listening to Mahler´s music and at the same time watching the pictures of Gustav Klimt I felt some kind of catharsis. I love Vienna, Austria, I enjoyed looking at the postcard of Villa Mahler am Wörthersee at this exhibition so much! All of a sudden, I wasn´t in Musée d´Orsay in Paris, but in totally other space - I was exploring austrian beautiful nature of Alps, their lakes and broad landscapes... (I was once travelling in Austrian Alps and I can definetely say it was one of my very best beginning of travelling abroad to unknown places with close person). What I wanted to say is that the GUSTAV MAHLER exhibition prepared me also for starting to explore the classical music.
This kind of music means to me some kind of getting closer to german and austrian culture, since I can not speak German so well as I used to. Especially, I also prefer more German composers like Beethoven or Schuman than the others (maybe the Russians, too:) So this Friday was "my Mahler´s day". I was listening to his symphonies and seeing me back in the airplane, where I was few hours ago having a long look at the neverending beauty of Alps mountains.
Just enjoy with me listening to the Mahler´s "Das Lied von der Erde" - The song of the earth or read about it more just here.
Ewig ewig ewig - keit...mystical idea? Now more then ever..
Bedächtig.Nicht eilen.
Recht gemächlich.
In gemächliche Bewegung.
Ohne Hast.
Ruhevoll.
Das himmlische Leben.
Sehr beheglich.
March 24, 2011
Very French - How I kissed Simone´s tomb
Montparnasse cemetery in Paris - another place that tourists are usualy not visiting. But we made an exception and went for kissing!! The kissing wasn´t so ordinary, because we played a little role play. With putting some red lipstick (like all the Paris women do) I gave a big kiss at the tomb of my favourite Paris locals :P
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre :) Díky kámovia!
Very French - Le rendez vous des amis
Let me continue with few pictures from another place. A friend of my friend Erika recommended us to visit this shitty, but very nice and cozy place near Sacre Coeur. We drank there 10ml of "un café créme" and smell the joint of marijuana in the air...
Enjoy...
Check out the street art! As in first pictures, we found the grinning cat also tagged in other places. As I found later on the internet, this cartoon creature is smiling over the walls from all over the world, not only Paris. This globe-trotting cat comes from "Mister Cat" - real named Thoma Vuille (more about him and his work read at this page).
Very French - Little Napoleon :)
After coming back from Paris I am just having a look at all the pictures I took.
I can leave eye on this one all day long!
In my opinion, it shows all the french creatures you can imagine and it is just so cute at the same time. I took this moment photo when we were at Bastille place (where some french youngsters practised their skateboarding :) near the new Parisian opera building. We were looking at the way to the Promenade de Plantée (the most beautiful walking you can do during visiting Paris in spring... and as I like - a place that not too many tourists are used to visit).
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