A friend had mentioned visiting some museums after works. Most museums in Paris have one late night per week.
We chose the Pompidou modern art museum because of their soon-to-end exhibition "dreamlands".
I had never visited the place before. There is no specific reason for that except a tendancy to laziness sometimes :-). Thank you to Sophie for the suggestion since it ended being a great idea... Overall...
Even if you have never visited the French modern art museum you know what the Pompidou Center looks like. It's the huge blue and red building in the heart of the city with large plastic pipes on the side. It looks like an energy plant.
Since it was my first visit I went a little early to walk around the permanent collection.
As I wrote before the museum is dedicated to modern art. The pieces, paintings, sculptures, installations, that are displayed are at most a little over a century old.
Quick note on the national art museum :
- For very very to old and up to French empire go to the Louvre.
- For impressionsim follow the arrows to musée d'Orsay.
- For modern art starting at the beginning of the twentieth century you have Pompidou.
I did not have much time before meeting my friend so i just wandered in the hallways going where paintings were catching my eye. I walked only a few decades ;-).
I liked this (doesn't look as flat in real)
Or this
Few random thoughts as random as my visit :
I also really liked the Fernand Léger's pieces.
I was attracted and impressed by Klein's blue painting.
I was interrested to see how some artists changed their way of painting after the first world war.
I was trying to imagine men in top hats and coats or ladies in long dresses owning such pieces in their homes. Somehow the idea we have of the 1900s does not match the creativity those artists deployed then.
More on the dreamland exhibit later. Overall walking leisurely in a museum after work is great, focusing on an exhibit not as much (but good)
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