—Lucien Freud
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The Lucien Freud exhibition ends at the Pompidou on Monday, so I busted my bum to get there today. I didn’t know much about the British painter except that both Mel and Jerem had raved about the exhibition and I knew I would like his fierce brushstrokes. I was happy to see it: jarring and intense, it shows that art doesn’t have to be pretty to be appreciated.
But mostly I wanted an excuse to visit the Pompidou.
To go up, up, up, the tubular escalator, watching the tourists watching the mime below get smaller and smaller.
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And then take in the view. The Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur…
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…plus l’Eglise Sainte-Eustache with La Defense off in the distance.
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And then to come outside with the bright blue skies of a fine summer day in front of me.
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Your descriptions of the Pompidou were the only reasons we ever went back there : )
ReplyDeleteFreud is amazing .. makes me worry about how I will look naked someday ..