When we got inside the museum, we headed to look at Paul Guillaume's famous collection of paintings. Some of the artists he collected from were Pablo Piccaso, Claude Monet, Henrie Matiesse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Andre Derain and many more artists. Some of the paintings were detailed, other were very simple.
Studying a painting by Claude MONET
Pablo Picasso - Grande Nature Morte
Pierre-Auguste RENIOR - Fraises
After we looked at the collection, we went to look at French Impressionist Claude Monet's water lilies. The waterlillies are a series of eight paintings inspired by his water garden, spread out amongst two rooms. The sizes of the paintings range from 6-17 meters!
The first room has the first four paintings, Morning, The Clouds, Green Reflections and Setting Sun.
The second room contained the other four paintings, Clear Morning with Willows, Morning With Willows, The Two Willows and Tree Reflections.
The painting's looked very beautiful. Monet used cool colors (blues, greens and purples) to paint the water lilies.
In the afternoon, we met up with Luke, Scott, Ivy and Paul for an afternoon out in Le Marais, a historic district in Paris. We walked to a park and had some lunch and a little play, then made our way across the bridge to Lle de la City, where we went to Notre Dame. Notre Dame is a famous catholic cathedral. We went inside for a look around, it was very pretty, especially the stained glass windows.
We then went back onto the streets of Paris. We said our final goodbyes to Luke and his family, then set off back to the apartment.
This is our last day in Europe before we head back to London :( Wah!!
- Posted by Alisha & Sajan
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