After class, I went by myself to visit Musee d'Orsay. With little hype compared to the Louvre, I didn't know very much about it. After waiting in line for a while, I realized I didn't have to because I'm a student with a pass. After a few minutes trying to figure out the horrible map, I decided to forget it and just wander around. So I started off in the big main area. The building used to be a train station, so on the wall above my head was a HUGE highly decorated clock. Walking around the main area, there were a lot of sculptures, many by Rodin which I'd seen at the Rodin museum anyway--so that was a fast part. There weren't many people here at all compared to the Louve. Considering there are more famous paintings here by more of the famous artists, I was quite suprised. I was just looking around a room with some cool paintings, by guys I'd never heard of when I saw my first Monet painting. It was really weird and exciting to actually see something in person I'd only read about and been taught about in art class back in midddle school. There was a fairly good sized cut-away model of the paris Opera House (where the Phantom of the Opera lives). Which it was a good thing I took time to look at it because that was the one thing I didn't ever get to see in Paris (arrrg!) It was always closed.
There was the actual drawing done by Eiffel of the planning of the tower. I liked the paintings here much better than the Louve.
Later I walked into a room of just Monet. It made my heart beat fast just to actually be standing right next to these really famous, really amazing paintings.
Then I walked into the next room. Van Gogh! I absolutely loved this room.
After spending several minutes just looking at them, almost in disbelief of what I was actually seeing, I moved on and saw some huge toulouse latrec paintings. Unbelievable. Down the hall there were lowly lit rooms with pastels and watercolors, which were interesting. There were also some pointalism.
Afterwards, I met up with the other at, what was becoming 'our' bar, Kilty's. We sat outside and met locals passing by. Fun people they are. We saw this guy walking around in a red dress, heals, and a blonde wig. He was walking around with a few other guys who were all laughing at him. A couple of the girls went over and found out that it was his bachelor party. Quite funny hazing!
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