Felipe Adan Lerma

Paris PhotoPoems Series, #6 “Monet & Renoir at the Orangerie, Paris”

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Paris : PhotoPoem # 6 : ”Monet & Renoir at the Orangerie, Paris”

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Girls at the Piano, Renoir, l’Orangerie, circa 1892

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/orangerie/renoirimage.html

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“Friends In The Same House”

the orangerie

with

curved walls built to suit

the art of monet’s last works

yet

whose best friend

renoir

also graces the walls -

how suiting

one house

one

gallery

two friends

sharing space

sharing the shared fruit of their travels

in art

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Monet, “Argenteuil” l’Orangerie, circa 1975

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http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/orangerie/monetimage.html

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dVersePoets

Prompt for OpenLinkNight # 72

hosted by claudia, with an interesting essay on travel, in the physical world, and the worlds of fantasy and poetics

“I’m thankful for every single poet who shows up here tonight and shares a bit of their journey, allows us a glimpse into their life and gives us the opportunity to travel a few miles into unknown territory and the magical world of verse.”

reading of claudia’s travels via her poems, and recently giving my wife’s and mine’s stay in paris a shot at some travel inspiration, i’d say this promises to be a prompt worth seeing what the contributing poets come up with

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Orangerie

Intro

visiting the musee de l’orangerie this time around (our first trip was over 11 years ago) was a special priority for us this time around, as last time we were here in the early 2000′s, the building was under renovation

one of my favorite spots to have visited last time, was the tuileries, so realizing we could make a short-daylight afternoon of the gardens, and then visit the place where monet’s huge late-life waterlilies were housed, was a real treat

no photos are allowed of the waterlilies canvases  but we were able to take a couple of pics of two wonderful impressionist images, one from renoir, and one from monet

Tips

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if you want discounted tickets to both the d’Orsay and the l’Orangerie, assuming you haven’t already decided to get the monster all-museum pass to most of the paris museums (which we got the first time and was well worth it), then you can get a good discount purchasing for just these two museums, which are (sorta) across the seine river from each other

the young intern with an eager approach to practicing his growing use of english, at the visitors center at the pyramides location, suggested, since we’d have to wait in the regular line to get our combo ticket (once one has a ticket, the other museum has a reservation line, ie, already purchased a ticket-line, that lets you zoom in), it would be easier to go to the l’orangerie first, which has much smaller (though active) lines than the d’orsay (which is HUGE)

it was an extremely valuable suggestion we’re grateful for

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also, if you go to the l’orangerie, before or after, to the southeast of the place de condorde, where the big spiky monument is, is a view of the eiffel tower

as you walk to the corner of the bridge over the seine, the view of the eiffel tower gets better and better, and if you cross to the east side of the bridge, the view is really grand

we still haven’t seen it at night, but i think that’s coming soon, i hope

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Final Word

and finally, i wanted to say, that though my first trip with sheila here to paris, was more than anything, to see the great paintings, esp the impressionist art, the inner city as a whole, set within the original ancient city walls circling the arrondissements, is a work of beauty all its own -

the way the trees are cut and placed, the angles of facades, the variety of both broad and narrow streets, the way people place so many flowers and even trees in planters in the windows, the cut of the clothes worn daily, it’s amazing what a culture that wants beauty around itself can do

thanks everyone

adan

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