Beanie Mouse: Musee Marmottan Monet

Monday, 9 June 2014

Movie Review - "Nympheas - Le Grand Reve de Monet"

Movie review number 25

PLOT

This is a documentary DVD that I purchased at the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris during my trip in May 2014. It is a French production but with the voice-over in English as well as French. It explains the process of the production of the Water Lily series of paintings done by Monet in his house at Giverny from 1899 to 1927. It explains the interesting friendship between M. Clemenceau, politician, and Monet, and how Clemenceau helped find museum space for several enormous murals of waterlilies - now being at the Orangerie Museum in the Tuileries in Paris - which are floor to ceiling paintings with no horizon on them!! Apparently when viewing them, it's almost like you're IN the waterlily pond swimming around!! The DVD mainly concentrates on Monet's later life, in his 70s.

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It's a very interesting DVD and definitely worth watching for the art history!

SCORE

Beanie gives this 7 squeaks out of 10. The music background is slightly annoying!

SCOOBY SNACKS
Salade Nicoise

Friday, 23 May 2014

Beanie's Big Holiday, Day 6

Today, we had more real coffee for breakfast!!

With Brioche and jam!! That's a really nice breakfast you know!

Then off to the Metro into town!

We got off here, at La Muette!

And then followed the signpost for the Marmottan Monet museum!!

We walked through some very pretty parks and gardens.

And then we arrived!!!

Musee Marmottan Monet. There was a long queue outside and it took about an hour to get in but we're both glad we did. There was a lovely "En Prive Impressionist" exhibition on which was super busy, but then downstairs in the basement there was a big exhibition with all of Monet's water lily paintings! That was fab!
After that, we spent some money in the gift shop.

And then wandered off back to the Metro stop.....

Past this very fabulous (and rather expensive!!) seafood restaurant!

And we're off.....!

Before we came out the other end we saw a group of buskers singing songs! That was fun!

We got off at Chatelet!

And walked down to the Palais de Justice on the river.

With a very fancy clock!

We stopped for lunch and had an Ocean salad, which had lots of green stuff and prawns and potatoes and two big bits of smoked salmon on top! It was yummy! Oh, and we had fries too!