Euphoria’s interactivity is a nice change when compared to many museums and their extremely static exhibits. I feel it successfully brings out the inner child in people, which I believe is necessary in this increasingly negative world. The different installations are pleasant enough on their own, but come alive with human interaction, such as the …
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Can’t really think of much to talk about for this one, so have some recent photographs of various street art around Montmartre. Even though the dominant art community moved to Montparnasse, its still a vibrant place. I also enjoyed seeing the art in the Musée de Montmartre. Out of all the artists present, I think …
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After going to both the Pere Lachaise and Montparnasse cemeteries in Paris, I feel like Parisian cemeteries are laid out in a way that’s visually interesting, while US cemeteries are very uniform and dull. Decoration In Paris, the graves aren’t all just a stone in the ground, but miniature monuments or decorated with various materials, …
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When we went to the Musee D’Orsay, I thought it was another, grander Hausmannian-designed structure due to its similarities with the surrounding buildings, but was corrected when I heard it was an example of adaptive reuse in the 1960s from an obsolete train station set to be demolished. Out of the exhibits being shown in …
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Even though public transit in Baltimore and Paris exists to aid movement of people, they contrast heavily in several areas. Both cities have underground transit, but that’s roughly where similarities end. Baltimore’s light rail and subway offer simple services for a limited population center, while Paris is a sprawling backbone for a dense area. I …
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To me, paintings largely reflect one person’s perspective on an event. I feel that they also serve a single fixed meaning or aesthetic. I normally don’t like paintings, but when we went to the Louvre, I couldn’t help but admire the various paintings we saw there. I find myself drawn to physical objects and machines …
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Since I got to Paris several weeks before the start of the program, I have some experience with some of Paris’ public transit. When going from CDG to my mother’s cousins apartment near the Champs-de-Mars, the RER B stop at Charles De Gaulles was in Terminal 2. One thing I noticed on the RER C …
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While in the Latin Quarter this week, I noticed a lot of tiny pixelated art work on the buildings and wondered why they were there. I did some research and found that most of them were created by a street artist called Invader, who mostly works within the Latin Quarter. The author of the article …
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