This morning the city of Paris looks slightly fuming; the sky is overcast, and it is drizzling too. But it does no harm to me. I have decided to go out for a visit or an observation tour. I had asked Nirmal bhaai for a list of museums in the vicinity of Paris yesterday. In the evening, he brought me some brochures with the names and addresses and street maps of Paris Museums. Paris has more museums than temples and gods in Kathmandu, he says. I am new to Paris, staying here for only one week. Hope these maps and brochures will show me the Paris metro zones and guide me to some museums today. Last week Nirmal bhaai showed me Pompidou Centre, 'a complex building of high-tech structure'. This visit has emboldened me to explore further.
I guess I can cover a maximum of two museums today. It means just giving a cursory glance. This is my plan. They say Cezanne is quite far away, Paul Cezanne, the post-impressionist painter, maybe on the outskirts. I cannot visit him all alone, and cannot cover two museums in a day. So I chose to visit a museum nearby in the heart of the city. Likewise, Braque is far, and Du Champ is farther away. So I have decided as per Nirmal's suggestion to start with Rodin's. Maybe I will go to Monet's next.
People know I am never a painter, nor a sculptor, nor a connoisseur of art, or a professional, but then, the world knows that my interest in the lives of great artists and their lasting works is growing deeper. So wherever I go, I prefer to visit art museums first of all. In Russia, in Greece, in England, in America -- I did so. I move merely a dilettante, however, with a deep sense of awe and reverence. I have no words to express how I felt upon seeing Mona Lisa in Louvre yesterday. I must say why my interest in this is growing gradually in this way.
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