France June 2016 - Museum of Fine Arts, Paris
We checked out the Museum of Fine Arts.  It's a very unusual building.  Like its art, as we would discover.  You enter the building at bottom and go up those tubular stairs that cross the face of the building diagonally.
   
We had a pretty good view at the top of the building.  The Sacré-Cœur Basilica on Montmartre hill is visible through the gloom to the right.
   
Paris on a misty, gloomy day.
   
This art museum was interesting to me in that I was interested in seeing what is considered fine art these days.  My litmus test is "could I do that"?
   
Yes, I think I could do that.
   
Lynnette wondering if this would fit into our house.
   
OK, I think I could recreate this one on my back deck.
   
Now I couldn't do this, but this painting interested me.
   

Jerry Seinfield did a bit on men and tuxedos:  "“The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman’s point of view that men are all the same; so we might as well dress them that way. That’s why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy.”

I think the artist copied Charles De Gaulle's nose for the woman on the right.
   
Lynnette is IMPRESSED!
   
Well, of course.
   
OK!
   
Yeah, I could do that.
   

This is an amazing piece by artist Christopher Wool.

I'd recommend this museum if you've seen everything else in Paris and are bored.  Really bored.
   
 
   
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