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[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

Sara Jane Boyers wrote:


> It was primarily because of a visit to Paris while in college and my 
> first real view of the great impressionist paintings (particularly 
> Monet's "Parlement") at the Jeu des paumes that I switched my major from 
> political science to art history, took up photography a little more 
> seriously and am scanning happily today.
> 

When I was in Paris in the early 1980s, all the tourists were running to 
the Louvre.  I did eventually get there, but first I headed to the Jeu 
des paumes, which a lot of Parisians never even heard of (maybe it was 
my accent?)... I finally found it in a beautiful little park; a rather 
unpretentious building.  But once I got through the doors, I felt like I 
had entered the doors to a time machine.  What a collection of art... 
they had the originals of all the "stuff" I had seen in books and 
magazines and film strips from school all my life.  It was like a geode, 
looks like a lump of rock from the outside, but crack it open and it is 
filled with beautiful deep purple amethyst crystals.

I went back several times during my stay, and each time was more amazed 
than the last.  Yeah, the Louvre is big, and it has a lot of impressive 
stuff in it, like Mona, but square foot to square foot, the Jeu des 
paumes was the most impressive museum I saw in Europe (the Van Gogh in 
A'dam was a close second - I was there during the Van Gogh international 
tour - it was the largest collection of Van Gogh ever amassed in one 
place.).

I hope the new museum that replaced the Jeu des paumes is as magical.

Art