Musee d’Orsay, Blitz Society
Only in town for an exhausted evening of sleep, a full day of museum, lunch, and a bit of blitz, and a yoga session before we boarded the TGV for Lyon, .
The above would have us believe that affiches were a “people’s art”, perhaps in contrast to fantastically expensive oil paintings of mythological scenes like the birth of Venus or historical battles. But to Mikie if not Jody, these affiches represented the ancestors of the billboard, devices to increase sales to the masses, and not their art. Is a McDonald’s ad “people’s art?” Is the famous Apple iconoclastic ad for the people in some noncommercial way?
A charcuterie shop
A cheese shop
A bakery
For the chess bar, we took no photos so I can only direct you to https://blitzsociety.fr