Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Collage


In the rue Mazarine, I found these pretty unusual paintings hanging on a wall above a restaurant. I really wonder how the authors of these paintings managed to stick them that high, but, anyway, I thought it was a nice photo idea. So here you go!

17 comments:

  1. If they were small pictures of people instead of paintings I'd say Amelie Polain passed by this restaurant and hanged there the small collection of portraits she made by picking up photos left in those automatic machines...

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  2. They're very good drawings, particularly bottom left.

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  3. This is what is so wonderful about Paris - art is everywhere at every level!!!

    Great colour and composition.

    Volcanic ash has eased and flights are back on here which is good.

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  5. Original and whimsical. Art on art!

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  6. Seeing the extra link you left, I agree with Monica. You had to be looking up to find these.

    Jeff, if this is the rue Mazarine, then your deduction of the previous photo being Blvd. St. Germain must be on target. Coincidence? I think not.

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  7. Very original !! The entire photo isn't bad neither ! Quel oeil !

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  8. Fantastic eye for the unusual and typical this blog. I found you through Facebook and glad I did.

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  9. I really like that one on the bottom left. What an interesting way to display their art. And now it is immortalized on the internet, thanks to you.

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  10. Yes, luckily the artistic spirit is alive and well in Paris, despite what naysayers may say.

    This area is a particularly artistic and creative one, and you often find weird/wonderful stuff here. What about the gallery 'une pièce' or something like that - do you know that one? There are often some quite wonderful creations within.

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  11. What a cool idea - although I worry that they are hanging outside - they'll be ruined by the weather!

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  12. Maybe, sticking these unusual paintings on the wall, the owner of this restaurant is helping the police?

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  13. great...love stuff like this! once in paris I found these poems someone had written taped to a wall..they were fairly morbid and mean..I think they were written to a lover after a bad breakup!! uniquely parisian all the same!

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  14. Michael: Yes, I was thinking the same thing as I thought I recognized the pizza sign. I checked the map and, sure enough, the Blvd. St. Germain hypothesis yesterday is supported.

    I believe the artist climbed out the window onto the small pizza roof.

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  15. whew, for some reason this picture really gets to me.... it is SOOO sad, the torn neglected collection of girls looks like so many lost children, they used to be loved, and are now forgotten. It would make a brilliant illustration for an article on the slave trade...

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