So my ninth day in Paris followed the same trend as the lost two days, and I went to another art gallery. This time, we took a class trip to the Musée d'Orsay. This morning was particularly different because there was a possibility of protests in the subway. The fact that the French protest things so vocally, and that literally everything can be protested is something way different than we see back home. We may see a few protests every now and then, but there seems to be a possibility of a protest every other day here. Of course the day we were suppose to go to the art museum, a protest in the metro did actually happen. Nothing serious happened, the train was just delayed about 15 minutes, and we were still able to make it to our reservation on time.
The Musée d'Orsay was a very beautiful art museum. A lot of the other people on the trip said it was their favorite museum we've been to. The impressionist and neoimpressionist paintings at the museum are just very different than the classics we saw at the Louvre. These paintings had a lot more color (which everyone appreciated) and had a type of movement about it. The brush strokes looked like little wisps instead of fine, precise line. You could tell clearly what each image was trying to capture, but it was portrayed in a way that the image wasn't so sharp. Needless to say, I'm a fan. Now I may not have liked it as much as the Salvador Dali museum, but this was definitely a close second.
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