🇫🇷 Art & Artists at Place de Clichy - Live-stream Hangout

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[00:05:20]Sandre says, "I'm nervous for Corey."

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[00:05:38]Yes. Okay. Nancy says we can hear you but we can't see you. Yeah. Okay. So, let me get rid of this now. Can you see something?

[00:05:50]Because we're going to get started. I'm going to show you where what I'm looking at here.

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[00:06:33]And uh okay, can anyone hear the music?

[00:06:36]I'm just curious because uh it's very low right now. I'm going to turn up the music the turn up the volume and you tell me if you hear it a little bit better. I'm just curious.

[00:06:56]Light music. Elizabeth says, "Can you turn the music off?" Yes.

[00:07:03]The music was just supposed to be for that uh starting section.

[00:07:09]It was supposed to be very kind of light in the background.

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[00:07:21]Lisa says we can hear the music. It was better volume before. Okay, great. So nice and low volume for just for the next time for like the the waiting room, we'll call it.

[00:07:29]Okay, everybody, let's get started. We are at Plastic Clichi. Thanks so much for joining me and it is a very warm, very toasty Sunday evening. And I want to start, you know, there's so there are so many artists addresses in this area.

[00:07:43]It's really remarkable. We're just steps from not uh Mom and uh for that reason here uh lot of amazing artists and paintings that were done in this area. I want to start though with an ery what you can see here. A cute little local spot called Lucano.

[00:08:02]The music should be gone by the way. I'm just seeing people mention it. The music should be gone now. So, I'm going to start officially. So, Li here is um and I've got a lot of photos to share with you. Gorgeous interiors that uh it's a bar and a local ery. And one cool thing about this app here is I can pull up stuff like this and show you the interior of this place called the beautiful turn of the century uh mirrors and mosaics.

[00:08:37]And that's what the bar looks like. It's very tiny. I wanted to start the episode inside of there, but the um it was very crowded and the signal wasn't great. So, I decided just to show you some and what I also got to show you are some incredible photos of the food. Look at this. This is a I pulled these off of um Google. So, this is called a milo of uh potato. So, it's like these very thin layers like a milfoy uh pattisree um but with potatoes and then it's served with kenfresh on the bottom. It kind of looks like it's sitting on a a crepe but that's just the color of the of the plate. But yeah, creme fresh on the bottom and then trout eggs, like a trout caviar and then a dill, a garnish of dill. So that's a like a crispy brown mirroy of potato. And I think that that's pretty amazing.

[00:09:27]And then they also do a cornbread. Look at this. That is a it's called a like a cornbread uh gu. So you not only do you get the cornbread, but you get the little piece of a corn cob and then I think what is a like a palenta? Like a corn palenta served as well with some fresh herbs. And these are not my photos. I have not tried this stuff, but it all looks absolutely dynamite. So, that's called the and the interiors are absolutely stunning.

[00:09:54]Put that one on the map before we talk about there's another uh cool ery here, but I want to show you where we are cuz I should have done that at the be at the beginning.

[00:10:04]This is our map of our beloved Paris.

[00:10:06]And you can see in the red dot up there um this is an area called um you could call it Batinol. We're at the on the border of Le Batinol and uh we're at Plastic Clichi. Now, this is an interesting neighborhood that's a sort of a crossroads of four different uh arandism. It actually borders four different arandis mall. That would be the seventh uh sorry, the 8th, the 9th, the 17th, and the 18th. So, we've got four um Aronismo, four different styles of neighborhoods all converging on Plas Deishi, which is just over there, and we'll explore in a moment.

[00:10:42]I've got to show you this cute place. So again, we've got Listano, super local spot, which is really lovely. And then right next to it, we've got the Tipus, which also has its own vibe.

[00:10:53]But there's a a painter that I absolutely adore. His name is Pierre Bonar. And I want to show you a painting that Bonar did in the interior of this fatipus. I absolutely love it.

[00:11:14]So hopefully that's coming through uh for you. That's Pierre Bonar. And if if you don't know his work, absolutely look into it. So he painted this in the 1930s right at this location. And the city happens to know about that, too. It's not exactly a a hidden secret because they put one of these lovely modern historical plaques right here. And they let us know that here at Plaichi, Mr. Pier in the 1930s painted this. So that's great that the city acknowledges that.

[00:11:46]Lori Dean, how are you? Lori Dean says, "Very cool. I'm glad you think so."

[00:11:49]Lorie Dean, like that dress that this girl's got here.

[00:11:54]And I picked this time of day when the sun is doing its thing and we're heading toward sunset, 8:00 p.m. local time.

[00:12:15]Let's see the front of Lupipus.

[00:12:18]Hopefully not too many of these people will mind us having a look at them. This place right here on the on the left called the Little Italy is a pretty decent little pizzeria. I mean, to have the best pizza in Paris, you should really hop on a train and go to Rome. or or Tuskanyany or something. But um you know, the second best option are little joints like this. So the Little Italy, it's very hip and kind of young and modern inside. And I've had a pretty decent little margarita pizza there.

[00:12:54]>> Yeah. Brewing tea says, "Lick it and send it."

[00:12:57]Lick it and send it. So let's explore a bit of plastic cliche here.

[00:13:03]I'm going to tell you about that lovely statue in the center which is the um kind of the cornerstone of the entire square here.

[00:13:14]And then we've got an old um an old Tommy Metro station which is worth a look here. Like this this when you see them it kind of matches with the lady's uh dress you when you see here this style of like brown and green. It's not it wasn't the main metro uh company of Paris. It was a a competing company called Norsur or the North South company and they did like this interesting brown ceramic tile here. So this was like a competing company that was putting in metro lines at the same time as the main company of Paris. And for a while they were competitors so to speak. And then eventually this one, the Nosu Nosu company, merged into the main uh metro entity that built all of the rest of the stations.

[00:14:21]Beonio.

[00:14:26]All right.

[00:14:28]Okay. Now, we got to cross a little bit here to get So, good. We've still got a little bit of light on this statue. I want to tell you about this gentleman here. So, let's zoom in a little bit.

[00:14:48]This is a statue from 1864. And the gentleman here on the on the left, just right there, was called the Mari Marishal Demoni.

[00:14:59]Interesting character.

[00:15:01]Pull up a portrait of him here because I do have access to some pretty cool images.

[00:15:09]So maybe we can put him in the frame like that.

[00:15:14]In fact, what I can do is hold up. I've got all kinds of options here. We'll do something like that.

[00:15:21]So, the Mahesal Demon defended a wall that used to be here, a taxation wall when this was the border of Paris. And there was a famous battle called the Battle of Paris that happened in 1814.

[00:15:33]And it essentially saw saw Russian troops coming to invade Paris from the north here. And again, this being the barrier of the city and the outskirts of Paris. This gentleman here had to defend the city in the Battle of Paris. He ultimately would lose to the Russians, but he's very well known for being under Napoleon's army. A great defender of this part of Paris.

[00:15:57]I have an image of the battle itself here. A lovely painting.

[00:16:04]Maybe we'll put him kind of in the frame, too. Actually, let's do that.

[00:16:09]So, that's the Battle of Paris. A lot of people don't know about it. Again, 1814.

[00:16:16]He also became uh this gentleman the governor of Leandal. And Leandal is where Napoleon's ashes long after he was exiled where the ashes of the emperor were going to be placed at Leandal. And this guy being the governor actually wanted to um to receive the ashes of Napoleon. However, he was 86 years old and he was gravely ill. But he said to his, he begged his doctors, knowing that Napoleon's ashes were about to be inducted and placed at Lean Valid. He begged his doctors. He said, quote, "Please keep me alive long enough to be able to welcome the emperor." And his doctors did just that. At 86 years old, he was so frail he couldn't even stand up to salute the remains of uh Napoleon as they entered Lean Valid. He did his best to stand up. Uh but anyway, so a great uh supporter of the French military and quite a hero.

[00:17:08]Let's uh zoom out a little bit and I'll show you more of the square here.

[00:17:27]Ah, Lisa says the the video feed is great so far. Yay. Woohoo. Cool.

[00:17:33]I'll just give you kind of the once around here and then I want to show you a painting, a lovely painting that was done of the square because again the artists were all around and then I want I'll show you a couple old old Tommy photos too of the plastic cliche.

[00:17:52]The um I'll give you another idea of where we are here. So this the darker brown section is what the border of Paris previously was up until 1860. And there was a taxation wall, the wall of the farmer's general. It was actually one of the walls that really um angered everyone leading to the French Revolution. But anyway, in 1814 that brown section that was the size of Paris. And so we are kind of on the the upper um left-hand portion of it. And I'm going to zoom in here for you like that. Okay, we'll do that.

[00:18:25]And you can see where we are. And there actually was a port. So you would come in and you get taxed. Now beyond that, which was beyond the dark section of outside of Paris, of course, the wine and the alcohol wasn't taxed. So all the cabar cabarets and the the cafes out here and the bars were serving a cheaper wine. And so of course that would have uh attracted the the local artists and we'll talk about them. Some of the very famous the impressionists spent a lot of time out here, the surrealists and whatnot.

[00:18:53]So I wanted to bring up a painting. Here we go.

[00:19:03]This is a painting uh by a man called Gonjon.

[00:19:10]Maybe I won't move the background so much. I don't want to make you dizzy or sick, but something like that. Yeah, paintings like this boy.

[00:19:18]And then check out the the photos that I've got here.

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[00:19:54]And then I've got another photo of the same plastic.

[00:19:58]I love those old timey photos.

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[00:20:10]It wasn't quite the same soundtrack back then in this photo. You didn't hear quite as many beep beeps. I think you probably heard like the if that actually even was a thing. Maybe I just watched too many cartoons when I was young.

[00:20:26]Okay, let's soak in some more of this sunlight.

[00:20:34]And at the base, by the way, of this dece.

[00:20:41]I know you're in the the shade here, but let me just give you some some idea of the reliefs there.

[00:20:52]Nice and slow and take our time.

[00:21:11]>> Wow, that's that's beautiful.

[00:21:18]Thank you, Elizabeth and Andrea. I see you there. Thank you so much. Really appreciate the support. This relief is dynamite. I am very much digging that.

[00:21:26]And then, >> can you make out the hand that's on trying to like grasp the sword up there?

[00:21:35]>> And there's a a cannon. I should back up actually without stepping into traffic. So, we got a straight up cannon there. We've got a a gent that sadly looks like he kind of bit it during this battle.

[00:21:51]>> Ah, Sandre, you're such a rock star.

[00:21:53]Thank you so much for the support.

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[00:22:04]Yeah. So, we've got a canon there that looks like it's a bit chipped at the end. It's like intentionally made to look broken. And then one last look at the Marishal de Monsi with just a little sliver of sunlight still left on his face.

[00:22:26]Look at this building. But speaking of zooming, I mean, how about some zoom scrolling?

[00:22:32]Yes. Look at that.

[00:22:36]Woo.

[00:22:38]It makes me want to sing at the top of my lungs.

[00:22:47]Let me show you another visual from here before we move on. A lot of people don't know that Paris technically has a casino.

[00:22:55]A casino/ uh poker room.

[00:23:00]I'd never been in there.

[00:23:02]My gambling days are largely behind me.

[00:23:05]They certainly certainly happened when I was younger. I was no stranger to it, but nowadays not so much. And I just want to zoom in. I know it's mostly in the shade, but do you see this? Quite a lovely So, it's called Club Mont. And it's okay. I mean, the reviews say that, you know, some people say it's lovely inside, some people say it's just a, you know, it's a huge scam, and I guess most casinos are, but yeah, I wanted to show you that um that mural in the darkness there. Sadly, we don't have a lot of light. It's on fabric, as you can see.

[00:23:33]It's not painted directly onto the wall, but it's called the um the circle of games.

[00:23:40]Just because we're admiring visuals, I thought I'd point that out to you.

[00:23:45]Now, let's get back into the artists of this area.

[00:23:59]I'm going to show you one of the One of the coolest paintings by Edoir Nan, the great impressionists.

[00:24:10]Oh, while we're here waiting to for traffic to go by, right on this corner, you can see I wanted to show you an amazing brasserie called the the Brasser Velper or Welper. And it's one of those iconic brasseries of the old days, but it is completely destroyed. So, I don't know if it's gone forever, if they're going to redo it because it used to be one of the iconic spots. And you can see it's completely just not exactly picturesque for my episode today.

[00:24:40]This is where um the great writer uh Henry Miller used to hang out.

[00:24:49]And let me pull up. Even though I know it's not much to look at, we're going to have to use our imagination.

[00:24:55]But uh yeah, American author Henry Miller used to hang out here. He was a regular in the 30s. He wrote uh if you've heard of the the great novel, the trop tropic of cancer. That was kind of one of his masterpieces. And then he also featured this brasserie in a later work called The Quiet Days in Clichi.

[00:25:10]But uh I don't know what what good old Henry Miller would think about the state of it now. Are they going to redo it?

[00:25:16]Are they going to modernize it? Or is it going to look like it used to? Because it's an absolute mess.

[00:25:34]Uh, let's see if I can catch up on some comments here.

[00:25:41]I need to a little bit of jaywalking never hurt anybody, right?

[00:25:48]Probably hurt somebody every day, actually.

[00:25:51]So, there's a cinema here, but it used to be see it in red there.

[00:26:02]It's called the cinema deast.

[00:26:06]I got to tell you about it. Zoom out a little bit. Let me get out of the road.

[00:26:14]Cool. There used to be a famous cabaret right here and it was a restaurant and it was kind of like that Renoir painting the Mulan delet where there used to be like a vast outdoor garden dining area like a a country countryside setting bucolic setting and it attracted all the local artists and it was placed just beyond that tax wall where I mentioned the wine was cheaper here just beyond the barrier of Paris back then. And so look at this incredible manet painting. So good I had to use it for the thumbnail of this episode. Look at that thing.

[00:26:48]It's called Sher Oh, sorry. The title is Sher Lu.

[00:26:53]Sorry. Sh Lu 1879. And I love this. It's a guy who the expression on this guy's face is I can't tell if he's like macking on this girl or if he just asks her a question and he's desperately waiting for the answer or if he's bothering her. I mean, you've got the uh the waiter there and his classic garb and he's almost he's looking right at us, right? He's looking at the viewer at this the painter almost as if it's the end of his shift and he's just waiting to clean up.

[00:27:28]But how lovely is that? And so this used to be a cabaret restaurant called Sha Lup uh Latino. Now remember our boy uh the Marishala who the the big statue that we talked about.

[00:27:44]Well during that battle of Paris he um was fighting the Russians and he chose this restaurant the restaurant we just saw painted by Man Manet. He chose that place as his command post. And so he had all his troops there and he's trying to find a way to keep the Russians from invading uh Paris in 1814.

[00:28:02]And when the owner, Mr. Latri, that we've been talking about, the father Latri, when the owner saw that he was going to probably lose his stock of liquor and wine to the invading Russians, that the their victory was imminent. He started to hand out to Demon's men uh all of the soldiers all of his bottles of wine and all of his bottles of liquor. And he was like basically he said to them, "Drink up my friends. Drink for free. Don't leave the enemy a single bottle of my wine." So all of the soldiers got to down the entire stock of the restaurant rather than leave one bottle of wine for the invading Russians. So I think that's pretty pretty great and sounds like a very French type of a French way to to capitulate in style. And this is the entire cinema here.

[00:28:49]So this is number seven. And and then at number nine, which I don't even know if the door is this might be number nine here, that was the cafe GBO, and that's where many of the impressionists famously hung out. This was one of their go-to spots.

[00:29:05]Not only Manet, but you had Monet, you had Renoir and Pasaro. They were like the regulars. And then a little bit more sporadically, you'd have Dega stopping by, you'd have Seaison Go and the great novelist Emil Zola. and they would all hang out right here um at what used to be the cafe gyaboa. There are aren't a lot of images or photos or or anything like that of what it looked like, but here Manet luckily did an ink uh sort of an ink drawing. And so this is by Manet of the interior of that uber famous impressionist cafe that sadly no longer exists. So had it not been for this cafe, literally a lot of those meetings and decisions about the impressionist group and whatnot and the movement may have never happened.

[00:29:53]Okay, moving on back to our square.

[00:30:00]Head on a swivel. That that that >> Yeah, sadly there is some construction.

[00:30:07]And please avert your eyes from the various construction debris and the occasional uh graffiti expression graffitical expressionism. We're going to call that.

[00:30:32]So I've still got we're just getting started. I've still got addresses to show you related to Picasso and Sarah the poinlist and Vua who is another famous painter that people should definitely know more about etc etc. So we're going to say goodbye to plastic cliche. Thanks for everybody who is tuning in today and wouldn't you know it we still seem to be connected.

[00:31:02]Oh, and that little green man arrived just in time.

[00:31:17]Yeah, Marlene says, "Remember to like."

[00:31:18]I appreciate that because I will, one thing's for sure. I will always forget to tell you to like and subscribe. I'll always forget that for sure.

[00:31:36]>> Uh, I don't know if there's a composition here. I'm trying.

[00:31:40]That's the Morris column on the left that we've talked about in previous episodes.

[00:31:46]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's Let's get moving uh before this sunlight goes away from us.

[00:32:00]So, if you're just joining, we're at we're in kind of north northwestern Paris, not far from Lumat.

[00:32:09]We're at the crossroads of four different aandism. Number 8, 9 numbers 8, 9, 17, and 18. Not far from there's a beautiful building here. We're getting very close to Picasso. Can you feel it?

[00:32:23]I can feel it.

[00:32:25]Tell me, can you feel it? Picasso's on.

[00:32:31]Thank you, Nancy. Let's see what Nancy said. Thanks so much for these videos and live streams. They mean the world to us. A thank you. Oh, you know what I can do, too? This is just I won't do this every time. This is just kind of for fun. But this is for you, Nancy. Cheers.

[00:32:50]And a few hearts. Why not?

[00:32:53]Hey, thanks, Bus. That's exactly what I wanted to show my my viewers. Thanks, man. Oh, and it's a long one, too, so it's going to completely obscure.

[00:33:03]There we go.

[00:33:05]I'm allowed to be sarcastic once in a while. Uh, so just look at the details here. This is this was not Picasso's building, but he did live right next door.

[00:33:17]Lisa says, "Fun. I like the app." Yeah, thanks, Lisa. So, as you see, as you can see, I can add at any time uh photos and music and videos and overlays and stuff.

[00:33:28]Oh, here's another thing I can do.

[00:33:34]Check this out as I show you the details.

[00:33:38]Just a subtle little reminder about my Patreon page. 99% of you are very very aware that I have one of those, but I know there are always those outliers, those new newcomers who might want to uh become even dive even deeper into our fre community, franophile community. So yeah, I mean this this building is banging.

[00:34:02]Interestingly, the date on the outside of this building, and you almost never see this in Paris, it says was constructed between 1914 and 1916, which means World War I. I mean, imagine starting a project in 1914, and then all of a sudden, what they called La Grand, the Great War, all of a sudden just completely decimated all hope throughout Europe. And the casualties for the French were just absurd, absurdly high.

[00:34:30]So you just don't see any buildings being built during that time. It's actually quite a quite a miracle that they they were able to finish it two years into World War I.

[00:34:40]So that's that.

[00:34:44]A thanks Phyllis. Loving this Cory says Phyllis.

[00:34:49]Okay. Picasso. Picasso had many studios and many residences, but this was one of the very earliest spots that Picasso would have hung out.

[00:35:01]It's right here and it's uh number 130 te. So te e r means basically you have 130. That address there is 130. This uh is 130 b which means part two and then 130 tea which means part three. Uh, and it says, uh, this building's 1884, which means it's the actual building that Picasso would have stayed in. I happen to have, I believe he was up near the top floor, actually on the other side, looking toward the courtyard. So, it's 1901 and Picasso moves in here. Look at this amazing photo that I can share for you. Share with you rather.

[00:35:41]Look at that.

[00:35:43]This is Picasso and some friends literally in that very apartment.

[00:35:59]So, it was 1901 and he had been making trips to Paris back and forth. He hadn't moved here for real yet. And there was a uh Spanish art dealer who said, "You can use um my apartment here and basically use it as a studio, and if you can crank out enough paintings, we'll mount a solo exhibit." And it actually would end up being one of the key early solo exhibits for Picasso in the in the Paris region.

[00:36:24]And so he cranked out up to 30 or over 30 paintings just in one month. So he was really really busting. And um I can show you for example something he did looking out the window, one of his neighbors windows of this very building.

[00:36:38]Look at that.

[00:36:42]That's literally called Bulad de Clichi, which is the street that we're currently on. So that's Picasso in a way looking back at us 125 years ago. I love that this is kind of Picasso. He was a chameleon. He was a sponge. He could try any style that he came across. And in the early 1900s, he wasn't doing, you know, disjointed cubis faces or anything like that. He was, this is a very impressionistic type of work. He also painted in this very at this very address not one, but let me get rid of that. Not one but two.

[00:37:17]Hold on. Wait for it. Wait for it. Side by side action. Not one but two absin drinkers. How great is that? He So he painted both of these up in that art dealers's room at this address.

[00:37:32]These were these are considered to be kind of influenced by Tulus Lot who at the turn of the century early 1900s man he was going for it. He was Tulus Lot was the man over just down the street at the Mulan Rouge for example.

[00:37:46]So, this would lead to Picasso's first breakthrough solo exhibit.

[00:37:53]Speaking of the influence, sorry, I'm trying to If it shakes, it means I'm just tapping my screen trying to get rid of these photos. Um, look at this. This was also done by Picasso at this address and it's a woman in a tub.

[00:38:05]Interestingly, the uh the influence of Tulus Loch. If you look carefully at the wall in the back to the right, there's a poster of a dancer and that was a tulk lithograph. So there's literally Picasso does a painting with Tulus Lot in the uh hanging on the wall. And then you see how blue this is. This is considered to be essentially the beginning of Picasso's famous blue period. Uh and so this started a whole line of many many many rather somber and blue paintings.

[00:38:33]I love it. I just love it. And to stand here at the foot of his building and to imagine him coming out of the doors, all that good stuff.

[00:38:52]And if Picasso is not your bag, how about some s of course being the famous pointalist and um he was right here. Another building from the 1800s tucked away just between these two establishments just right there. And I've got a couple of images to show you.

[00:39:22]So SA was somewhere in there.

[00:39:25]And a couple of his images, one of them I've actually shared with my Patreon supporters, but we're not there quite yet. Yeah, we are. We are there actually. I don't know if any of you recognize this. It was a bonus tour extension when I did plast.

[00:39:39]And this was a and I mentioned the um the fuadron, which was the big fairground that they did every year at at the Nion Square. And so he painted the atmosphere of the performers and whatnot. So Sad did this painting right here where we're standing. And then he also did this lovely work here of some theater dancers.

[00:40:06]Oh, Jennifer Robinson's here. I just I just noticed.

[00:40:10]Oh, cool. Jennifer says, "Gorgeous. I've never seen this one."

[00:40:16]Sat. Speaking of Jennifer, she and her husband and I went literally to the island. I don't have the painting here, but the famous Sarat painting of the Dejane um on the Ilat.

[00:40:30]We went there. We went to that island outside of Paris to literally see it.

[00:40:33]So, shout out to Jennifer and her awesomeness. I owed Jennifer and her husband quite a lot, let me tell you.

[00:40:40]Let's bring it back to something. Ooh, let's bring it back to that sunlight.

[00:40:48]This little man, he's walking on sunshine. Whoa.

[00:40:52]Don't feel good.

[00:40:54]Oh, yeah. I know. Walking on sunshine.

[00:41:10]Ah, Linda Love says, "I actually have a great copy of this from the Met." Oh, wow.

[00:41:19]But Linda, you're a cultured lady. I mean, I get the feeling that your apartment is surrounded like packed with all kinds of beautiful stuff.

[00:41:31]Okay, a little more modern.

[00:41:38]This is a big reflective silver apple if you can see.

[00:41:46]And I'll explain what this is. This is a a sculpture and installation from 2011.

[00:41:53]And it is a large apple. It's called Latri Pum or the fourth apple. I'm going to zoom in here and then I'll tell you.

[00:42:00]It is. Even though it's an apple, you can see my you can see me. But what I want to show you is it's kind of like a globe basically is what I'm trying to say.

[00:42:10]It's taking me forever to say it. So, do you see Africa there?

[00:42:15]Yeah. Anyway, take my word for it. It's the outlines of the of the globe. South Africa.

[00:42:25]I have no idea if you can make that out, but anyway, trust me.

[00:42:30]at the bottom here. Very interesting conceptual piece.

[00:42:36]The name of the sculpture is not this actually. The the sculptor himself is called Francei.

[00:42:41]And again, it's 2011. And France, the artist wanted to uh create a something to honor Mr. Charl Furier.

[00:42:50]Charl Furier was essentially like a utopian socialist philosopher. Okay. And he came up with this uh furier gentleman came up with uh a theory called leatrop or the four apples and basically it was a famous observation that there have been four great apples in human history.

[00:43:08]Four great apples in the course of human history. The four of them uh or the first one rather is the apple that Adam received from Eve.

[00:43:16]And the second apple is the there was a a prince of Troy named Paris. Actually, interestingly, uh, the prince of Troy named Paris gave an apple to Venus, and that sparked off the Trojan War. Second apple. Third apple was the one that fell on Isaac Newton's head and of course tipped him off to the whole uh, you know, revealing of gravity. And the fourth apple was Mr. Forier's own apple.

[00:43:40]So the the philosopher that is mentioned there, he had a story of an apple that he was in Paris eating at a restaurant and he noticed that um in the restaurant the cost of one apple in Paris was the same price as a 100 apples back where he uh grew up. And so basically it was it started this whole kind of doctrine or this theory of his where he talked about the craziness of the you know the commercial market and the exploitation of prices on the commercial market and it was all due to him seeing the price of an apple in Paris. So hopefully I did a moderately good job of explaining that. So there are four key apples related to uh human history according to this furier philosopher. And then here comes an artist and he's going to make this big silver apple in honor of the philosophers's concept.

[00:44:36]>> Uh here's another pretty building alert.

[00:44:53]It almost always gets better as you go up, doesn't it? There's almost always a payoff at the top. Hold on. I'm in a bike lane.

[00:45:01]Yes. With a tree.

[00:45:06]Woo.

[00:45:10]Get out of the bike lane.

[00:45:21]Okay, I promise I'm not being a creep, but I just wanted to show you this uh fashion situation going on here.

[00:45:28]I'm not even looking at my screen. I'm averting my eyes. I'm being a very good boy.

[00:45:33]I just thought that, you know, it's Paris and sometimes you see some some moments of fashion that, you know, warrant our appreciation as well.

[00:45:41]But I didn't look. I promise I didn't look at I didn't see anything.

[00:45:46]Here is a lovely little entrance to the MMA cemetery. Famously, uh you have Da's tomb over there. Let me get this gross sign out of the composition. I don't like that whatsoever.

[00:45:57]So, yeah, the entrance of the Mummat Cemetery, you've got Da and then the second famous tomb is probably Dalida, the famous uh singer who lived in Mumat.

[00:46:05]And her tomb is quite extravagant. I should have brought up a brought a photo with me of her tomb. the datum.

[00:46:11]Actually, I made an effort to go see it um one day with some tour clients. By the way, I should put a little thing on the screen that I'm tour guide as well if you're new to this. Um come take a tour with me in Paris. The link is in the description and all that good jazz.

[00:46:23]So, yeah, we made an effort to go see the DGA tomb and it was a little underwhelming. I mean, I'm happy to pay my respects to DEGA. He's one of the all-time greats, but um I for his sake, I was hoping he'd have a better, more elaborate tomb. Has Let me know in the comments if that's ever happened to any of you. If you've gotten jazzed to see a tomb of someone you really admire and then maybe underwhelmed isn't the right word, but maybe you're just thinking like, "Ah, too bad for him or her that they really deserved, you know, something more extraordinary, something more something that honored them."

[00:46:59]But I think at different periods of time in history, sometimes it was kind of fashionable to be the guy who had an elaborate fancy tomb. And then other times in history, it was fashionable to be more modest.

[00:47:13]And then maybe some of those people didn't even choose their tombs. Maybe it was ch they were chosen for them.

[00:47:20]Ah, here's some light just scraping. Uh, forgive me for one second. I'm going to do.

[00:47:27]There's one thing about this app that drives me crazy. I never know which camera I'm zoomed into of my phone. So, what I'm going to do is shoot. Is this going to work? Crap. Hold on.

[00:47:38]Hold on.

[00:47:41]I don't want to use my wideangle lens.

[00:47:43]So, I need to block it and make sure.

[00:47:46]Just bear with me for a second.

[00:47:53]Okay, hold on. So, I'm going to block it and Okay, I need to zoom in just to the point where Okay, that's a little annoying, but at least I know now that this is the the camera that I want to use to have the best quality. So, yeah, we are admiring this. Look at that.

[00:48:17]It's like sweet caramel.

[00:48:26]Uh Sharon Peterson said, "Also underwhelmed by Degasum."

[00:48:31]Thank you, Sharon, for backing me up on that. I didn't want to be the only one to say it.

[00:48:36]I'm digging this light so much that we're going to hit it from another angle.

[00:48:44]This is maybe just about the last sunlight that we'll see today.

[00:48:53]I want to show you an uh one of the entrances of this building right here.

[00:49:06]Thank you, Pam, for the support. I really appreciate that.

[00:49:10]She says, "Thank Thank you so much.

[00:49:12]Wonderful success." Oh, awesome. Yeah. I mean, we're still connected. This is insane. What if we can actually do live streams again, right? This is kind of nostalgic. This is like the old days.

[00:49:23]Okay, let me show you where we are. Have you Have you seen this?

[00:49:27]Hold on. Let me Okay, so anyway, this street, just check the name. I'm going to check the name.

[00:49:37]It's called the R Pierre Ar. So, H A R E T. And it said he lived in this building right here. So, but first this street here and everyone walks out of these gorgeous buildings here and they um basically uh get to see these beautiful green spaces and then this doorway number eight. Will there be enough light and to show you here? And I just wanna Come on. Come on. Let's do this. Let's do this. Let's make it work. Hopefully you can see. I got to position myself. I got to do like a macarina move just to hopefully you can see that.

[00:50:31]Shoot. Anyway, you can kind of make it out. Why do they make these doors out of glass? Look at this.

[00:50:38]Yes.

[00:50:40]Macarina.

[00:50:44]So, you're staring at you're walking out of your apartment.

[00:50:48]You're looking down at that and you're thinking, "Life is pretty good. I wonder what today is going to present me with."

[00:50:53]And then as you exit, you have this lovely little green space here.

[00:51:00]I quite like that.

[00:51:02]I quite like that.

[00:51:14]We're going to finish up down at this lovely little square. This is like a small park and it's called the Squar Ector Berios. So Berios was a a French romantic era composer, classical composer and conductor and he lived in the 19th century. He lived in this area. He worked in this area. He ended up dying in this neighborhood. And so they dedicated this whole square here to him, Berios.

[00:51:48]And there's a statue of him that I'll show you in a moment. But here, so just to give you as you enter, this is the square. It's looking a little overexposed up there. Can I Okay.

[00:52:00]It's a time of day where my camera doesn't quite know what's going on with the light.

[00:52:05]So, we're going to walk around the square and we've got a couple of notable uh some beautiful paintings to contemplate as well. Here's some more locals enjoying the very warm evening.

[00:52:17]Let's see what time is it. It's 5 minutes to 9:00, so it's definitely in the wheelhouse of time for Parisians to eat on a warm Sunday evening.

[00:52:27]Look at this. I love this. I actually haven't seen too many of these, but it's a brilliant idea. It's a It's a bike pump. like a permanent city bike pump that they install here. Hook it up and then it's got a little gauge. Who knows if the gauge still works, but I mean this thing's like really solid. As a bike rider in Paris, I would love to see these in every neighborhood, but this is the first one I've ever seen like this.

[00:52:51]Seems to work.

[00:52:54]Love it.

[00:53:00]So my boy Vua >> is one is a painter that oh my goodness I wish more people knew about. And here at this square he lived he had two famous addresses.

[00:53:15]This one right here which is on the eastern side of the square. And uh I'll show you the building here. We got a little splash of color up top.

[00:53:33]Don't feel good.

[00:53:35]All right. Now, and if we zoom in here, there's a plaque. Just so you know, I'm not lying to you.

[00:53:41]Mr. Via, so it says he lived in this building from 1908 to 1926. And then later when he left that building after so many years he moved over that way into that building there. He always lived with his mom Vuya.

[00:54:00]Let's back up a little bit. He lived with his mom most of his life even as a as an adult. And so let's start here.

[00:54:09]And as I his mom happened to run a business out of their home that was um designing dresses and corsets and whatnot and fashions for women. And for that reason, Mr. Vya uh painted tons of interiors, gorgeous interiors like this. Look at that.

[00:54:29]In fact, let me go ahead and we'll just do like so here in this square, he's painting things like this.

[00:54:42]And so because his mommy was always surrounded by um fabrics and patterns and wallpapers and win and fancy outfits and so his his paintings uh always reflected that. Look at this. Absolutely gorgeous.

[00:55:04]>> Capturing these intimate little moments of family life around the dinner table, hanging out, reading a book in the living room.

[00:55:19]And he was prolific, too. So you can buy a book of his work and it's just so tender and charming and poetic.

[00:55:29]That's Vuya. He was an absolute monster.

[00:55:32]Uh I showed you earlier very early on in this episode a painting by Bonak who did the inside of the Petipus um or Patipus restaurant. Well, these two guys were friends and colleagues and and kind of working in the same at the same time.

[00:55:46]again. This is we are >> Wow.

[00:56:02]Lori says, "The little details are amazing." Yeah, you can get lost in these. And just like Bonak, his other uh his colleague of Viar, they had this sense of I've heard critics describe it as there's a great sense of time in their paintings because there are so many details and sometimes you can just spend your time weaving in and out of them and all of a sudden you realize, oh wait, there's a person back in the distance or there's a there's actually a person in the corner and I never noticed them until, you know, 10 minutes of looking at this thing. And so it's almost like time that unfolds as you look at these works.

[00:56:32]And what an amazing document of this period of the sort of late 1800s, well into the early 1900s.

[00:56:43]This this one's a little bit different, but just gorgeous like subtle colors, rich the pallets, the the pop of red on the floor and this very sort of um graphical composition. Everything is just perfectly placed. I just love this guy and I had to I had to share. and the fact that he lived in not one but two buildings here.

[00:57:07]This is another one in interior with some musicians playing as we start to move over toward his other home.

[00:57:18]So, I hope you're enjoying these.

[00:57:28]Now what he also did as we admire this building. So he he didn't live in this building. I should be a little more clear. It's here at number six. I mean this building here on the left. I do want to show you some details. I hope I don't forget to do that.

[00:57:42]But it was here at number six which actually as I look at it now it does appear to be the same building.

[00:57:49]This was just kind of refinished. But if you look up top doesn't it look like it was it might have all been the same building. So VR moved from the one the building that we just looked at and he moved here uh with his mom. So he he and his mom must have been really close. And then after they moved in here to this building 2 years later his mom died and he was he was more alone. But I want to share with you also from the views like imagine these windows. I don't know exactly which window was his but he's looking out over the the square in the park and I got to show you what he did looking out the window because those are phenomenal as well. Look at this. It's a multi-panled view of the park. the park that I'm essentially standing in. And again, it's the det where's Waldo. The details, he really took his time. Now, the panels partly he he did a lot of funky uh dimensions and rat uh aspect ratios to his work uh which you'll see in um one of the other ones that I got to show you. And so, this might have been an installation for a restaurant or a budois or it could have been, you know, a special commission, which is why he would do those panels. Speaking of that, look at this. You've never seen anything like this before, right? And in fact, I want to give the overall view, but then I think I'll zoom in on the details. So, this must have been for a special installation where it had very specific dimensions. I don't know exactly the details of the origins, but what I can do here is we'll we'll kind of take it by by pieces here.

[00:59:20]So, I'll show you the top half first.

[00:59:25]Lovely, lovely, lovely. Sandra Sandra says, "Loving all of it." Thanks, Sandra.

[00:59:34]Yeah, what a sale. I don't know who who you are. What a sale. I don't know if I know you personally or not, but you made a great comment. It does look Japanese because he was uh very much inspired by that kind of aesthetic.

[00:59:48]So, let's enjoy the bottom of it here.

[00:59:54]Wow.

[00:59:56]>> What would be cool, I don't know how big this is, but it'd be cool if you had like an an open staircase uh in a two-level apartment that you could like start at the top and then just like a spiral staircase and you could just admire the details of this thing as you walk downstairs.

[01:00:11]Ah, Pamela says, "New favorite painter."

[01:00:13]Ah, that's great. Oops. Sorry. I wanted to do this. So, that's the complete composition. Isn't that wild? So yeah, Ver definitely check him out.

[01:00:26]>> Definitely. Do I have anything else to show you from him? No, that was it. So, let me I do want to show you part of the square here.

[01:00:37]There are still some kids in there. So, we won't walk through, but I do want to point out, remember I mentioned that this park is dedicated to um the composer, Belio, and there's a statue of him there. But what's interesting about the statue, let's go through here. We just got a last little glimpse of sunlight, by the way, that I wanted to show you down there. A little doggy crossing. Oh, I almost forgot. I wanted to show you these details. Thank god that sunlight attracted my eye.

[01:01:05]Okay, so who doesn't love a window like this? A bay window.

[01:01:12]And there are several others here, too.

[01:01:17]>> Oh, yeah.

[01:01:19]Oh yeah.

[01:01:22]>> Lick it and send it.

[01:01:26]>> There's no date on this building.

[01:01:28]Sometimes when there's no date, it means that it's before the 1880s because that's when um architects started signing their buildings. But um I just remembered something else I need to show you.

[01:01:42]Anyway, this door, it's not not a flamboyant door. Uh, Jennifer Robinson is saying, "Am I the only one who I can't read. Sorry, I can't read the text against that door." What is Jennifer saying? I gotta the only one who has never heard of this wonderful painter.

[01:02:01]Oh, I'm so glad, Jennifer. Yeah. Edo Via. VUIL L A R D.

[01:02:10]Okay, before I show you the statue, I look down that way while we still got some sun. I'm so glad I would have been kicking myself if I didn't remember to share this view with you cuz it was it's one of the highlights of even coming to this area.

[01:02:34]So, right about here. So, we've got the the park on our left. We're on the eastern edge of the square. And look what happens right around right as you turn this corner.

[01:02:50]Wait for it. Wait for it.

[01:02:53]Oh yeah.

[01:02:56]What?

[01:03:01]What? Look at that sunlight.

[01:03:08]Let's approach nice and slowly. This is like a wild animal where you don't want to spook it.

[01:03:15]>> You just want it to stay right there.

[01:03:26]Let's get a little bit closer.

[01:03:30]Lisa says perfection composition with the the awning maybe.

[01:03:38]Oh, exposure issue. There we go.

[01:03:41]Yes.

[01:03:43]Oh, look. It didn't send it.

[01:03:48]Yes.

[01:03:51]Brun says, "Don't startle the light."

[01:03:54]Let's get a little bit closer.

[01:04:04]I'm just like a moth drawn to the flame.

[01:04:11]Andrea says she's so beautiful.

[01:04:20]My mom and sister basically in unison.

[01:04:23]My sister says, "Hi there, buddy." And my mom says, "Uh, home." Yeah. My mom uh not too long ago spent three months over there in Mo. And I know you have great memories, mom, of that.

[01:04:34]Okay, let me show you this statue cuz this statue of the composer was one of those that was in it was in bronze originally, but during the Nazi occupation, they came and they melted down so many of the beautiful statues in Paris simply for weaponry for the German war machine. And it was a way for the French to appease the the Nazis.

[01:05:02]So, it's in stone now, but I want to show you the bronze original. I tracked down the original bronze.

[01:05:17]And I'm going to walk us, as you're looking at that, I'm going to walk us around to the other side because we'll see the statue a little bit better.

[01:05:25]So, I touched upon this if you if you watched my episode at Plasta Lanasum. I think that the title was King's Crocs and shoot what was the I don't know. I can't remember. But anyway, um it was the Plaster Lan episode. Someone can help me with the title.

[01:05:47]King's Crocs and Applesauce or some some stupid thing where I tried to rhyme or use alliteration. Uh, let me also show you that the composer I didn't show you what he looked like. That's Beerios.

[01:06:04]And I'm getting us to the other side now for a better view of the statue without bothering these kids too much.

[01:06:21]So yeah, the original bronze one just thrown onto a pile and melted down in some foundry and then probably became a piece of a Nazi tank or a jeep somewhere >> or a torpedo or who knows what.

[01:06:41]>> Before I wrap things up, look here on this side. Look at this entrance.

[01:06:46]There's like a a little gated community there. And look at this big old tree, like one single huge tree that takes up the entire entrance.

[01:06:56]And it's under lock and key.

[01:06:59]And even the gate is impossible to peek through because look, they definitely want their privacy. Can you see this?

[01:07:07]There's this fake foliage completely covering it all.

[01:07:11]But every now and then we get a little bit naughty. And so I'm going to peek you over and I want you to see what it looks like in there.

[01:07:24]Hopefully you can see that. Isn't that beautiful?

[01:07:28]Oh, it's so good.

[01:07:33]So beautiful.

[01:07:38]Okay, I don't want to get caught. I don't want to bother anybody, but still pretty wild.

[01:07:43]So, hopefully you enjoy that. A thanks, Jennifer. You're the best.

[01:07:50]Thanks for always finding new jewels and secrets to share with us from our favorite city. A thank you, Jen. You know, I enjoy uh exploring them with you for sure. Okay, folks. That's going to wrap it up. This was a nice How long did we go? Like well over an hour. This was awesome. We lasted over an hour live streaming, so I guess maybe this is going to be a thing for us. Thank you so much, guys, for the support. You're really the best. Those are some unique balconies on the corner there. And I think maybe we should end again with the um Sako because that sunlight's not going to last forever. I do want to point out that if you're trying to find this square, I'm going to show you where I've been saying that the square is named after the composer, which is true, but it also goes by this name here, plus Adolf Max. So, for any of you like taking notes or you want to come come back here because it's from this very corner where you can see that.

[01:08:55]Oops, sorry.

[01:08:58]Okay, everybody. Thank you. I'm going to sign off now. I really appreciate you all joining and um I'll see you soon for another episode. I look forward to sharing another part of Paris with you.

[01:09:09]If you're new, I should give you the spiel. I'm a tour guide here, and if you're coming to Paris, please check the link in the description to book a tour with me. Um I also have a Patreon page, which is a great way to support this and allow me to continue making videos.

[01:09:21]And I think I'm going to turn off this stream and pop in for a nice little massage. No, no, no, no. That's kind of an interesting commentary right there, but let's not let's not go there. Um, okay.

[01:09:35]I guess I'm going to finish up in Mul on my own here, which isn't a bad place to finish up. Thanks everybody. I'm going to stop right here. You know, I'm I'm bad at these goodbyes, but you are awesome. And thank you so much. And I'll catch you on the next episode, perhaps on the next live stream.

[01:09:50]Ovoa. Ovoa. Ovoa for now. Bye-bye.