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Monet and Renoir were soon joined by Camille Pissarro,
Degas and Cézanne. The next generation included Georges
Seurat and Paul Gauguin, then Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso
(Spanish, but adopted by the French), Paul Klee (Swiss-
German) and Georges Braque.
Paris became the romantic home of a romantic lifestyle:
the ultimate individual, the artist. After food and politics,
nothing tickles the French middle-class sensibility more
quickly than 'art'. That includes all the media, visual, fashion
and i lm. Artists are adored, though they have to struggle
quite a bit for attention, with so many others around. A
person who cares nothing for art is considered uncivilised in
France, no matter what his other attributes might be.
Visit an art exposition in Paris, especially an opening, or
vernissage
. It will be teaming with the artii ce of the arts. The
beautifully dressed will be plentiful, even while the artist may
be that dishevelled guy slouching embittered in the corner.
All part of the show. There is so much of artistic merit in
everything about French life, I consider every Frenchman
something of an artist, and all of France his canvas. And
that's no lie.
Sensuality and Sex
Well, we have to put this somewhere and certainly sensuality
is one of the enjoyable arts of France. Sex, that is its
expression in the differences between the sexes, is a constant
source of entertainment to the French. Their fascination with
the subject and their expertise in conveying that passion
is apparent everywhere in Paris. Sensuality spills from the
magazine stands, the advertising billboards and the shop
window displays.
This is not to say that French women are loose or that love
is free. But the French love to do one thing and that they do
very well. They l irt. And if you relax just a little, you will i nd
yourself enjoying the constant l irtations going on around
you. You will even i nd yourself l irting, too.
The act of sex is not the goal of this sensual game. It is
rather a celebration of the differences. It is an art form.
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