This morning, we went to the Musee national d'art moderne, which is housed in the Centre Pompidou. When the Pompidou was built, they made a special point of putting as much infrastructure as possible on the outside of the building, including ventilation tubes and escalators rising 6 floors. So it has a striking, non-traditional appearance.
The city views from the top are outstanding.
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| Front of the Pompidou |
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| Back of the Pompidou |
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| The escalator |
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| View of the rooftops to the west |
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| City view to the southwest |
Equally outstanding was the Germaine Richier exhibition on Floor 6. She was an immensely talented and very creative, 20th-century, French artist, primarily a sculptor.
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| A photo of Richier from the Expo brochure, looking a lot like my French mother |
Early in the exhibition a large photo on the wall showed Richier sculpting a maskless fencer from a nude model, posed to get the legs just right.
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| The Maskless Fencer |
Wonderful collection of realistic sculpture and wildly imaginative art.
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Clockwise from upper right: Bust of Naldone, The Poet (George Borgeaud), The Warrior,
and The Magician |
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| Storm man and Hurricane woman |
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| Preying Mantis |
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| Large, medium and small Grasshoppers |
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| Six-headed Horse |
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| Devil with claws |
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