This Is Art?

Day 13-Hello, Paris! Again. Today we went to the Pompidou Center, a museum of modern ‘art’. We had the bad judgement to start at the 4th floor, populated by women artists. Whoo boy! These people had NO talent. One lady painted a canvas, then took a gun and shot it up, to “feel the passion” she said. Another lady put utensils on display and called it art, and another one put splattered paintbrushes. Why not use them to make something wothwhile?! And some of the stuff was GROSS! You have no idea how gross, and you don’t want to have any idea. There was one lady who took videos of people’s hands, randomly doing stuff. Hey, all you women artists, here’s a tip: if you’re going to petition a museum to put women’s work in, make your work good enough to be there in the first place. Ellery thinks: I liked the toys (Calder Exhibit) and everything else was a little gross. And some of the other things were really gross. Moving right along, we went to the fifth floor. There was work from Matisse, Picasso, and a cool guy whose name I forget-Simon Hanti. He once wrote on a canvas every day for a year just to get the effect! I liked those; they were the way cubism should be. Simple and cubes and abstract. Thank you, people! And I will say all of those paintings kept us out of the driving rain! Ellery liked: It was good. I liked the things, except some of it was completely pointless. But it was better than the 4th floor. Back to moi! We went up to the sixth floor, where they had Calder’s whole circus! It was very interesting, because he made it all out of household items. After leaving the museum, we walked ages to get to a burger place, but it was worth it! We then relaxed in our hotel room, after going to the grocery store for chicken, cookies, bread, and juice. I ordered a doughnut all on my own! In French! I also found Speculoos, some of the most delicious things on this Earth. Bwa-hahahahahahaha!