L'art en France

Art is an important part of French culture. We went to two places where we saw French art. The first place was Musee d'art moderne (Museum of modern art) Got to http://www.musee-ceret.com/fr/presen2.html to learn more.

It is in Ceret, a town not far away from where we are staying. It was raining. We saw a video in there and lots of paintings. Some paintings were by Pablo Picasso. Karl bought a poster and I bought a postcard. We had to be quiet.

Then, we went to a glassblowers workshop. It is called Le Palais du Verre. In was in a village called Palau del Vidre. We saw two men wearing shorts and t-shirts who worked together to make glass vases. There was a glob of hot melting glass on the end of a long metal tube. One man would blow into the tube to make the glass bigger. He pounded the hot glass on the wood. The wood burned. There were three big ovens to melt the glass. It takes two days for the glass to cool. We bought pieces of glass candy (in French they are called bonbons).

In France, the food is carefully made and designed. In almost every town there are Pâtisseries, or shops where pastries and sweets are made by food artisans. For Karl's birthday, we went to two different patisseries to get two different cakes. One had chocolate flakes and small red currants on top. It was so sweet I couldn't finish it. The other one had a layer of cake on the bottom, chocolate mousse on top of that, and then on the very top there were sliced pears. We also had pieces of appetizer cake. Those were made of a thick layer of chocolate, then chocolate mousse in the middle, and melted chocolate on top. (YUM!!)