August Impressionistes map, Bouillon Chartier Montparnasse

After deep immersion in Van Gogh and tomatoes next up -Impressionists - Thanks to Li Chen for suggesting this month's map 💡 idea. Let me know it you have any burning map ideas 💡 

I'm always looking. Its funny how you may not be a big fan of something like Van Gogh or the Impressionistes.

And after serious exposure your head is completely turned around. You can't get enough.

Art critics of the time (1860s) called the work of Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Cezanne, Renoir, Morisot, Caillebotte sketchy, unfinished unlike the formulaic, traditional Academic highly polished historic paintings.

And why did the artists leave the studio to paint outside en plein aire? The critics derided their work as just an 'impression' and that's where their name came from. 

At the same time as the Impressionistes were busting loose with their paintbrushes, Baron Haussmann was ripping up Paris, putting in broad new boulevards. Opera Garnier was going up. It was a time of tremendous change.

No wonder artists wanted to paint what was in front of them instead of looking to the past.

Thanks to well-off artist Caillebotte who bought up many works by his struggling fellow painters, you can now see all of their paintings in unison at musee d'Orsay in Paris.

L'Orangerie and musee Marmottan should be on your Impressionnistes bucket list. 

On the way to la poste 📮 I noticed a new branch of the classic brasserie, Bouillon Chartier in Montparnasse. Very reasonable & good, loaded with Belle Epoque atmosphere. The Impressionists certainly ate their roast chicken here. Chartier opened in 1896. 

I had 2 starters; snails 🐌 plus endive salad with roquefort 

And a pruneau au vin glace vanille.(total €16,50)

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With love💋from Paris🐻

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