This is my all time favorite painting.
Civilization went out the door
I think I saw Toulouse laTrec!..................
Megatons of horse manure, everywhere.
You were hot stuff if you had a bicycle. Even hotter if you could ride with no hands while checking your iPhone.
The women in the light dresses look very feminine.
And the moving sidewalk was cool.
Pre-mooslim filth.
Bkmrk.
It’s obviously wintertime and there was a recent dusting of snow........CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!...............
Very interesting; thanks for posting.
There was a scene that looked like people on a moving sidewalk. How extraordinary for that time period! Do you know anything about it?
No fat people!
This video looks like the calm before the storm. World War I set in motion the full-fledged destruction of Europe and its culture that we are witnessing today. It unleashed so many destructive evils - from modernist and nihilist thought, to Marxism, to central banking and fiat money.
This is my all time favorite painting.
The Vichy wagon was a nice touch.
And to think many of the young men in that film were probably killed in WWI.
That was fun. Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aohXOpKtns0
Wow. The remastering is brilliant
I watched the whole video.
No one was in any particular hurry. Nice.
The first line of the Paris Metro (subway) was opened in 1900 (four years before NYC’s first subway line). So that was their solution to the manure problem.
Except for the brief interruption caused by WWI, the party pretty much kept up until the stock market crash of ‘29. Paris was a dirt-cheap place to live then, especially for some place so cosmopolitan. But after Wall Street collapsed, even before the Great Depression crossed the Atlantic, many of the American ex-pats had to return home. Most had been living the life of Riley on family money but lost their funding when the with the run on the banks.
The recovery after WWI was swift because the city’s fame and reputation grew by word of mouth from all the thousands of American, British and Canadian servicemen who had visited there during the war. So after, there was a huge influx of foreign capital and English-speaking military types returning for the cheap living and the social tolerance. And the luminosity of Paris.
Hemingway moved to Paris in 1921 as a correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star, determined to make the best of the opportunity to learn the craft of writing. Living alongside the likes of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was quite the opportunity indeed. He came with Hadley, his first wife, and always recalled the period as the happiest time of his life.
When he left Paris in ‘28 for Key West, where he and wife #2 Pauline planned to take residence, he left behind a steamer trunk full of mementos and memoirs, which he accidentally rediscovered on a return trip to Paris in ‘56. He was working on compiling all the old notes into something publishable when he killed himself in ‘61. His fourth wife and widow, Mary, finished the work and released it in ‘64 under the title, “A Moveable Feast,” an allusion to a line of Hemingway’s, “If you are lucky enough to live in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
I don’t think you can read it and not understand why the people who gravitated to the place in that era were so smitten with it.
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