Martigues
After the second gallop of test of the truck-2 on the breakable
Moroccan tracks, improvements and repairs proved to be essential. On
March 17th I deposited it at Psi-Azalaï in Martigues. During this
time I continued the visit Marseilles started in the month of
September 2014. Thus truck-2 will be ready to assume again the
journey round the world tour on April 27th, 2015 after its shipment
to Halifax, Ns, Canada whose trip will be later on exposed by the
presentation page of Canada.
Marseille
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Palais Longchamp
The Longchamp Palace built with the plan by the architect Henri
Espérandieu is the end of the channel of Marseilles bringing
drinking water of the Durance river necessary to the townsmen. It
was built for the glory of water, arts and sciences. This monumental
water tower shelters the museum of the Beaux-Art as well as the
Natural History museum. The museum of the Beaux-Art received from
the State after the French Revolution major works of the French
painting, of the school of Provence as well as Italian painting. I
succeed in taking some pictures in spite of bad exposure conditions.
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| Fontaine d'abondance |
Vanité by Renard de Saint-André |
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| La chasse au sanglier by Rubens |
Le cerf à l'eau by Courbet |
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| L'éducation d'Achille by Puget |
Don Quichotte & Sancho Pança by Daumier |
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| La Bouillie by Millet |
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Musée d'Art contemporain (MAC)
The following day I left in forwarding to visit the Museum of
Contemporary art located at the middle of nowhere close to the
square Pierre Guerrer where the Tumb by César is set up, about
thirty minutes by subway & bus. Of course it exhibits contemporary
art, it is necessary to like; but the interest was a temporary
exhibition of eight “Time Capsules” on 612 boxes out of cardboard
realized by Andy Warhol from 1974 until his death in 1987. During
all these years it gathered works of popular culture for which it
created a style so called in the USA “Pop' art”. One from these
eights box contains newspaper cuttings, reviews as well as the
invoices of his hospitalization following the attempt at his
assassination by Valerie Solanas on June 3rd, 1968. Videos make it
possible to listen on the making way “Songs For Drella” (mixes of
Cinderella and Dracula) according to the concert given by Lou Reed
and John Cale in homage to Andy Warhol on January 7th, 1989. Of
course No Photo, I stole one with my smartphone from there. At the
beginning of afternoon I went back to Martigues to take the truck
and to return to Trans-en-Provence.
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| Le Pouce by César |
Pop'Art, Affiche publicitaire by Andy Warhol |
