We were doing street shopping in an art lane of Paris called the Montmartre! All right! Not much shopping but load of snooping!
If you thought you are an artist and that too of a good caliber then this may be a humbling experience for you!
The oldest bloke to the young artist here would sketch masterpiece after masterpiece!
Each and every stroke of brush creates a beauty which would make even Van Gogh proud and keep his ear for a change!
The street begins with a dedication to Van Gogh says a lot!
Plus the range of art is simply amazing! You have a set of profile makers to caricature artists to portrait makers! Then you have a bunch of them with modern art and then another bunch with different variants of the classics like the Mona Lisa or the scream!
Then you have the modern artists with the modern monuments which in Paris is the Eiffel tower with its grandeur in different viewpoints not from the tower but from the point of view of the artist!
Then you have those who are not even in the art lane but in some side street with quick sketch of your profile of simply a landmark of Paris as seen from the side! These sketches are actually the ones who were not deemed ‘worthy’ of the art street can make you question your own artistic talent!
Be it water color or oil pastels or even a stroke with nothing but a piece of chalk, or a crayon or even coal! I saw an old man with shaky fingers sketch a girl looking at him in green crayon while standing on a side street in less than five minutes!
Then again art is art! The best part of art is that it is an expression! It does not have to be the best if you can show what you want to see! While some would simply love a rough profile, many would even find flaws on a hyper realistic sketch!
In the end, all any art needs is an audience who appreciates the effort! Who sees the moon and does not see the spots!
Another quick sketch and blog after a busy day of travel in honour of another ‘artist’ Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar or A V Meiyappan!
Try to be positive at least in France mon amour!
Shubh ratri!
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