{"id":1523,"date":"2024-01-27T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2024-01-27T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T13:01:39","slug":"the-alexandre-iii-bridge-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/the-alexandre-iii-bridge-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alexandre III Bridge and me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 12 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alexandre III Bridge is magnificent. It connects the two banks of Paris: the right bank and the left bank, the Esplanade des Invalides and the Grand Palais and its sidekick, the Petit Palais! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On this bridge: 32 bronze candelabra, 4 fames (arts, sciences, fight and war), groups of lions led by children, and all along, in bronze or copper, Cupids supporting the four lampposts, 4 genies with fish and shells and in the center what particularly interests us in this painting: nymphs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stand next to one\nof them. I am impressed. With its hand, which looks huge,\ndisproportionate, it seems to want to catch something delicately\nbetween its index finger and its thumb. Yet but I don’t see anything.\nNo, absolutely nothing. The Seine seems empty of any craft, boat,\nbarge, etc. No, none of that. Or maybe some soul got lost and was on\nthe verge of drowning. Would that be possible ? Or at most\nconcievable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I take a few steps\nback. I’m wondering. I look far ahead towards the Eiffel Tower which\nis a little further away on the left but you won\u2019t see it in this\npainting. You’ll have to take my word for it! I’m looking for a clue,\na rational explanation. This is who I am. And at the same time, I\nlike to believe in the invisible, in intangible energy, in\nsynchronicity too. Why am I here? The question of the day. A\ncoincidence ? A fate ? Because the weather is nice and I wanted to\nvisit Paris and particularly cross this bridge. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if this bridge,\nthis nymph, this hand all together were there only to allow me to\npaint this canvas for you. And while watching it I imagine a whole\nbunch of stories. I have a head full of stories. I like to write\nstories about each of my paintings. I write them for you and also to\ntell you that you can imagine your own story too. Maybe it will\nremind you of a good memory or cause an, as yet unknown, emotion. Who\nknows !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This outstretched hand is also mine to seize the present moment\nand let myself be guided towards my fate fully confident. The future\nbelongs to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 12 inch \u2013 Unique work The Alexandre III Bridge is magnificent. It connects the two banks of Paris: the right bank and the left bank, the Esplanade des Invalides and the Grand Palais and its sidekick, the Petit Palais!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}