IMPRESSIONISTS AND PORNOGRAPHY

Up and down the Seine you see many things. We were recently on one of the many, perhaps hundreds of islands in the Seine. It has the great name of Île des Impressionnistes. It is where many of the great Impressionists gathered, dined, drank, went boating and painted. On the balcony of the Restaurant de la Maison Fournaise, Renoir painted 'Le Déjeuner des Canotiers'. Having the painting, a reproduction obviously, next to the actual location gives the painting so much extra. 

Painting by Renoir in front of the balcony where he rendered this iconic painting.

Going back to Impressionists and Pornography there is a good connection. Well perhaps it's a bit tenuous but it is there. A day earlier we were moored adjacent to another island and this time the artists were the the film makers rather than painters. It was definitely a porno shoot, with lots of pauses as members of the public passed by. All very strange. The connection, obviously The Seine. It's been used as a backdrop for 'Art' for centuries.