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Ch 45: Niki de Saint Phalle The future of man is woman. Never has a title been more of a desire! Mona continues to write in her journal to get caught up to present day and all she‘s learned and question how Mamie died. Outside the Beaubourg is the Stravinsky Fountain ( centre and lower middle) with sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle ( colour) and Jean Tinguely ( black), a Bonnie and Clyde of the art world cont‘d

Ch 44: Jackson Pollack Go into a trance. Mona starts school and is dismayed to learn her new French teacher is someone she met with Dadé and stuck her tongue out at ? an ominous start to the new school year? Mona‘s pick at Beaubourg is Pollack‘s ‘Silver Over Black, White, Yellow and Red ( upper right) which makes Dadé happy, he feels “(Pollack)‘s esthetic was actually easier to grasp the smaller the work‘s scale” cont‘d

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Ch 41:Hannah Höch Compose your being. Mona is in her own little world and the older kids can‘t stand it so they bully her. It backfires. Dadé takes her to look at HH ‘s ‘Mother‘( upper right) it is from the Dada movement and an example of photomontage ( upper left) which is different from collage; an artwork made up of mixed materials. Picasso‘s ‘Still life with Chair Caning‘ ( lower right) is an example of collage cont‘d

Just realized I completely forgot to read up for my #sundaybuddyread 🤦🏻‍♀️ I ended up working Tuesday - Friday to cover for a teacher off with the flu and I‘m in again tomorrow. My weekend got thrown driving to Toronto to pick up oldest who‘s come home from Uni to start a teacher practicum tomorrow, these chunksters are killing me #readingforecast #nonfictionnovember #europacollective #littenslovesjm

Ch 40: Constantin Brâncuşi Look up. Mona has a second MRI ( I‘ve had one once and I never thought I was claustrophobic until that day) Mona and Dadé stop outside by the funnels ( lower left) actually called the ‘Igor Stravinsky Fountain‘ to watch a bird charmer which segues well into CB‘s ‘Bird in Space‘ c 1941( upper middle) which isn‘t housed in the main museum but in the Atelier Brâncuşi, a side building ( lower right) cont‘d

Ch 39: René Magritte Listen to your subconscious. It‘s August and Mona has a birthday. She gets a puppy that Dadé refuses to bring on museum trips. So she will recount her visits to Cosmos like Marcel Broodthaers did with a cat ( lower left and middle). Surrealism is today‘s genre with RM‘s ‘The Red Model‘ ( upper left) the paining is classically painted with oils and technique but it‘s unsettling cont‘d

Ch 37 Kazimir Malevich Make yourself autonomous. Mona gets multiple eye tests done and passes all with flying colours. Her eye sight is exemplary. So Dadé takes them to see KM‘s ‘Black Cross‘ ( lower right) which is part of a new movement; Futurism. “..a movement that advocates constant change, the metamorphosis of everything, all the time, often with violence”. He wants to take painting back to elementary forms, pared down abstractions cont‘d

Ch 36: Marcel Duchamp Stir everything Up. Paul causes a stir at the Sunday market with his prototypes of old dial phones converted to allow cell phones ( top left) & gets quite a few orders. Dadé and Mona head to Beaubourg walking by the Bazar de l‘Hôtel de Ville, BHV ( top right) which is where MD‘s ‘Bottle Rack‘ ( bottom right) originated from, he called it ‘ready-made‘. Later on MD would submit ‘Fountain‘ ( bottom left) to an exhibition cont‘d