among majestic Haussmann heritage, located Musée d'Orsay - acknowledged temple of art. I distinctly remember moment, when my brain has turned up in this sanctuary for the first time: it was typical sunny day, in which genuine Paris dwellers could afford a minute of esthetic life – they got out of niggling offices, said «good-bye» to bustling of worldly days and dipped town into Ocean of human passion. As a consequence, it was a day of dinkum human being…
Firstly, I have passed security point and rushed to a hall with pictures of Ernest Meissonier: before my eyes flaunted the «Bibliophile», which was created in 1862. Undoubtedly, due to the fact that I am a big admirer of Enlightenment era, this picture has created a positive impression. Definitely, reading man in bathrobe and aesthetic wig, who has sat at the openwork table and placed in no less beautiful chair, has captured my poetical nature. This character has reminded me, that only light of pure science and pure arts can exalt us to a kingdom of virtue, where we will find a peace of mind. Perhaps this picture has resurrected in undercover half of my soul a certain feeling of aristocratic dignity - a certain feeling that has directed me to the path of truth. Only the lack of music has constrained my mind in chains of reality. I must add a very important detail: this «Enlightenment effect» has been enhanced through game of unobtrusive colors. Suddenly, some dark force has enveloped my mood: «The representatives of Enlightenment era (like this «Bibliophile») have tried to destroyed religion – this natural human bastion, which can protect mankind in a gloom times – and installed hegemony of rational thinking. They have tried to disassembled faith, tried to organized ugly «Culte de l'Être supreme» (Cult of the Supreme Being), tried to destroy irrational half of human existence – precisely this rationalists have led us to a Calvary of French revolution. It was a dark side of «Bibliophile»…
But now, after this small tragic operetta, I think that all people must aspire to ideal pictures of previous times and overcome murky aspects of all eras, because only «ideal» can liberate our mind and our soul from turpitude and wretchedness of man.
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