Looking through the Musée de l’Orangerie gift shop, I found many beautiful and unique pieces. I found a journal that had a painting of Giverney by Claude Monet, and it was very well done. I believe it was ethically created because it displays Monet’s work in a respectful way that can be enjoyed by anyone. It doesn’t alter the image, it just uses it as the cover of a journal. I bought it because I intend to write poems in it and reflect on all the fantastic art I’ve seen throughout Europe. A piece I think is ethically concerning is the Claude Monet figurine that gives him a big head. I think it’s a little weird that gift shops always make bobbleheads of important people, but it’s especially weird because he’s an artist who isn’t alive anymore. He created that museum and all his art to show what he loved, and now we just make figurines of him with a big head.
