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French museum displays artist’s fetish with visceral visual creations ART? from page 12 cheeked cherubs that grace the Lou vre. This Fragonard’s brushes were scalpels, his canvases the bodies of men and beasts. Carefully skinned, pre served and posed, they reveal what fas cinated their maker but repulses many visitors — the hidden world of blood and bone, of muscle and flesh. “The guy was obsessed. I think he went a little too far,” said Colin Herrick, a tourist from San Francisco gawking at the mummified bodies of three skinned human babies. Reeking of formaldehyde, the Fragonard Museum is housed in three rooms of the fortress-like National Veterinary School in Maisons-Alfort, a bleak industrial town on the eastern outskirts of the French capital. Over at the skinned babies, the tour ist from San Francisco ponders one posed like a miniature Humphrey Bogart, with one hand on a hip and the other bent at the elbow as if holding an unseen cigarette. Fragonard set up the museum him self in 1766 at the school, where he was a teacher. Distressed by the sinewy sculptures, the school fired Fragonard in 1771 — but it kept the museum. Even stranger, perhaps, was Fragonard’s popularity among mem bers of the aristocracy, who liked to keep “curious” objects in their homes. By the time Fragonard died in 1799, at age 66, hundreds of his sculptures were serving as icebreakers at dinner par ties. Imagine one of these in your living room: Ajar of fluid containing a lamb with 10 legs. The dried trachea of a steer, branching out like a Bonsai tree. Or a llama looking none too friendly without its fur. “Fragonard was crazy or a genius,” said Daniel Brunet, a high school stu dent who looked a bit pale as he left the museum. “Tonight, when I can’t sleep, I’ll figure out which.” leaves much to imagination ATTIC from page ■> 9:38 — Felt like a complete mo ron. 9:38 — Realized it was only a rat. 9:39 — Fed the rat a SweeThrt. 9:40 —Rat spat out SweeThrt and scurried away. 9:41 —Named rat “Fred II”. 9:43-9:47—Wondered more about the ghost. Supposedly people heard the ghost tap dancing. 9:48-9:52 Attempted to tap dance. Play stopped dead. 9:53—Realized I just added to the ghost legend. 9:55—Heard another noise. 9:56 — The cleaning lady closed the door and locked it again. Either she didn’t like the tap dancing or still didn’t know I was in the attic. 9:57-10:36 — Fell asleep some how. 10:37—Woke up with imprints of “qwerty” keyboard on face. Realized Fred was probably laughing his head off. 10:39 — Group of apparent thes pians invade attic. 10:41 — Guys from “The Eagle” radio station arrive. 10:42-10:49 — Thespians and Eagle guys wandered around, pointing out cool props. An Eagle guy tells a story about how a sign had been “mys Photo illustration by Lane Hickenbottom tenously moved aunng set-up opera tions earlier in the day. 10:51 -11:00—Thespian and Eagle guys group gradually increases to a dozen people, plus a few ghost “ex perts.” 11:00-l 1:11 — One ghost expert says a group of us should explore the building and “touch” things to discover their energy. 11:2b — I realize if I were Fred,f my butt wouldn’t be staying around this entertaining bunch. 11:27—Fred’s a smart guy. I’m get-. ;ing out of here too. 11:28-11:30 — I search for the package of SweeTarts, but can’t find them anywhere. Funny ... if a rat doesn’t like SweeTarts, I wouldn’t think a ghost would either. 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