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Affichage des articles du avril 19, 2014

REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING.....

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I got back to my little hotel which was only ten minutes away. Pierrette asked what I was seeing and in reply to her email, I said that I would take in the permanent collection the following day. I had - so I thought - never really given it my full attention.  
 So after another hour spent with the « Expressionists » off I went to see the permanent collection. If I had forgotten it, when coming into the first gallery, everything came flooding back. Then I looked up my notes and there it was in 2011. This was followed by other exhibitions on the same topic in 2012 -  TWO DAYS OF WEALTH AND COLOUR. However, I had forgotten the Baselitz. Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern. (Wikipedia) You have got to admit that the g