SHARING WITH ME

This afternoon I went off to the Louvre again to see the watercolors and drawings of Gerhard Richter. The crowds really beat the imagination but fortunately the Louvre is so big that once you are off the tourist track, you escape people very fast. The gallery where his work is presented goes through several main sections of Italian sculpture and art. The crowds wander through and throw a cursory look at Richter’s work. Only a few stop and actually look at some of the 60 odd pictures. Two major rooms with his work from 1957 to 2008. No photographs please and the Japanese who were caught left the room at once. No photographs? No interest their faces seem to say. There is a lot on Internet so I picked up a couple of the prints that really appealed to me. This work seems to be a preparation for what is to come. Much of his early work is in ink and ELBE is rolled onto paper and designs appear. My Mother did a lot of work like this and frankly some of it was more interesting than I saw this ...

It was a mixed lot today and cetainly not what I was expecting. Firstly Marielle and I went to see Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) at the Marmotton museum which is dedicated very much to Claude Monet. In fact the museum owns the largest collection in the world. 

Once again, this is not my period unless looking at the end of Monet’s life work which becomes modern, less realistic and a beginning of a new era. This exhibition was a first. If I wanted to see it, it was because Berthe was a rare woman for her period. Model for Edoudard Manet and that certainly meant her life changed. Through him she met some of the most important artists of that period who had a very obvious influence on her work. The cherry Tree Lady with a fan Berthe Morisot For that reason  I cannot say that I was overwhelmed or excited with what I saw. There were so many paintings which ressembled work of artists we know. However, toward the end of her life she did some beautiful and modern waterco...