SHARING WITH ME

I really am undecided how I felt about the Picasso/Giacometti exhibition. The one very special point was my friend from Finland was here for a few days and she wanted to visit the new museum. Renovated would perhaps be a better word. 

Picasso was younger than Giacometti - in fact 20 years younger. I don’t know if they were close during the years that they saw one another. For that matter, no-one seems to know too much about their relationship. We do know that they discussed their work in the context of post war arguments around the return to realism. There has been new research done but somehow I don’t find it very satisfactory. Their sculpture was shown together - but it didn’t seem to have much relationship even if we did see much more of both the artists’ work Giacometti Grande Femme - 1958 Picasso : La Femme Enceinte: deuxième état. 1950-1959 Giacometti :Tête de la mère - around 1925 Giacometti : Tête du père - 1927-30 Giacometti : Femme cu...

Tête de Clown - 1955 In my last chapter on Magritte, I told you that he was so identifiable that his work could not be stolen. In fact a picture had been stolen but was returned to the museum some three years later as it couldn’t be sold. 

I feel this is the same with Bernard Buffet. Once again, we all know his work - probably you have come across his clown or his owl Le Petit Duc -1969 or even a self portrait. 

You certainly don’t have to be an art genius or historian to know the picture is a Bernard Buffet. Self Portrait -1966 Never the less, I don’t think that I have ever seen a retrospective of his work before. He was born in 1928 and took his life in 1999. He had Parkinson’s and could no longer hold a brush. Buffet is considered to be one of the most famous French painters of the 20th Century but he is also one of the most contentious. There are so many descriptions of his work. Let’s look at a few «  Only the works from his earl...