SHARING WITH ME

I enjoy conferences with Claude Rocca and «Les Chemins de l’Art» but don’t go too often as the periods or exhibitions  he presents are not always of interest to me. But we are about to have two conferences which I  booked quite a while ago. One on the Art during the second world war period and the other on Edward Hopper. This is the first major exhibition and retrospective which is travelling around Europe. Laurent and Jerome had already seen it in Madrid - I had to be patient and to see it in Paris. couple buvant 1906-07 Claude gave us an hour’s presentation with slides. We were then given «quartier libre» to visit the exhibition which is on three floors and covering his life’s work. Some 128 paintings in all from water-colours to illustrations during the period where he worked before becoming famous,  engravings and paintings. In the latter period there are so many of his paintings which are known and used for advertisement of some kind or another that I was prepared to ski

Two hours door to door and I arrived  in Roubaix at «La Piscine». I was there earlier this year to see the Duncan-Picasso («Oh What a Pleasure» - 26th April) . As for the previous visit, I arrived at midday finding a virtually empty museum - a lot of people eating in the café and a few visitors in the exhibition. This time we were allowed to take photographs which I did in a second tour around. I left three hours later. You could not move for people. Many years ago an art teacher  insisted that Chagall was only interesting in his Russian period and when he came to France, his painting became purely commercial. He lived in France between 1923 and 1939 and then again from 1948 to the end of his life, 1985.  As this is the first big retrospective of his work which I have seen in some years, I was interested to see if I could prove him wrong. I think I did. Garnier Opera   Obviously if you are referring to his illustrations for the Bible which make the Bible very readable or the