DAYS AS I LIKE THEM.......
I am sure we all have days, unexpected as they but when everything is ticket boo!!! I had more or less planned what I wanted to do and then did something quite different. Surrealism as art has never really been my cup of tea but the rain and wind started howling when I was in front of the Beaubourg. No umbrella would have stayed in place. The centre was opening so in I went. Up to the 6th floor in the lift and as those who intended (I suppose) to come up, did so by escalator and there I was alone again…..I can’t say that the advertising had really tempted me, but here we go. I will let you guess who they are……. Surrealism for me is Man Ray, Bellmer, Dali, Marcel Duchamp and for what I have seen, paintings or objects really do not thrill me….we all know these…… Hans Bellmer " The Doll" 1933-36 Man Ray - La Femme 1920 - insulting to a woman? Man Ray - The coat stand - 1920 and frankly, I have found it rather insulting that women could be associat