SHARING WITH ME

Realistic art, still life, many landscapes  and vases of flowers have never been high in my book of art priorities - but as with Simon Hantaï, some artists have such a wide palette, surprise can just be an exhibition away. 

Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) came into my life 12 years ago. Perhaps a little longer. I came home stopping to see my Mother who was in a very excited state about a new artist. A good friend of ours had been in that afternoon and spoken about Morandi. He had lived in Bologna (Italy) all his life and there was a special museum there. Could we go? I used to snap at those opportunities as always it was discovery for me too. All I could understand from the excitement that this man had painted the same theme all his life. We went the following weekend and lo and behold..... However, compared to the retrospective in Brussels I went to this week - the first in many years - Bologna had only given me a soupçon of all he had done.  Ajouter une légende Although Morandi