THOSE HYPNOTIC EYES
When the exhibition opened in April this year, I had already received a message on one of my art sites about Paula Modersohn-Becker. (1876-1907)An artist I knew absolutely nothing about. The title itself was intriguing « An Intensely Artistic Eye » or in French « L’Intensité du Regard ». The image used for the exhibition certainly defined that. Over the following weeks and probably well into May, I met quite a few people who said they had seen the exhibition, but it was « uninteresting » and they were sure that I wouldn’t like it. Most of these friends know my taste in art so l decided against it. The weeks roll by. The other day I was hesitating about which exhibition I would go to. That face looked at me again from my computer. I was going to see THAT exhibition. Portrait of a young girl, fingers spread on her chest : 1905 After training in Berlin, Paula Modersohn-Becker joined the artists' colony at Worpswede in northern Germany, but soon left to seek inspiration elsewher