SHARING WITH ME

After that rather bleak experience at the Maison Rouge, I needed to have something more colourful to look at. The next exhibition on my rather long list was « Pop Art - Icons that matter » - the Whitney Museum of American Art    This is the Moma installation.. Collection. I’m pretty sure that it was with Laurent and Jerome that I went to see the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective many years ago. What ever it was, Pop Art certainly didn't really stimulate my curiosity. So why would I go along to this event?  Simple, to see why I didn’t really like it. 

All the major Icons were there. 60 + paintings. Fortunately the Maillol Museum can hang such large works successfully. They have space even if the crowd was in place when I got there.  The exhibition focuses on figures such as Jasper John (the American flag that we all know too well), Robert Rauschenberg (for me his name always conjures up huge collage and I have never really liked them), Andy Warhol ...

It goes without saying that I will see all the exhibitions on at La Maison Rouge before it closes at the end of 2018. This too was to be my first exhibition in the new season. As I have told you our school years starts in September and most of the main exhibitions follow suite as do concerts and theatre. I was looking forward to it. Not for one moment did I think it would be so bleak at first glance. Marin Karmitz is quite a well known name for us as he began his career in cinema as a director helping to form the chain of MK2 cinemas. They have certainly changed the face of Paris.  His collection from the first glance in the opening gallery was mainly black and white photos. From the first picture you see at once that they depict tragedies of the 20th Century. Places too (from Europe to the United States), through various media - video, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and several large-scale installations which surprised me as I would never have connected the artists conc...