This is what's great about being in a big city. There's just too much to do. Today, my PI encouraged me to go to free museum Thursday at Berggruen. This is a museum created by one man who donated his private (mainly) cubism collection to the public. In return, he gets a room upstairs in the museum, so he can be with his art (awwwww, sentimental and slightly maniacal). Anyways, the collection is small enough for a runaround zoom tour and big enough to savor. The major artists included Picasso (lots and lots of him), Matisse and Klee. I entered the museum forty minutes before closing time (this was emphasized by the guard who glowered at me and pointed at this watching and said: fünfzig minuten!). I nodded 'yes sir', and ran around the museum in 15 minutes. Then I realized that I had plenty of time and went back through the museum and savored each piece: I walk up to the painting, let the first gut instinct hit me, analyze the initial emotions, turn the painting ninety degrees in my head, look again and decide if it's photo-worthy.
My PI also suggested that I get a poster... I think he meant of a Picasso painting. However, my favorite Picasso in the collection is of a lady, but if you know Picasso, you would know it's not just a lady. It's a grotesque-looking lady. I decided that I would not be able to fall asleep knowing that she's glowering at me in my room, so I went with a nice impressionist painting by Cezanne (one that was actually already sold from the collection so I didn't see it in person).
I like impressionism. It's fuzzy.
LILY
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