Cezanne

OK, it's a given that I know zip about art but just to annoy all of you readers who do, I'll add that I know what I like. Saturday morning found me shuffling through several rooms at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, trying earnestly to be impressed with the Cezanne exhibit there. I failed...miserably. I feel so inadequate. All those DC folk sitting in rapt attention, worshipfully looking at 5 paintings, side by side, all apparently of the same rocks or trees or some other feature of the French countryside. I'm looking too but I'm just not seeing the charm of all those repetitive images...a total of over a hundred paintings in the show and for me, four or five would have given the same impressions and I could have been out of that part of the gallery and seeing some variety in other parts of the museum.

There is good news though...the water colors were really nice, the exhibit was free and closer examination showed that he stayed pretty much inside the lines and had covered all the numbers as he filled in the pictures....