In the eye of the beholder

That's what they say about beauty & I've now decided it applies to art as well. Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria has been home to the Picasso Love & War Exhibition 1935 - 1945 since June. It finished yesterday.

We went along yesterday and joined the many other people who like us left it till the last minute. The exhibition explored the personal & artistic relationship between Picasso & his lover of those years, Dora Maar. There were over 300 pieces on display & it is said that the two lovers inspired one another intellectually & artisically throughout their time together. Well, I'm not an art critic but I know that some of the paintings left me scratching my head with wonder - I know, very uneducated but definitely 'in the eye of the beholder' category.

The Dora Maar portions were mainly photograhs and most were very good. We finished our visit to the NGV with a lovley lunch in the Garden Restaurant and wandered back home (well Bill pushed me) to watch the finish of the Bathurst 1000 on the tele. So there you have it our very varied Sunday.

A temporary sculpture, the illuminated PICASSO lettering (pictured above) has greeted visitors to NGV International for the duration of Picasso: Love & War and has quickly become one of Melbourne’s greatest tourist attractions! (I'm not the only one to take a photo of it). The letters went under the hammer as part of NGV Contemporary’s annual fundraising party last Thursday night. I'm not sure what anyone would do with one or more of the letters but still it's a novel way to prevent storage problems eh!

As we walked up to the gallery on Sunday we could hear lots of noise and it was obvious that something was happening there with the PA systems & closed roads. We discovered that the road in front of the gallery was in fact the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon. We saw a few of the runners coming in after their efforts in running from Frankston. So there added a little unexpected excitiment to our day.

So now it's Monday and life has returned to normal once more so until next time.........................