Or is it Life Imitates Art?
Today it was time to visit the Botticelli to Braque
exhibit at the de Young Museum and see what sort of goodies they brought over
from the National Galleries of
Scotland. I walked into the big
special exhibition space with the walls painted in a rich, deep red and of
course I immediately could only think of one thing when I saw that room – fallen
bimbo-boy Congressman Aaron Schock. It
took some time to get passed that.
And with walls in mind, this special show with the extra
ticket price has a lot of empty walls. Big, empty walls and plenty of room for
a show of just 53 paintings. It seems
the work could have been comfortably installed in about 2/3 of the space they
used. This would have allowed for
another show, even of some of the less often seen pieces in the de Young’s own
collection. One has to wonder if they
are really just using the entire space in order to justify the ticket
price. It’s beginning to feel like those
cereal boxes that are half empty. It
keeps happening and I realize the box is the same, but the weight of the
contents has been lowered so they can sell less cereal for the same price while
making me think I am buying a larger box.
Yes, there are a few exceptional works that I am glad they
brought over. Particularly, Edgar Degas’s, Diego Martelli,
(below). I have a feeling this painting
had to have influenced the work of the Bay Area artist Elmer Bischoff.
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