I have now gone twice to see this exhibit, and I am tentatively planning a third tomorrow evening. Just as I had never really noticed Marc Chagall before that tiny print exhibit at the Kohl’s Museum, I had never really looked at Picasso before.
There is the famous large “Picasso” sculpture in the Daley Plaza in Chicago. I’ve heard about “Guernica.” Cubism etc. But even as I planned to visit this exhibit with friends, I thought to myself that I’m really not that taken by Pablo Picasso.
Well, now, clearly I am!
From the first visit last Friday, August 29th, came my first poem in about 20 years! “La Lecture de la Lettra.”
With the wonders of Google, the internet, and my own growing knowledge and skills with Microsoft Office, I superimposed my poem on a cropped, downloaded image of this painting.
I see this poem as the first in a series, which I hope to get published somewhere. It’s too late for Gulf News, as the exhibit ends tomorrow evening. But what about the Museè Picasso in Paris? Well, why not!
In my second visit, last night, I concentrated on the 13 of the 183 works that I found most compelling. I took scores of notes, including verbatim ones on Surrealism and Cubism.
