Vagabond Artist

It was packed. I managed to get close to some of the paintings even if there were these groups of women that sort of monopolized the space in front of the paintings to shoot the shit. Not even looking at the paintings. I always find it amusing the comments of ovservers at painting exhibitions; being a painter I look at more technical stuff but hear the funniest things. Once at the Met in NY looking at an exhibition of Antonio da Messina. There were two women commenting on this amazing crucifix that was half the size of an A4 paper painted on wood with the most exquisit technique. The Christ was nude and totally suffering. The two women said to eachother, "What an interesting choice of model." I thought this was funny.

I thought that in the middle of the day would be a good time to go but it was not. Someone told me at Patricia's cocktail last night that the best time to go to museums in Paris is the evening.
the exhibit showed some of the early work by Giuseppe Arcimboldi and then alot of the bizarre portraits that he did using fruit and flowers and other organic things. There were many objects and other paintings by other artists that had been in the collection in Prague when the nobility there were collecting bizarre things. Worth seeing but go in the evening.