04/04/04… Once a year we get a date like that…. It would be cool to have that as a birth date….
I went to see “The girl with the pearl earring”. Someone said it is like watching paint dry, I say it is like looking at a photo album or, even more, an art book. Beautiful photography, exquisite lighting, nice sets and costumes…but no action…none.
It is all about a painting by famous Dutch artist Vermeer. This reminded me of a game we used to play when I was a kid. It was called “Les grands maîtres” meaning great masters. Each player was handed a group of cards depicting different masterpieces and along with a “value” card for each one. Some were very expensive but others were forgeries. The idea was to sell your paintings at an auction and to make the price go up. It required some selling abilities and forced us to look at our paintings closely in order to better “sell” them. It was a fun game and educative too as we learnt about art. To this day I vividly remember one of the paintings from that game, it was a well endowed woman with a plunging décolleté, I think it was by Watteau…I can’t seem to find the title…I will keep on looking.