Today my good friend Anna came in to town. Why? She was on a mission to see the Chicago Art Institute downtown and its Cy Twombly exhibit before it left town. And I got to join her in the art-appreciating fun. Cy Twombly is, as I put it, "all wombly with colors." Some I liked, some not so much, c'est la vie. But other holdings of this justifiaby famous museum always command my attention. Such as the famous Suerat.
Did you know it took Georges Seurat around two years to paint this masterpiece? It's worth reading about. As for me, I'm especially fond of the perspective of the above picture. The camera (and thus you and me) looking at Anna looking at the picnicers looking at other people looking out to the water and on to Paris and on to...
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