I loved the Barcelona and Modernity – Gaudi to Dali show at the Metropolitan that is running through June 3rd, 2007 – if your in town you really have to see this show – it’s one more of the series of FANTASTIC shows that have been put on by the Metropolitan Museum over the last year.  No Photography was allowed – but I can talk about it and the pictures and feelings are etched in my mind.

Coming into this show from the Roman Wing that I had seen just before - I felt every bit as happy with what I saw in Barcelona and Modernity.   I hope to go back two or three times by the time the show closes.

Here’s some of the images that Met has online that I liked the most in this show:

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
Interior of Els Quatre Gats Piccaso – 1899

La Vie (Life) Piccaso – 1903

Port de Barcelona Lluis Bracons – 1925

There’s a lot more that is not reproduced online.  I was looking at Picasso’s early work and comparing it to the other artists he befriended from Barcelona or nearby parts of Spain – and trying to figure out what works for me in his work vs. the others.

I came up with an idea that works for me – it’s not a new idea, that artists who appeal to me are the one’s that are using paint, or the art form, whatever it is, to capture feeling and transform it via painting.  Painters that are describing light, or redoing what a photograph does, more or less, might seem to have a lot of technical skill, but the work is boring.

Enough for tonight.