Reality follows concept – and the concept of the following videos I took today came from two friends, one that came up with the idea, and another, that took the videos of me, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Cecilia Pineda Feret came up with the idea of me talking about something I’m passionate about – painting, especially the painters I care most about, like Paul Cezanne – while Dorothy Clementson was with me at the Metropolitan today and when I spontaniously suggested we take video, and that I had a video camera with me, we went ahead and just did it.

And today was pretty nice as I got to spend a lot of time with my friend Dorothy as we looked at Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna

In fact, The New York Times reviewed this drawing collection just last month, shortly after it opened to the public – Where Lines Become a Kind of Language

One of my favorite drawings in the collection

A Manet drawing of Madame Louhens,  done sometime between 1878-82.

Odilon Redon

Also, this Odilon Redon Portrait of Genevieve de Gonet is equisite.

Anyway, I put forth some of my ideas about art and Cezanne in my first two videos, and the last one is really about a painting owned by a reader of this blog connected to the painting in the Metropolitan Museum, an early Cezanne.

I’m too tired to write more tonight – but I will soon.  I’ve been so busy on both the work I do (Web Analytics, Social Media) and Art (paintings and writings on Webmetricsguru.com) plus the New York Social Scene that I love so much, that at times, it can be difficult to update my blogs as much as I would want, or should do.

I hope to make up for it by posting a lot in the next couple of weeks.