Back from Tuscany - seen a deal of renaissance art. Possibly too much:) Still digesting. Did one poxy watercolour and made some hasty notes.
Yesterday did a partial tour of the Artistes a Suivre, a series of local exhibitions that this year seemed to have excluded anyone local. People flown in from all over the countryside. The prevailing view was of 'modern' french taste - designs for decorators, nice house stuff. Bon gout, bongu bongu as we ended up calling it all. There were exceptions - one fabulously good non-figurative painter who could really paint, Yves Marcerou, and a young woman fetish maker, Corinne Becot. There may have been others but these were all I saw. Dispiriting.
Drawing tomorrow. Looking forward to 2 hours of solitude-in-group. What Ive left out en process in the studio doesn't bear thinking about.
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