Thursday, December 29, 2011

This painting looks like a photo, but Picasso wouldn't mind.

This French museum painting looks like a photo, eh? Pablo Picasso said that if you
want realism, then take a photo; but he's dead, so have a painting that looks like a photo:

I Climbed a French Mountain Today

I have the scars and exhaustion to prove that today I scrambled up a coastal French hill to St. Agnes, at 650 metres above sea level the highest such village.  The shrubbery short cut cut my bare legs on centimetre-long spikes sticking from the trunks and branches.  The mass of switchbacks up stone staircases made me respect their builders and their past climbers, of which I am now one.