May 15, 2011: Parking is difficult, the METRO is expensive and time wasting, and the crowds are often insufferable, but sometimes we just have to go to the Mall. This Sunday we ventured out for the special Caneletto and Rousseau exhibits at the National Gallery.
The NGA does not allow photography inside special exhibits. If you have a camera slung over your shoulder, the NGA security guards will hassle you to death, but they never hassle all those taking pictures with their cell phones. The result is we cannot show you even a glimpse of these exhibits.
The Caneletto was stupendous, with comparisons with other 18th century painters in Venice, a side trip through the camera obscura, a short film and mostly a travelogue of Venice.
Rousseau always comes off as the odd duck among Post Impressionists. However, after this exhibit, he appears much more interesting and seems to have been an influence on Picasso and others who came after.
We split a sandwich and each had a drink:
Ice (left) and lily with fly:
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