One Man Exhibition

[poliphilo]

I dreamed someone had arranged an exhibition of my artwork without my knowledge. "But have you included any of my abstracts?" I asked- and they hadn't- so I got busy selecting some for last minute inclusion. The Queen attended the opening- and I was trying to explain my sources of inspiration to her- with little success. (I wonder whether Cromwell got tongue-tied when talking to Charles I?) By this stage I was beginning to wonder whether everything on display was actually mine...

Did I really paint all those pictures of trolls?

Perhaps I will.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The last British Royals to care about the arts were Victoria and Albert. Their taste may have run to Landseer and Winterhalter and Scottish baronial architecture- stuff we don't much care for these days- but the enthusiasm was real, not feigned. And Albert also collected Italian "primitives".