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September 28, 2005
'Gauguin's Vision'
The National Gallery of Scotland hosts a major exhibition each year to coincide with the festival. Unfortunately they have been becoming less and less major each year.
The 2003 ‘Monet: the Seine and the Sea’ in the (re-opened and splendidly reorganized) Royal Scottish Academy was a fine exhibition, including paintings from a number of galleries in Europe and America. ‘The Age of Titian’ in 2004 was interesting though it had less ‘Titian’ and more of ‘the age’ than expected, with relatively few paintings from outside the collection.
‘Gauguin’s Vision’ was more disappointing. It was not devoted to his ‘vision’ as an artist, but to a specific painting, the ‘Vision of the Sermon’, already in the Scottish collection. Only a handful of additional paintings were sourced from outside the collection. “Is that it?”, I asked the attendant as I finished the last gallery. He seemed used to the question.
Note to the National Gallery: please don’t film while the public are in the galleries, OK? Making a lot of noise, obstructing access to the paintings with camera equipment, using onlookers as extras etc. is not the best way to encourage attendance.
Posted by Simon Holledge at September 28, 2005 10:08 PM
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