Woke up to the regular and routine but wanted to get out first thing so that I could go to the Gemäldegalerie. So I did my regular for the most part but asked for a Milchkaffe zu gehen.
Yesterday before I got to the Museum Berggruen I stopped for a bite to eat at a place called Lateo off of the U-Bahn Sophie Charlotte Platz. I ordered Bruschetta mit Salat und Kasseler und ein Glass Rotwein. The dish was white toast with mayo, shredded lettuce topped with overlapping layer of pork cuts and garnished with cucumber slices and strips of red pepper sprinkled with cut chive...very light and especially went well with the wine.
From there I went to the Berggruen and thoroughly enjoyed. There were many works of Picasso there as well as a few by Matisse, as well as other artists. There was one piece that I loved and that was the one done by Picasso showing a woman on the seashore who had just bathed and was drying her feet called Seated Nude Drying her Foot (1921). I had drawn this in an art class I took a couple years ago:
Of course, mine looked nothing like the original but what a thrill to see it in all its beauty.
Others that I liked were Large Reclining Nude (1942), Minotauromachie (1935), and Dona Maar with Green Fingernails (1936):
Sorry, I can´t seem to locate the other two on the internet...sigh.
After getting home I decided to catch a film later in the evening at the local Kantstraße art cinema. I decided on David Lynch´s new film, Inland Empire. Because it was 3 hours long, the movie admission was increased from the normal price. That made sense. It was dubbed into German and it started at 2100 hours. At the refreshment stand I bought a Budweiser, the Chech Republic product, and entered the showingroom. After watching the whole thing I cannot tell you what it was entirely about. I can only skirt the edges and give you bits and pieces...and it wasn´t only because I´m not entirely fluent with the language. It was a David Lynch film! It turned out to be something about this woman (Laura Dern) who was an actress and she was stuck in a screenplay and couldn`t get out until it was played out....I´m still working on an interpretation for the movie but it sure kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. If you´re so inclined, you´ll have to see it yourself and come up with your own interpretation.
Who were those people dressed up as rabbits?
the Philharmonie and Potsdamer Platz in the background.
I enoyed the Gemäldegalerie today...in one place they had the range of 13th through 18th Century paintings from across Europe including German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and Italian. Of some interest was the work by Caravaggio called, Amor Vincit Omnia (Cupid as Victor, 1601-02)and the scandalous refutation of it by Baglione,The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros (1602-03), who tried to impose a moral perspective into art given the hagiography of the time.
Apparently, it´s a neverending story.
...photo album Berlin 5.11.2007...
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