At the Phillips Collection

Gentle visitors, your humble Contributer visited the Phillips Collection recently with some of the poor Relations.  What follows are his observations, fashioned in rhyming couplets to bring some literary feel to the visual arts.

Cézanne painted a handsome pear
Manet sketched a Baudelaire
Monet made a fine impression
Van Gogh gave ear to depression
Renoir rendered a nauti-soiree
Degas depicted a pre-ballet
Gauguin inked a Tahitian chick
And,
I drew only a figure in stick. 

Comments

[Blue Clinkers]

Remainderman!, I, too, was at the Phillips with some family members--but it was June 17, so we just missed seeing you. However, your poem sums up rather neatly your aesthetic experience: I feel as if I am seeing those works through your very eyes!

The William Merritt Chase exhibit is worth a return trip--and perhaps a poem. If you're able to prevail once again upon your poor Relations...