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I saw a couple of good exhibitions at the weekend - I went down to London on Friday to meet up with an old friend, and then stayed over. Met Mrs Freestone and the offspring in the morning, and we went first to the BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the NPG. I always enjoy it - the variety of faces and styles somehow restores my faith in humanity.
After a bit of lunch, we went round the corner to the National to see the Russian Landscape exhibition. We both thought some of the pictures we'd seen in the papers looked pretty amazing, and I wasn't disappointed. I liked the Shishkin pictures of deep, elemental forests, and also the luminous landscape pictures of the Dnieper and the steppe. Some of the other stuff I could take or leave, but overall I enjoyed it a lot.
Posted by MFreestone at August 2, 2004 10:37 PM