Tip-Off #71 - More beauty

"How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory." - Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

Apr 20, 2023

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File:Jean Siméon Chardin - The Provider (La Pourvoyeuse) - WGA04759.jpg — Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin La Pourvoyeuse,1739 Oil on canvas, 47 x 38 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris. (Wikimedia)

After reading Proust instead of reading about him, I appreciate the critic who said, "I have that odd feeling you get when a piece of art so culturally enshrined as to become meaningless turns out to be - stop the presses - really rather good…

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