sydney day 3

Before going to sleep I had closed the security latch and slept deeply having decided to ignore the house keeper if she knocked .

Woke at 10:00

I am not sure if the housekeeper knocked or not.

10:05 Shower

10:15 have a breakfast of wholemeal bread, banana, glass of coke and a cup of black tea

10:30 depart hotel

Walk into the city along the tram route and through china town to central station

11:20 catch train from central station to martin place

Walked up martin place, through the hospital and across the park and arrive at the art gallery of nsw

12:00 purchased ticket for the Picasso exhibition for the one o’clock time slot

12:30 decide that after coffee, toilet stop and a quick examination of the rest of the gallery that I shall attempt an early entry to the Picasso exhbition.

The exhibition is very comprehensive, but still has only a limited number of examples from the diverse and prolific production of this important artist. We all experience such exhibitions differently based on our preconceptions education, and mood on the day. I walk away not with the impression of a man who was not involved with the world, but one whose complicated personal life was further complicated by the world around him. , Picasso’s complex relationship with the women in his life is expressed through his art. Picasso sometimes creates caricatures of the women in life, sometimes he satirises them, at other times he objectifies them and at times he represents them as the cause of anxiety. Picasso in his representations of women brings the modern female, and the primitive together in a genuinely new way giving them solidity of form while retaining feminity.

Picasso had a lifelong taste for parody and the best example of this in the exhibition was the painting lunch on the lawn , Dejeuner Sur l'herbe, that was inspired by the classic painting by Manet. Why did a painting about the choice between sacred and profane love obsess an old man? Was he re-examining the decisions he made during his life and his philandering behaviour.

17:30 walked to circular quay and purchased a glass of red and read book

19:30 walked back through the city and take photographs

Stop at supermarket Purchase salmon, whole bread roles, bananas and sprouts.

21:00 catch tram back to hotel

21:30 eat dinner smoked salmon , wholemeal bread and sprouts and bananas