I had a wonderful discussion with Ron today., It all started with me “composing” a poem for Neesha, sitting opposite to me and singing.. All started laughing out., Well I cited them the case of Vincent Van Gough(pronounced gouf), who was not appreciated during his lifetime, and was appreciated well after his death.
I have seen Gough’s “Yellow Sunflower” painting(in a photo).. Its good. As I wanted to know more about paintings, I went to Ron, who was listening to all these. He has a good knowledge. He told me the bits and pieces of Van Gough’s story., He also told about Monet(pronounced Mo-ney as in neigh). Monet was an impressionist and he had many paintings to his credit., He had a big garden where many people used to visit., Van Gough have stayed there to work on paintings for sometime. Van Gough thought his paintings to be rubbish, moreover he has dumped by the girl whom he loved. Ron told that, when he was rejected by the girl, he cut his right ear and gave to the girl(not a intelligent thing to do!!)., any way he died poor. But now his paintings are worth a fortune.
I asked Ron, whether he has had the feelings which one should have, when you see a really good painting. He said he had had feelings when he saw some paintings., the most distinctive one in his memory was in France. He said he had been to the gallery where Monalisa painting was kept(he told me the gallery name..I forgot), all the people were looking at the painting of monalisa(which was kept behind a bullet proof screen)., Ron said, opposite to that was this big painting of the “Last Supper”., and he had really enjoyed that painting. Discussion led to Pablo Picasso, and he told me an news item., once a Picasso painting was stolen., In the news they announced that which side of the painting was up and which was down., so that whoever had the painting has atleast hangs it properly!!!!
It was a good day and the friday bug was catching on on everyone, I left with Zakir at around 5.45, went to Homebase. Rashmi wanted some flowers for the vase, I told her that it is better to have a live plant than have cut flowers, which she agreed, but wanted me to tell the same to Zubin. In homebase, I got a good collection of plants, there was a wonderful pot of button roses., really nice., but I was wondering whether they will like them. Finally bought a white Chrysanthemum flower pot., and the pot was kept in a hand basket(woven with cane). I am sure Rashmi, Zubin and Girish will like it. From there I went to Sainsbury’s, bought water and milk and then directly came to Zubin’s house.. My weekends normally is spent at Zubin’s place..