Lasting Impressionism
After the hour wait in line, 600 of us bumped punishingly through the Van Gogh exhibition from 7 to 8 a.m. on its final day. If you spotted a momentary vacancy in front of a picture, you could shoot across the room like a hindered pinball to see--back and forth--one then another, while the herd moved in abstract clumps from one picture to the next.
Still, the presence of Van Gogh’s visions outweighed the press of the throng.
Why did people flock to this exhibition? The need for beauty. The need for no-tech, handmade still pictures that are easy to understand. Images, in these times, invisible elsewhere.
Perhaps by now he has stabilized in that place in consciousness that conceived the order and peace of “The Harvest,” and perhaps he knows of the public’s great response to the beauty he produced.
DEIRDRE BABCOCK
Santa Monica
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