Matisse at Night

The train was delayed again and I felt out of control for the rest of the day - I am a control freak if you hadn't realised

I didn't like any of my photos, so as you have mainly seen the Winchester painted bollards in the daylight, I blipped another in the dark.

This is the likeness of a Matisse.

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse, 31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954, was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

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Smile factor: Singing at choir

Exercise: Mr F is away on business so I walked Milo after choir practice. It was dark and we were walking down a very dark path. I was scared, so Milo and I ran very quickly

PS I've added the bollard to the Winchester Bollard series - there are some missing - I will try to rectify that