Love or Lust? Life or Death?

Sometimes I wish there could be Museum which would only expose one painting at a time. It would force the eyes and the mind to enter the scene, to imagine the story, to dwell and go beyond.

Perhaps because today, we swim in overexposure and uberexplanation and then video reality it all. Anyway!

I got lost in this scene and a while later, I could feel the crisp of sheets, the warm air of Paris, the exhaustion…

Their story is about love and lust, desire and conquest, money and status of course. Ultimately it is about life or death.

Henri Gervex and the whirlwind of emotions he painted in Rolla.