I also don't go to every single painting; I scan the walls and go to those that call to me. The first one that drew me in was the one you see above. It's called "Tree Trunks in the Grass", and it was painted some time during the last six months of Van Gogh's life.
As I "listened" for other paintings (and about half a dozen kept pulling me back), I remembered the first (and only other) Van Gogh exhibit I saw some years ago in Toronto. I used my strategy then and got hypnotised by a contemporary of Van Gogh's named Louis Anquetin. See if you agree:
Oh, and there really is a blue moon tonight.
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Makes me wish I could visit Paris back then
That Louis has a huge range of style and subject didn't he. Captivating.
I like your strategy. Very clever. I shall steal it and give it go next time. I don't think it would have worked at the Ron Mueck exhibit I went to though. Every piece was several deep in people.
I've never seen a blue moon. We had one just recently and I forgot to look...
It works best if you're in the first group going in, SOL. You do get odd looks from security, though. And I'll bet you've seen plenty of blue moons without knowing it; they're not that rare, despite the expression, happening every few years.
I have been known to do the backwards viewing trick. And I like to let pictures call to me first, though if I have time I usually do look at the rest later (otherwise I'd always wonder what I'd missed in the detail).
Oh absolutely, Rob! To drag in a materialistic note, if I've paid that kind of money for an exhibition, I do want some context, so I do look at the other pictures too. However, with my method, I go away with some favourites and some memories.
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