On the way home this evening I sat next to a very charming lady. She’d been to an exhibition, had a well-thumbed copy of Understanding Visual Arts and a bag of goodies that included prints of Matisse.<\/p>\n
I know very little about Henri Matisse but she was a lovely person to sit next to – very enthused by her subject. She’s studying a course at Bruno<\/strike> Brookes University. I asked how she came to be on her Art History degree and she talked about aspects of her life, her marriage, her work at Oxford University, her husband’s ailing health until his demise and then her need to ‘keep busy’.<\/p>\n
There’s little else I can say about her except she was a lively conversationalist, a lovely person and a very interesting woman. Oh yes, and in her outlook and attitude she was the youngest old person I’ve met in many years.<\/p>\n
It’s a pleasure to meet some people, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n p.s. This is also an RSS feed test. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n p.p.s. I only know two facts about Henri Matisse – that he was born the same year that Cutty Sark was launched, and he died the same year that the first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Bikini Atoll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the way home this evening I sat next to a very charming lady. She’d been to an exhibition, had a well-thumbed copy of Understanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}