• Lunch on the grass
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 Leave a comment
While posting yesterday on the planned new concert hall in Katowice, I remembered a couple of walks I took with Górecki’s daughter and her family while I was visiting him in 2010. One was to Nikiszowiec, which I’ll post about sometime soon. The other was on Sunday morning, 1 November, in the birch forest and parkland on the southern outskirts of the city.
A clear, crisp morning, with a couple of unusual sights: a red squirrel at close quarters
and …
something strangely reminiscent of a certain French painting. Although it has all the facial hallmarks of socialist-realist imagery of the early 1950s, I think that it must be from a later period, possibly the 1970s. I can’t work out whether it’s tongue-in-cheek or oh-too-serious … or both.