Pretty Ladies

Alphonse Mucha is amazing. He was a commercial artist who created these pretty ladies for Job cigarette papers and other advertisements. Now he's more well known as an fine artist. Mucha's highly stylized and decorative portraits gave birth to what we know as Art Nouveau.

So let's all plan a trip to Prague to visit the museum. Shall we? I've never been to there. But everyone I know who has been to this gem of Eastern Europe, has fallen in love with it, and dreamed of revisiting.
Just thought I'd share.

I have a fantasy about being able to travel around the world to see the world's greatest museums and to visit galleries. I wish I had enough money to be an art collector, maybe even an art dealer. For me musicians and artists are as good a reason as any to travel to a new city.

But mostly I love art and artists because art is universal. I believe that good art transcends age and time and race. Most of the accomplished local fine artists that I know are much older than myself. And when I talk to them about their lives or families I feel like a polite listener, but when we discuss the art world and they're work or mine we become equals.

And I can't wait for the day that I get to walk on the streets of Prague like Samantha Brown from the Travel Channel, go to the museum and stare at Mucha's work from two inches away.