Yesterday we spent a good part of the day at the Centre Pompidou, enjoying (I think that is the right word) the dark and difficult paintings and artworks of Anselm Kiefer. He's about John's age and was born into the ruins of post World War II Germany. His paintings are designed and painted to stop the German amnesia about that war. At first John hated the show, but as we walked through and talked about the works, he began to enjoy it, though immensely is not a word he'd use. Ben, on the other hand, found the paintings very complicated but understood the rationale that they derived from, and the artist's complex personality and history. He looks at the Germanic myths that are part of the pre-World War II Nazi state and how they led to misery and darkness.
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