{"id":14356,"date":"2014-04-21T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T12:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14356"},"modified":"2014-08-10T16:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T15:29:29","slug":"viewing-the-wonderful-cut-outs-of-henri-matisse-with-delightful-czech-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14356","title":{"rendered":"Viewing the wonderful cut-outs of Henri Matisse with delightful Czech mates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a very busy, but very enjoyable, Easter hosting a visit by two Czech friends to our home in London. We have known Kaca. the daughter of our dear, deceased friend Pavel [my tribute to him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/In-Memoriam.html#Pavel\">here<\/a>], since she was three, whereas we have only met Lenka, married to one of Kaca&#8217;s cousins, once before.<\/p>\n<p>They are both 29, both really attractive, both so humorous, both very bright (Kaca is an economist and Lenka is a doctor), so it was an absolute delight to spend time with them. They were with us for five nights and four full days and I went out with them on three of the days to act as a tourist guide.<\/p>\n<p>We saw so many tourist sights and ate some delicious food, while they tried out no fewer than four London pubs. \u00a0For me, a highlight was when I accompanied them to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\">Tate Modern<\/a> art gallery to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/exhibition\/henri-matisse-cut-outs\">exhibition of cut-outs by Henri Matisse<\/a> (the exhibition only opened the day after they arrived and runs to 7 September).<\/p>\n<p>Usually at art exhibitions, I like some of the work but am not so keen on other pieces, but I loved everything at this fabulous exhibition. The bright colours and vibrant designs are so exuberant that savouring them is a joy. If I had to choose a favourite work from the 130 on display, it would probably be the one titled <a href=\"http:\/\/nest.rckshw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bees-1948.jpg\">&#8220;The Bees&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Matisse.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"3\" \/><br \/>\nLenka and Kaca at Tate Modern.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a very busy, but very enjoyable, Easter hosting a visit by two Czech friends to our home in London. We have known Kaca. the daughter of our dear, deceased friend Pavel [my tribute to him here], since she was three, whereas we have only met Lenka, married to one of Kaca&#8217;s cousins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14356"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15352,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions\/15352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}