Frick Out ( At the Frick Collection)

I was first disappointed by the Medieval art salon and the detestable Rococo murals that you see when you enter the galleries; " a miniature Met museum", I thought. But when you get in what seems to be the living hall, and at one side of the fireplace, you encounter -a third kind encounter- hitting upon your face, this magnificent Holbein, a portrait of no other than Thomas More, the author of "Utopia".

A magnificent "St Jerome" by El Greco. A wonderful sea scape by Whistler, greyish, rythmical waves and boats disappearing in the atmosphere; economy of means, scratched surface to produce planes and shapes. taking off rather than adding layers, the way only a Velazquez could do. The "Mortlake Terrace" by Willian Turmer. A wonderful Corot landscape.

The best self-portrait of Rembrandt you will ever see, so many centuries ahead of his time, expressionistic in style, magestically and absolutey constructed and structured by planes of color, rich in visual texture, abyssal depth and those eyes, so acute and piercing your soul, mirror of his intelligent, chrystaline soul, reflection of psi energy or whatever you want to call it. If you ever had doubts that the soul cannot exist after death, just look at those eyes.