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"To Paris with Love and Squalor."

Dear readers,as an artist I found Paris as a place where all artist should go for exibition.It is a city where you can meet the best of all audience and the worse of all critics.For I have done an exibition over there a few years back.I had a good exibition from sales piont of view and the Parisian audience is lovely.People from Paris seemed to like my work.I was showing my"The Lady in Red" series and ladies from Paris were especially keen on the romantic aspect of my work.A lot of them want to be the lady in red from my paintings.They even put on their red dresses when they visit my exibition.There was so much support from the audience even better than my home ground in Leeds,U.K.The audience there are educated in arts.

In some parts of England people are so conservative they could not appreciate fifine arts or abstract art.I found this very annoying sometimes.But Parisians could appreciate fine arts and abstracts at the same level.I could not fault the people of Paris at all,for they bought all my paintings and it was a great success.The museum was very pleased too for they got twenty percent of my sales.
Now come the part I dreaded.The critics were the hardest to please for any artist.From time immemorial they have been trashing the artist.It had become a second nature to them.They had called Paul Gauguin "the artist who paint like a buffoon,Van Gough the mad eccentrict and Picasso a cretin.
Just see what they think of me.They said"Raymond Wunna without any doubt is a bad painter,who never follows any rules.He is isolated and cut out from the world living in a little village in the central shires of England.He does not belong to any group or movement.Despite all his faults his paintings speak to us about love and beauty.We can see an artist desperatly trying to communicate.We hope to see some serious work from him as he matures".In other words I am a bad painter who dosen't follow rules and need to grow up and get serious.
From that experience I score my Paris exibition---Audience--100% love.
Critics---100% Squalor.
Raymond Wunna.