The gift

In the first week of May, I received a small surprise gift package in my home mailbox. It contained a few things you could place in a scrapbook and was given to me by one of the Korean students I met on Zoom. One of the items was a matchbox-size pack of stamps. To be clear, they were not postage stamps, although they were similar in size. However, these stamps are generally placed on things like books, letters or suitcases. What was unique about these stick-on stamps is that all 28 were grouped by the common quality of fine art, each showing different kinds of paintings by renowned and eminent persons from Europe and North America. Surely you know the Frenchmen: Cezanne, Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gauguin and Matisse. Represented also were Spain’s Picasso, Greece’s El Greco and the Dutch painter mononymously known as Rembrandt. I learned that all the acquired paintings were housed in exhibition spaces just right outside of Boston, Massachusetts, in the Worcester Art Museum — a museum that I didn’t know existed until now. I had not revisited these artists in more than five deWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times