Last week I finally found time to get to the Velasquez show in London at the National Gallery and thank god I did. Speaking now as a practising painter I can honestly say no exhibition has impressed me so much, purely from a technical point of view, how the paint was applied to the canvas, it was a truly astonishing show. Having seen it I now understand fully what Manet meant when he called Velasquez "a painters' painter". No realist painter should have missed this show, and when i get time over the next few days I wil post a more detailed review.

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