The Guy Who Was Looking Like Lou

I was in the P&C Art Gallery in Georgetown and a guy who was looking like Lou was smiling at me as he was hanged on the wall.

Okay, let's take it one by one. Firstly who is Lou and secondly what about the guy who was looking like Lou?

Lou is a fine fellow, sometimes moody (not as moody as me, though): an architect with great achievements in Jerusalem and some other places in the world. If you can read Romanian, here is an essay of him. If you don't know Romanian, believe my word: he's fine.

As for the guy who was looking like Lou, that's Frederick Hart, a very well-known sculptor here in Washington. The bas relief on the portal of the Washington National Cathedral is created by Hart. The bronze sculpture at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Three Servicemen) is also by him.

It's an interesting case-study: in a world dominated in art by the non-figurative, Hart remained firmly representational.

The P&C Art Galleries host many of his bronze and acrylic sculptures. I like to stroll without any rush among them: the triumph of light over the material.

So the charade is now solved. A great sculptor was smiling from the wall mirroring in my mind a great architect.






(P&C Art)