This is was happens when you give an artist a simple task to do
Saturday, 9 August 2014
flow magazine
I've discovered the lovely flow magazine. It's so full of wonderful illustrations, what a good not-online find.
Friday, 8 August 2014
Good question to start off your day
Why isn't Laokoön shouting? Aesthetics or anaesthetics? Where's the pleasure in painful representations in art?
Nature going all expressionist
It didn't last long, but for a few seconds the sky caught fire. There's not a pixel of photoshop in this photo, but any painter who dared using this colour would be labeled as expressionist instead of realist.
The Palace of Darius, Susa
Reconstruction of the frieze of archers from the Palace of Darius in Susa (Ancient Persia) at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin.
This will be inspiration for Chanel for sure
Bags, chapter II
Good old Ashurbanipal, king of the Assyrian empire
from Pergamon Museum, Berlin
from Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Note: If you liked "Bags, chapter II", you'll probably like "Bags, chapter I"
Monday, 23 June 2014
7 July, Saint Fermín
Pedro Armestre got the prestigious Ortega y Gasset journalism prize for photography in 2014.
Pamplona during the "Sanfermines" festival
"I look so that others can see" Pedro Armestre
about painting
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret: Young Watercolorist in the Louvre, 1891.
Michel Cheval
Sala dell'Albergo restoration in Venice, Accademia Galleries
via Slow Venice
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Summer quiz
What word in English and some other languages derives from an old Iranian word?
Nope...
Nope...
and the answer is....
(as is in French paradis, Spanish paraíso, German Paradies, Italian paradiso, Finish paratiisi, Dutch paradijs, Hungarian paradicsom, Greek παράδεισος...)
Monday, 9 June 2014
Remedios Varo
Today I love this painting by Remedios Varo: Papilla Estelar, 1958
As regards important exhibitions, it is all about El Greco in Spain this year. Last year it was all about Surrealism (according to some, in order to mirror "l'esprit du temps").
If you'd like to check a list with all the works that were featured at the exhibition "Surrealism and the dream" at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid, you can find them all on this microsite, just click here.
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Sorolla Museum, Madrid
A well-loved museum in Madrid, and according to some reports, the best loved one.
All you need are roses, I wish.
(Some of these photos are from last year's temporary exhibition "Gardens of light").
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