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").


























































Madrid Fashion Week favourites, fall-winter 2014






























Wednesday, 23 April 2014

World book day




 
If eventually vegetal books are going to become luxury/prestige items, we might as well start enjoying them now.



Saturday, 19 April 2014

Friday, 18 April 2014

Quote




A writer is not an intellectual, (s)he is a sentimental.



Gabriel García Márquez

Saturday, 12 April 2014

About painting





From left to right: Julie Manet, Paul Valéry, Paule Gobillard, Ernest Rouart and Jeannie Gobillard. 



Source:  henkverveer from the Netherlands


About me


My current wallpaper



Jean Béraud, Une soirée,1878
A painting from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris

(this image 3543x1975 px)

Meet Béraud. What would his opinion be on the oil-to-pixels question?




Quote



La peinture est l'art d'aller à l'âme par l'entremise des yeux; et si l'effet s'arrète aux yeux, l'artiste n'a fait que la moindre partie du chemin.

Denis Diderot, Essais su la peinture (1796)



Painting is the art of getting to the soul through the eyes; and if the effect stops at the eyes, the artist has only made the smallest part of the way.







Bundi wall paintings










Bundi, Rajasthan, India




Saturday, 29 March 2014

A couple of links to articles that I'm finding quite hard to categorize

1.

Cockatoo perched in Renaissance painting forces rethink of history

About painting


                                               
            The female school of Art, Illustrated London News, 1868

(source: " A World of Our Own, Women as Artists" by Frances Borzello)