Thursday, 24 April 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
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?
(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.
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
Discovery of an animal more closely associated with Sydney than Venice is leading to a revision of early trading networks
2.
2.
'Kangaroo' sketch suggests Portuguese may have beaten Dutch to Australia
About painting
The female school of Art, Illustrated London News, 1868
(source: " A World of Our Own, Women as Artists" by Frances Borzello)
Spring quiz
(It's not an art quiz this time)
What feature have you got in your computer, a feature that you have probably used at some point, and can be traced back to the invention of an important figure of the the Italian Renaissance, around the XV century?
I'll give you some time.
...
....
It's not the zeros, those are Arabic.
..
Clue number 1: I have it right in front of me right now because Blogspot uses it.
No?
And the answer is...
Italics
A humanist called Niccolo de Niccoli, who was born and lived in Florence, was the first to use the cursive script in his copying of ancient manuscripts, a task he really rejoiced in, and this kind of handwriting became the origin of the Italics typeface in printing. Thank you sir, it's been quite useful for quite a few people through the centuries.
Friday, 28 March 2014
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Maybe I shouldn't
Maybe I shouldn't.
Probably I shouldn't.
I know I shouldn't.
It sounds weird.
Irrelevant.
A bit like preaching,
Definitely not appropiate.
I should think twice...
What the ..., here I go:
WOMEN OF THE WORLD!!!!
There's no way you are ever going to become:
strong, spontaneous, romantic, sensual, femenine, mysterious, independant, assertive, interesting, charming, modern, elegant, powerful, unique, attractive, fascinating, enigmatic, self-assured or intelligent....
BY WEARING ANY KIND OF PERFUME
There, I said it, what a relief. This feels good. Thanks.
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