About painting

George Wimpenny, Clara Potts sitting at an easel painting a still life of flowers, 1897

Postcard from Berlin

Madrid Book Fair 2015

 

Open air fair at the Retiro park in Madrid, from 29th May to 14th June

Go for the books, go for the lively atmosphere too.

Did you know...?

...that the words "text" and "textile" are family? 

 Why?
 Because they both derive from the latin word "textus", that meant "thing woven",

 (textus being the past participle stem of texere which meant "to weave, to join, fit together, braid, interweave, construct, fabricate, build,")

Can you think of ways in which a text is "woven"?

Yep, yet another joy thanks to the Online Etymology Dictionary

This made me smile

This is was happens when you give an artist a simple task to do

flow magazine

I've discovered the lovely flow magazine.  It's so full of wonderful illustrations,  what a good not-online find.

Street art

A garden in Lüneburg

Good question to start off your day

Why isn't Laokoön shouting? Aesthetics or anaesthetics? Where's the pleasure in painful representations in art?

Quote

Art is beautiful, it gives a lot work, though

Karl Valentin

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

Note: If you liked "Bags, chapter II", you'll probably like "Bags, chapter I"

Berlin skyline

August quiz

In which painting do we find this lady, all set and ready to go?

Window display: books