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Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Andrea del Sarto - Donkey

Found this while I was searching for other images today. Andrea del Sarto is better known for his 16th century Madonna and Child paintings. I always like collecting sketches and paintings and prints of animals from art history, though it is rarely what I am actually working on. I like ones that are touching or funny or... well basically I like most of them.


I really like this 17th century one by Stefano Della Bella of a sleeping puppy as well.

Oh and while I am at it I saw this painting in the Ballarat Art Gallery the other day. I love it. I think it is funny the way it is a huge huge bull but with pretty eyes and a girly face.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Thursday

It has suddenly occurred to me that simply using the days of the week as titles might not work so well after my first week. I will have to think it through.

Thursday I studied hard, I am experimenting with a new approach to study called 'Getting up at a normal hour'. Seems to be working, somewhere along the way I had forgotten that I am very productive in the mornings.

I decided to get coffee, I don't drink it much these days as it makes me hyperactive/anxious.

In the evening I went to an opening at uplands gallery, the art was good. The artist is Michelle Ussher. The paintings (and one sculpture) are quite dark. There were some on canvas and some on paper. I liked the ones of horses walking away partly because as a child I used to draw horses walking away all the time. I liked the shaped of their behinds, I even used to draw it on everyone's birthday cards.

I also caught up with J and T and e (e is the baby so lower case geddit?)

Here are my pictures, I don't like to take photos of the art as it isn't mine and you should go and look at it but you get a glimpse via the invite card. You can also see it here.

 
First I had a campari, I always eat my orange slice afterward.

  
Then I decided to have a Peroni as it is one of my favourite beers simply because it has good memories associated with Rome. It made me burp a bit.




Then I decided to take a photo of people's legs in case you were wondering what kind of shoes people wear to gallery openings in Melbourne.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Isn't this a beautiful portrait?

As posted on the National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) blog. It is by Yolanda del Amo and called 'Sarah, David'. From this exhibition .