Good Days
So today Kit brought me home an indian head penny from 1909 that she came across today :D
I have something of a small amateur collection of coins; this made me giddy happy.
I'm right now having peppermint tea with raspberry sugar(!)
I'm painting.
I went to the MFA yesterday. Apparently the college library has four(4) passes available for check out for free admission. I have to do that because no more student admission :( Anyway, they have an awesome little Toulouse-Latrec show up in one of the minor corridors. Mostly his drawings and sketches. Daaaamn that guy had good skills with a pencil. Reminds me of shatterstripes's work (and she should go see it *ahem*).
They also had on display that ubiquitous furry icon Le Chat Noir. Which is much larger than I thought it would be! The cat itself is easily 6 foot. The artist, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, was apparently a hero to Toulouse-Latrec.
The museum also had more information up on Sargent's mural paintings. It cleared up some misconceptions I had about this work. And omg he did it in the last couple decades of his life, and it was something he intentionally wanted to do for posterity in the same mode as the Sistine Chapel and other Old Master mural works. Impressive!
And, Dutch portraiture is incredible.
And, the Museum also had on temporary display modern art from India from the 50's-70's. Stuff I have absolutely no prior knowledge of. Very abstract stuff. Some of it obviously informed by Picasso, but much of it pushing into cooooool places. Big ragged chunks of color. Ugh, can't describe it. Bleh. Anyway, I think kamenkyote would dig it. The exhibition had a good catalog to go with it, so I picked him up a copy :)
and the sculptor Rodin's frickin' awesome.
I didn't try to look at everything. It's free, I'll go back later. After an hour I came home :)
Sketched these two things for later. This painting by Edmund Tarbell had a lovely composition and gesture that I think I want to use for something. I dashed in Frida Kahlo instead because why not. The horse statues in the old Chinese Art section have great faces that I want to reference later as well.
And omg I'm making the best frickin' pancakes lately. I'm not even kidding about this.
I have something of a small amateur collection of coins; this made me giddy happy.
I'm right now having peppermint tea with raspberry sugar(!)
I'm painting.
I went to the MFA yesterday. Apparently the college library has four(4) passes available for check out for free admission. I have to do that because no more student admission :( Anyway, they have an awesome little Toulouse-Latrec show up in one of the minor corridors. Mostly his drawings and sketches. Daaaamn that guy had good skills with a pencil. Reminds me of shatterstripes's work (and she should go see it *ahem*).
They also had on display that ubiquitous furry icon Le Chat Noir. Which is much larger than I thought it would be! The cat itself is easily 6 foot. The artist, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, was apparently a hero to Toulouse-Latrec.
The museum also had more information up on Sargent's mural paintings. It cleared up some misconceptions I had about this work. And omg he did it in the last couple decades of his life, and it was something he intentionally wanted to do for posterity in the same mode as the Sistine Chapel and other Old Master mural works. Impressive!
And, Dutch portraiture is incredible.
And, the Museum also had on temporary display modern art from India from the 50's-70's. Stuff I have absolutely no prior knowledge of. Very abstract stuff. Some of it obviously informed by Picasso, but much of it pushing into cooooool places. Big ragged chunks of color. Ugh, can't describe it. Bleh. Anyway, I think kamenkyote would dig it. The exhibition had a good catalog to go with it, so I picked him up a copy :)
and the sculptor Rodin's frickin' awesome.
I didn't try to look at everything. It's free, I'll go back later. After an hour I came home :)
Sketched these two things for later. This painting by Edmund Tarbell had a lovely composition and gesture that I think I want to use for something. I dashed in Frida Kahlo instead because why not. The horse statues in the old Chinese Art section have great faces that I want to reference later as well.
And omg I'm making the best frickin' pancakes lately. I'm not even kidding about this.