October 9, 2019 at 10:00 am (Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, Garden, memories, nostalgia, Redwood City, summer
It’s been a while since self has done Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. So happy to join the challenge this week: CIRCLES, CURVES, AND ARCHES.
Dropped by Diane Varner’s El Granada studio, about a month ago. She’s growing succulents!
Self’s Plum Tree in August, 2019
Cleaning Out Closet in Son’s Room, Found These Old Toys!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 8, 2019 at 9:41 am (Artists and Writers, Links)
Tags: art, exhibits, Ireland
For this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, FILLING THE FRAME, self chose to focus on a large painting by Irish artist Jacinta O’Reilly.
The painting is called “Masks” and was in her recent exhibit at the Naas Public Library in Ireland.
Jacinta told self that she painted “Masks” on her birthday, Sept. 8.
The impact is emotional. But it is even more rewarding to look up close, where one can examine the painting’s textured surface. To think all of this was painted in one day!
Jacinta O’Reilly, Naas Public Library, 5 October 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
August 27, 2019 at 12:44 am (Artists and Writers, Family, Links, Surprises)
Tags: art, memories, Mondays, nostalgia, Redwood City
The prompt — Framing the Shot — is Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 60: “Explore different ways of framing images.”
Viveka has some great framing shots on her blog, my guilty pleasures.
Self’s home in Redwood City was built in 1939. It’s a very wee house, only 1250 square feet, but she loves the arched spaces (between the living and dining room). Arches are a kind of frame, aren’t they? But here the frame is off-center.
The painting above the bookshelf is one she brought from the Philippines: a collage by the late, great Filipino artist Santi Bose. It’s called The White Room. There’s a kind of “frame within the frame” thing going on.
Redwood City, Sunday, 25 August 2019
The next two pictures are recent finds from son’s closet. The building blocks date from when he was a toddler. The pieces were all neatly arranged in the original wooden box:
And here’s another find from son’s closet! Clay on cardboard:
Cryptic Grade School Art Arrangement
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
May 6, 2019 at 5:13 pm (Artists and Writers, Holidays, Links, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, Dublin, exhibits, Ireland, Mondays
Walked around Dublin with visual artista Jacinta O’Reilly. We were going to check out the Chester Beatty but, disappointingly, the museum was closed.
While waiting for Jacinta, self checked out the Surface Matters exhibit at Dublin Castle. Amazing show. Featured stunning pieces by, among others, Alan Meredith, Cecilia Moore, Jack Doherty, Coilin O Dubhghaill, Ciaran McGill, Mike Byrne, Joe Hogan, Grainne Watts.
The medium used in Picture # 1: wood
Took pictures of several “three-of-a-kind.”
Alan Meredith’s “Wood”
Mike Byrne, Limerick Artist
Joe Hogan’s “Venus Figure Pods”
Stay tuned.
April 11, 2019 at 7:20 pm (Artists and Writers, The Economist)
Tags: art, inspiration, museum
An article on Artemisia Gentileschi is in the Books section.
Illustration: Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes
“Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria was acquired last year by the National Gallery in London, becoming only the 21st work by a woman in a 2,300-piece collection.”
Artemisia Gentileschi was the “first female artist to be admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.” She was raped by Agostino Tassi, who her father had hired “to teach her perspective.” Her father “petitioned the pope for compensation. His daughter was considered damaged goods.” The case went to trial. Tassi, found guilty, “was exiled from Rome,” but continued to receive commissions from successive popes.
Gentileschi was “married off to a mediocre artist” but “nevertheless set up her own studio . . . She worked in Naples and London. She became the great artist she always wanted to be.”
“A play about Gentileschi’s travails that won awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, transferred to London and will soon be staged elsewhere.”
“Roughly 60 paintings by Gentileschi survive . . . ”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 1, 2019 at 3:12 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Recommended, Tel Aviv, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, England, Fridays, Israel, literary festivals, poetry
Thanks once again to Cee Neuner for the Fun Foto Challenge!
Last October, self was in the historic English town of Winchester, which was hosting a Poetry Festival. The next Winchester Poetry Festival will be October 2020.
Winchester, England: City Map, October 2018
Tel Aviv Artist Reuven Rubin
A friend made this bag for self.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 24, 2019 at 4:18 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Holidays, Links, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: art, Cambridge, Cee Neuner, England, Events, exhibits, London, museums, translation
This week, Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge is BLUE AND YELLOW.
As it’s a grey and chilly morning where self is, the Blue and Yellow will come from her archives.
Here’s a picture she took in Heathrow, December 2018. Somewhat blue and yellow:
The Oceania Exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art in London. The yellow is in the gilt frames on the wall.
Finally, sign on a sidewalk in front of Blackwell’s bookstore in Cambridge, England. Blue and Yellow, upper right-hand corner:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 22, 2019 at 4:57 pm (Artists and Writers, Recommended, The New York Times)
Tags: art, causes, documentaries, experimental, review
Excerpt from A. O. Scott review of Adina Pintilie’s semi-documentary Touch Me Not (The New York Times, Friday, 11 January 2019), which self really wants to see:
Bodies Are a Wonderland (Entry Restricted)
Propelled by intuition, emotion and philosophical inquiry rather than by plot, Pintile’s debut feature is a semidocumentary essay exploring what it means — how it feels, why it matters — to dwell inside a body. You could say that what the film is about lies just beyond the reach of images or words. It’s a necessarily cerebral meditation on the nature of physicality.
The director’s initial verbal reticence contrasts with both the eloquence of some of her characters and subjects and the explicitness of the images she captures. Nakedness and intimacy — the first almost too easy to achieve, the second almost impossibly difficult — are the basic themes of Touch Me Not.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 21, 2019 at 12:24 am (Dearest Mum, Family, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Philippine History, Sundays)
Tags: art, exhibits, Manila, memories, The Philippines
Self’s childhood home in Manila was crammed with santoses (religious statues). Dearest Mum collected them.
L: San Vicente Ferrer R: San Pedro Martir
The santos carvers were unknown. It was an industry, like making furniture. The head and hands of the figures were usually ivory.
The caption for San Pedro Martir reads, in entirety:
Batikuling is a Philippine tree, presently listed as endangered.
Stay tuned.
September 25, 2018 at 10:55 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Places)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, exhibits, Gardens, Golden Gate Park, museums, nostalgia, Redwood City, San Francisco, The Philippines
Love Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge!
This week’s challenge is PASTEL COLORS.
It turned out to be surprisingly hard to find photos with predominantly pastel colors!
These flesh-coloured gourd plants were at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers:
The Magritte exhibit at SFMOMA on self’s birthday in July:
A bit of nostalgia:
Map of the Philippines, Son’s Room in Redwood City, California
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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