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@ 2009-08-25 – 20:17:28
Well, I don't have time to say very much so I will let the details I photographed in the art galleries speak for me!
These details are of Brueghel paintings - the winter scene and the cattle. Then I focused on animal details because they attracted me and I wanted my photos to be a record of where my eye lingered. I liked the detail of the shoe. And then cupid and Venus - much more robust than some depictions!
QueeneMab
hobbyhorse
Do you know the painting? I had always liked it in reproduction but the actual painting was incredibly moving. It's called The hunters in the snow and you can see it online.
http://www.nancyhuntting.net/Bruegel-Talk.html
http://www.artofeurope.com/brueghel/bru10.htm
It's a gorgeous painting. You just look and look and look.
xxx
QueeneMab
Yes, in that I have seen it in books, never actually in real life.
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hobbyhorse
It's great actually in reproduction too. I was surprised because sometimes things are so different in real life. BUt seeing Breughel was like meeting a long lost relative for the first time - moving and yet very familiar. I really do recommend Vienna!
xx
catsInVienna
I like the painting with shoes and the last best. Yesterday I visited the Museum of Nature History, it was a great experience.
Many greetings
Helga
hobbyhorse
I love the shoes. And I love the way one of them is kicked off.
There is a great Natural History Museum here in Oxford too.
With a brilliant gallery called the Pitt Rivers Museum created in the 19th century and full of curiosities.
xx
catsInVienna
Yes it is a masterpiece. I have not ever been in Oxford, only London and Brighton. I think that Oxford is a very nice place. The gallery sounds interesting.
hobbyhorse
I lived in Brighton when I was a student. It's a great place. Quite different from Oxford.
catsInVienna
A lot of British people studied in Brighton. I have not seen a university there. I visited Brighton 20 years ago, and I think I was not very interested in universities.I liked the sea and the antique shops and the lovely restaurants.
SeasideMan
Pro Weirdly, there is a reproduction Breughel in the gents toilet at my local pub. How weird is that?
hobbyhorse
Weird but strangely apt. Canaletto painted a lot of urinating men in the corners of his paintings. I wouldn't mind betting that there's one in a Brueghel somewhere!
SeasideMan
Pro I'm prepared to bet you are right!
rubychoo
The one and only time I visited Amsterdam was on a school trip on a particularly cold February many years ago ...
The canals were frozen for 30 miles, so I cycled through exactly that landscape with my breath refusing to reach my lungs, thinking of that painting ...
hobbyhorse
That's a wonderful memory. xx
catsInVienna
Lovely photos they are looking like the paintings!
many greetings
helga
hobbyhorse
That's true!
;-)
catsInVienna
Do you have the paintings at home? smile???!! I think that was a scandal in Vienna and I read it in all papers. But it is a good idea to go "shopping" in this museum, this museum and the Albertina have a lot of value paintings. Then we can go shopping in London s museums. smile. lol
I have not know that it is allowed to take pictures in the museum. I visit every week a museum, but not yet the Kunsthistorische Museum (I visited it for 10 years ago)
hobbyhorse
Yes they make a lovely show in my living room. But it was a shame to cut them up into little pieces to get into my bag!
Yes photos were allowed! I hate it when people take photos with flash when it's not allowed - they say it damages the paint. But you were allowed to take photos without flash - not at the Belvedere though.
I still tried to be careful and not get in anyone's way or on their nerves. There's something odd about people taking photos rather than actually looking at the paintings!
catsInVienna
Lol. May I have a little, tiny piece of the shoes??!! I have birthday in April, oh it is a nice christmas present.
Photos: In Schönbrunn it is not allowed to take pictures and in some exhibitions. I agree, it is a shame that people take photos with flash. Some paintings are so value and these stupid people ...
I took a photo of michaelangelos painting, the last supper (sorry i do not the English word) in Milano. They were very angry with me and I was ashamed, I had not read the sign "NO PICTURES ALLOWED". A great shook for me, I love art, and I took a photo! I was stupid, but now I am asking the guides about taking photos in the exhibition or museum.
hobbyhorse
The shoes are yours!
The Last Supper is exactly right!
It's a wonderful painting but very damaged. Leonardo da Vinci actually. He was a great experimenter and used paint techniques that didn't last.
This link is rather a good show of the painting:
http://milan.arounder.com/da_vinci_last_supper/IT000005356.html
It has had a lot said about it - certainly Leonardo da Vinci was capable of hiding symbols but who knows if he did. Certainly the geometry and composition of the painting is fab. I once went to an Italian exhibition that moved the people from sitting upright to their final positions in a sort of amazing animation. It was fascinating how it all moved around the central figure of Christ.
catsInVienna
Oh that is nice. I need a new pair of shoes! smile
Oh it was leonardo, you are right. Thank you for the link. Did you study art?
hobbyhorse
No I didn't study art but I wanted to. I lived in Italy for ten years and that was an education in art! xxxx
catsInVienna
I see! I love Italy. I was born in Carinthia, border to Italy. I go by car in 20 minutes to Italy. It is a great country, with fantastic architecture and art.
What does the xxxx mean?
hobbyhorse
Oh xxx is kisses!
I can't do the smileys - well not the actual icons only the :-) ones! So I do kisses instead.
catsInVienna
I can not also do the smileys.
There are some photos from the exhibition Wir sind Maske - about masks from Vienna to Mexico.
http://picasaweb.google.com/oelwechselkurs/Wir_sind_maske#
And the photo exhibition in the Museumsquartier.
http://picasaweb.google.com/oelwechselkurs/Portraetfotografie_Kunsthalle_Wien#
hobbyhorse
I will check those sites out. xx
Miza-T
Not my favourite style of painting, but I appreciate "reading" the stories they tell,
xx
hobbyhorse
They certainly tell a lot of stories. xxx
catsInVienna
In Vienna there is an exhibition about Japanese and India art (Kunsthaus and Essl) after my test I will visit these exhibitions. I visited a photo exhibition, great photos, I have some on my blog! In Vienna there is a photo museum, it called Westlicht, there I visited an exhibition about people who died (the photos were taken after a few hours after they died) It was sad, but I like the idea to give the dead a new face, a face in arts. The faces of the people were very peaceful.
good night!
Helga
hobbyhorse
I think I saw an article about those photos. Also what is your test? Is it your uni exams?
I love Indian art. The British Museum here often does exhibitions about India and the East.
catsInVienna
I start study on February. It is only a test about the Biology and Anatomy for animals. I have not ever seen Indian art.
janetweightreed
Beautiful details...thank you
hobbyhorse
Thanks! :-)
I love the painting, Hunters in the Snow by Breughel. Thank you so much for putting the link on. Ive read all the comments.
Thanks so much for sharing the lovely pictures of your holiday in Vienna and the very special, Brueghel.
xxx
hobbyhorse
Thanks. Brueghel is a very special artist. For me the only other artist who has had me in tears in front of his paintings was Velazquez.
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I like the winter scene best.
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