What’s today? I think it must be Saturday, Mr K didn’t go to work. Feels like I am rapidly losing track here, and I think we can safely blame that on the medication. Nothing quite like feeling a little fuzzy round the edges, which is fine if there was tequila in the equation, but not so fine if there wasn’t. I’m trying to remember what I did today and am totally coming up blank. I know we did something this morning… (several minutes later). OH that’s right…. we went out to breakfast in Balmoral this morning and then went for a bit of a stroll around Oxford Street and cruised through the bookshops.
I bought a the Taschen’s 25th Anniversary Edition of “What Great Paintings Say” which I can’t wait to get stuck into. I studied analyzing art when I was at Uni and always found it fascinating to see what we miss in paintings because we don’t see them with contemporary minds, or just because we’re not familiar with the content.
Blurb – Masterpieces under the microscope: from ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls to 20th century works Did the Greek gods play tennis? What is the ambassador from the land of Alchemy telling us? What secrets are being told on the shores of the Island of Venus? What is a monk doing on the Ship of Fools? What Great Paintings Say has the answers to these and many other burning questions asked about the most important and famous paintings of all time. In two volumes, a selection of history’s greatest masterpieces is presented chronologically, including works by Botticelli, Breughel, Chagall, Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, Dürer, Goya, Monet, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rubens, Tiepolo, Titian, and many others. Each chapter focuses on one painting, with enlarged details and in-depth texts describing their significance. Taking apart each painting and then reassembling it again like a huge jigsaw puzzle, the authors reveal the history of art as a lively panorama of forgotten worlds.
I got a couple of other books as well…. think I better check my purse for random receipts to see how much I spent given that it’s taken me a while to remember I even went. :S Other than bookshopping this morning, I’ve done diddly.
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