Did a hard core galleries tour this week. Renoir museum, Orsay, Pompidou, Quai Branly, Orangerie, Jeu de Paume. Sadly a couple of places I really wanted to visit where closed - but It would have been hard to press anything more in.
Yeah, I'm with you there. Pompidou in particular.
You like the Pomp? never liked it, doesn't work with the Haussmann surroundings. I knew the structural engineer Peter Rice very well however. The Sydney Opera House and the Lloyds building were other buildings he worked on.
I do, a lot. It's an interesting juxtaposition, and I think it conveys it's modern art focus well. I also like what's his face's mobiles out front, totally spacing on his name at the mo.
It´s surely a building like no other. Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Arup put down this thing in the middle of Paris - what an uproar there must have been! I liked everything about it, turning the structural and MEP systems inside out, and noted that the square outside, is a hangout for youngsters hanging out, playing music, reading etc. And thus giving energy back to the building.
Yes I knew him well, never worked with him but are paths would cross quite frequently. He was a lovely man and very talented.
I like the Walker. There's a couple of Stubbs in there. Some of the portraits are fantastic, the silk dresses of the sitters look 3 dimensional.
Love the painting, find the building inconguent. Last time I was there I was pestered by all the 'artists' sat around the square wanting to paint me (for a fee not as a muse), bloody worse than Montmartre.....al tell ya!
There's a few masterpieces/iconic paintings in there, Yeames ''When Was The Last You Saw Your Father'' being one of them. My missus couldn't get over that all the galleries and museums were free. It was well attended too, the regeneration of Liverpool is wonderful to behold from someone who knew it intimately in the dark days of the mid/late 80s and early 90s.
So nice to come across friendly and talented people in your work life.
Liverpool has some wonderful architecture, and not just the usual suspects like St Georges Hall, but gems like Oriel Chambers.
You are a collector naive art?
Naive or native? These paintings are from women artists who left Iran to paint here due to their not so subtle feminist messages.
I mean naive, they look like naive art to me.
help me out here because i'm not someone who stray onto this side of the street very often - are you saying fwiffo is naive and the art is no good, or are you classifying the piece of art as "naive", which is some sort of category of art works?
It's a broad school of art encompassing any artist who didn't take a rigorous degree in art, or lacks a formal education in artist techniques. Eric Tucker who I posted above is a naive artist. There's also outsider art which is similar but includes naive and self-taught artists who have no relationship with mainstream art galleries, dealers, etc.
thanks for the explanation.
to be a japanese business man?
How I have pined to be a grey mouse.
