The Magic of the Cities.
Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer
Friday, August 20, 2010
Helix
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Silence Valley
Silence Valley (near Mexico City) |
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought;
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Farewell Paris
Snack |
Wrong lens |
Gallery |
Art Class (about Les Noces de Cana by Véronèse - 1562-1563) |
Inner patio |
Cinq Maitres de la Renaissance Florentine. 1450. By Paolo Uccello (L to R: Giotto, P. Uccelllo, Donatello, Manetti & Filipo Brunelleschi) |
Leonardo da Vinci. Portrait da Femme, La Belle Ferronniere (1495-99) |
Stoned Lady Thank you Paris and Parisians for your endless Culture, Art, Beauty and Joie de Vivre (Joy of Living). I leave a part of my heart here and forever. |
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Dreamers
Musée du Louvre |
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Bacchus Roman, Imperial. 2nd Century AD |
Portrait d'Antinoüs en Osiris 130 ap. .J.-C. |
Potrait of man from the time of Emperor Claude 40-44 ap. J.-C. |
Labels:
Musée du Louvre,
Paris Scenes,
Roman empire,
sculptures
Mexico City
France
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Hermes
Hermès tying his sandal. Roman II Century BC |
The image of Hermes tying his sandal while listening to the orders of his father, Zeus, is characteristic of Lysippus's artistic endeavors. It should be remembered, however, that the head, which comes from another copy of the same work, is too small here, and that the incongruous supporting tree trunk under the thigh was added by the Roman copyist when he transposed the bronze original into marble.
Lysippus reworked Polyclitus's canon by lengthening it. The proportions are freer, the head now an eighth of the total height of the body and the muscle structure more slender - except, of course, in the statue of Heracles to your right. The artist sought in addition to situate the figure in a space that was also that of the observer, with a play of light and shade.
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