In French the word Galleria also means shopping centre (mall). I think the play between gallery and galleria …is appropriate because a visit to the Louvre is like a visit to a large, crowded shopping mall. Many of the people going there are tourists intent
These two statues are on sale in one of the many commercial galleries in Paris, in this instance on the Rue de Rivoli, opposite the Louvre.
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Thought I’d share these. Happy accidents. I didn’t come to take photographs, just snapshots. I have a simple digital camera that has some limitations. I did briefly contemplate buying something more sophisticated but I didn’t want to slip into ‘photographer’ mode and spend my time…
It’s wet, it’s cold, it doesn’t matter. Not when you get to visit the Musée d’Orsay. Turn a corner and there’s one of your favourites in glorious detail and exquisite colour. Too many to list.
But the one I do want to discuss is L’Origine …
So, made it to Paris. It’s 2 am. I’d like to say I’ve been out, but I just got up. I arrived very early Monday morning after an all nighter from Singapore. It was too early to access my room, so I changed for the…
This is a frivolous post – with a point. Throughout this blog I’ve talked about the contrast between the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian attitude to nudity in art. The Greco-Romans celebrated the naked human form whereas the Judeo-Christians, via the Garden of Eden myth, considered the…
There are several points in David Cronenberg’s film A Dangerous Method where Jung reminds both Spielrein and Freud that he doesn’t believe in accidents. Indeed, the Jungian world is one of a complex hermeneutics in which everything …has meaning, especially when the process of individuation
This has hit the media today. I’m appalled. Not at the video, but at the complete over reaction from some sections of the media. Initially I wasn’t interested. It seemed to be just another silly teenage video posted on Youtube. And it is exactly that.…
Armand Point is a French symbolist. The Bathers …is from 1892. It seems to be of two sisters, the younger one obviously pubescent. You may have noticed by now that the theme of women bathing is quite common. Of course there are many more of
I should have posted this earlier, especially when I was talking about the theme of loss of virginity. Alas, my notes are haphazard and I missed Henri-Pierre Picou…. The first is a rather blatant allegory about the loss of sexual innocence. Note the red
Bliss is a young hippie girl with an extraordinary, untamed mind: a guitar prodigy, a synesthete, but can she tame her wild talent?
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