My Own Thoughts

Category: Art

  • This is cool.

    It’s a word cloud of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, chapter one.

  • Chinese soldiers covered in egg.

    Those 7000 statues in the Terracotta army were apparently lacquered and then painted and then covered in egg. Or it might have been egg paint. Depends on which sentence I understood correctly. The most interesting part for me were the colors and how they got them: The researchers thought animal glue might have served as…

  • Beginning to read

    Making the Impossible Possible One thing it did is show me/reveal to me that R brought art back into my life and brought it into my life in a very personal way. He moved furniture around (composition) and insisted on painting our house (We did silver and white all over in our first house.) and…

  • No-Regrets Music: Leaving a legacy

    I spent the morning at an old friend’s grave Flowers and ‘Amazing Grace’, he was a good man He spent his whole life spinning his wheels Never knowing how the real thing feels He never took a chance or took the time to dance And I stood there thinking, as I said goodbye Today is…

  • Fun art

    Eggplant penguins, ice cream carrots, and cute little cauliflower sheep. Found via Happy Catholic who is way more computer savvy than I am and got the pics on her blog. Also, Coffee Art from Sigmund, Carl and Alfred. He has a Day Two as well.

  • Why would you put that in a theme for a blog?

    The painting “The Rape of Sabine” is the header for a theme. It’s kind of overlaid over another picture of a hill. See it here. Who the heck would put that particular painting at the top of their blog?

  • Art for Dielli

    All of the following are images I found while searching for “why study art.” 2500 BC Sumerian necklace, gold leaves and lapis lazuli Storage jar decorated with mountain goats, 3000s BC, Persia Silver bull holding silver drinking cup, Persia, 3100-2900 BC 8th Century BC, King and goat? Prancing Horse, 1350 BC, Egyptian This is a…

  • Stumbles: Pics, History, Random

    Pictures Rooms painted to be 3D, very weird. Vincent Van Gogh Gallery Bone Chandelier in Prague Watermelon carvings Some truly funky pictures Random World Beard and Moustache Championship returns to North Am. in 2009. Go look at some of those growths! 7 Quick Tips on how to make your wife happy How to write a…

  • “Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you.”

    Mona Lisa is so famous, there are at least two country western songs with her in it. The above is one line; the other is part of one of my favorite songs: “There’s only one Mona Lisa, one leaning tower of Pisa, one Paris, and there’s only one you.” There is a cool new art…

  • Homeschool Art

    Classical art that brings homeschooling to mind is what I was told this site would be. The only one that I think is reminiscent of homeschooling is this one. I like The Reading Lesson particularly because it appears that two of the children are boys. I homeschool boys. I dislike this picture intensely. Children’s Pastimes…

  • Colorful ancient art

    Technicolor Gods is the name of the exhibit of ancient works with reconstructions of color.

  • New Way to Identify Old Art

    A Madonna and Child painting, which is similar in style to a master’s, has been determined to have been from the Renaissance, by laser-based technology which identified the old glue and yellow pigments in the painting.

  • Adopting Art

    I love the idea. I like art. I’ve spent a lot of money collecting pieces that I like. (And some not so much money doing the same.) So I saw Mirabilis’ post on art adoption and went to read the original CSMonitor story. It sounds incredible. Artists put their work on-line for adoption. All you…

  • Art and New Chips

    Cobalt green, an unpopular color in artist’s palettes, is being studied to see if it can help make faster chips. It’s useful because it doesn’t need to be suspended at room temperature. The BBC has more information, some of it too technical for my interest level.

  • Art and Pollution

    Could Monet’s paintings of London tell us about the pollution levels at the time (1899-1901)? University of Birmingham (England) researches seem to think so.

  • New Glass

    This weekend I went to an antique shop in Lubbock, Grand Central Station Antiques on Ave Q. I found a lot of cool things, but I bought three Depression Era glass pieces, all elegant glass. (Depression glass= the free stuff they gave away with purchases. Elegant glass= the stuff you had to buy.) I got…

  • Books I’ve Read

    Voodoo Science by Robert L. Park. Park is a physicist and writes about things that were happening when I was younger and less aware. Cold Fusion. Ever wonder about it? Read it here. Also, leukemia caused by electromagnetic currents in houses (and microwaves). This came up in a house buying incident of a friend. Turns…

  • Houston Glass Show

    I found out about this show only by chance two weeks before it came to town. (Next to the last weekend in August.) If I had known beforehand, I might have been able to save up some money. As it was I spent about $200 there and my mother spent $500 of my 43rd birthday…

  • Sadness

    The only Picasso I have ever liked was for sale at Costco Fine Art. “La Folie.” Now it is gone. And I did not buy it. Someone did, though. I know they will enjoy it.

  • Do you know more than you thought? Design

    Ever owned or seen one of those black leathery-vinyl chairs with the silver hoops that loops and is very hard to get out of, especially when you are pregnant? Those are the work of Alvar Aalto in 1936. Of course, it was the depression, so you wanted light and airy (read easy to assemble without…