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Rembrandt Portrait With (By) Elephant
February 6, 2011You Can Fit A Lot Under A Hat Like That (Rembrandt With Elephant)
February 6, 2011
Rembrandt Van Rasta?
Madonna, Child, Elephant, Skylight. (You can find them anywhere?)
February 4, 2011
Italy–elephants. Some think of Hannibal; others of productions of Aida at the Roman Coliseum; others of Berlusconi staying endlessly in office. And then, there are those minds that conjure up the Madonna and Child.
I am embarrassed to say that, in my ManicDDaily way, I did not jot down the name of this artist, and cannot find the image among the hundreds of Madonna and Childs in the online catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum. All I can say is that it’s located in one of the galleries with a skylight.
I guess I’ll just have to go back.
Have a wonderful weekend, and if you like fine art (as in wonderful drawings), don’t forget to check out “Going on Somewhere” with illustrations by Diana Barco, cover by Jason Martin, poetry by Karin Gustafson, on Amazon. (Buy one!) And if you like elephants, check out 1 Mississippi by Karin Gustafson, also on Amazon. (Buy another!) (P.S. If price is an issue, let me know–I know someone who can get them for you wholesale.)
Fine Art With Elephants
February 3, 2011
The sun is so bright through my window this morning as to block out almost everything shadowed and worrisome in my and the world. Which leads me to Fine Art. With Elephants.
Check out, if you haven’t seen them, the last few posts. A trip to the Metropolitan Museum has led, so far, to:
Cezanne with Elephant
Courbet with Elephant (and little white dog i,e, Pearl)!
I’m concerned that this is only the beginning. Have brush (or Brushes app), will elephant.
(For original fine art, check out the wonderful illustrations of Diana Barco in my new book of poetry “Going on Somewhere”, by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, and Jason Martin on Amazon. And buy it for someone for Valentine’s Day! It has lots of love poems and is cheaper, even, than reasonable chocolate.)
PS – I’m not quite sure why the links are different colors. (Agh.)
Peek-a-(boo)-so! (You Can Find Them Anywhere.)
February 2, 2011
"At the Lapin Agile" With Elephant By You know Who
The title of this post is a joke; it really is–i.e. it’s been a long week and it’s only Wednesday.
You Can Find Them Anywhere (Even in the South of France?)
January 31, 2011
Elephant courtesy of ManicDDaily, iPhone and New York City Subway system; genius courtesy of Paul Cezanne (on exhibit at the Met).
Trained To Complain?
January 20, 2011
Trying to Pack It All In
It’s been one of these days and weeks in which there are not enough hours. The odd thing is that a long list of tasks, and a short amount of time, typically does not make me efficient. Instead, these circumstances inspire me to to (somehow, magically) find a huge amount of extra time which I spend complaining, resisting both reality and my own prior choices, and avoiding and bemoaning same.
I am on a train right now (where I was able to do above drawing with great iPhone brushes app), thinking of how I managed to squeeeze it all in.
Along the Hudson with iPhone
December 28, 2010On a train by the Hudson today with ice and iPhone. And now without wireless in mountains. Who knows what will come out?
At Cross(Word) Purposes (With Elephant)
December 5, 2010
Crossword In Bed (With Elephant)
When discipline has worn down, the brain is charred, but you are a purposeful sort who hasn’t quite succumbed to late night (or all night) television, thank heavens for the New York Times crossword puzzle. I’m not talking about the Sunday puzzle, which is somehow too long, quirky and shiny (the paper stock not plain newsprint) to be truly satisfying.
I’m talking about the mundane, smudged, predictably cycled offering of the daily paper–the Monday refreshingly easy, Tuesday harder but still pleasingly finishable, Wednesday involving some gimmick or joke (the kind one hates/loves to chuckle over), Thursday just possibly doable without cheating (except for this past Thursday grrrr….), the Friday a puzzle you can sometimes manage with only a few hits of the Internet, and the Saturday (forget about it.)
Dear Will Shortz, thank you for many a pleasant hour spent without, and especially, with company. (The crossword is a great paired activity as long as the other person will let you hold the pencil every once in a while, and, eventually, stop erasing and re-writing your E’s.)
Thank you for this activity of wonderfully-seeming purposefulness. (How good it is for our brains!)
Thank you for this terrific way of forgetting the present moment while trying to remember everything else one has ever ever learned.
BTW, who was that shipyard worker fired in 1976?
Rain Stops! (Friday With Elephants)
August 27, 2010
Rain Stops (On the Esplanade)!
Rain stops! Friday comes! Hope eternal! (With elephants!)
Have a great weekend, and, if you like elephants, check out 1 Mississippi by Karin Gustafson on Amazon.
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