yesterday i didn't want to clean the house. i ended up doing it later, fueled by anger and a bad mood, but that's another story.
so i went to the Tulane library to look at art books. i can't check any out, because i'm no longer a student, which is a damned shame. but as of yet they've never kicked me out for just looking, and they have these nice, big tables good for spreading out all your stuff. and the air conditioner is nice and cold.
outside of the library. that's Replacement Bike on the rack, by the way.
spent most of my time there looking at these Late Gothic prints, copper plate and wood engravings. most of them have religious or moralizing subject matter, but there's an odd few that don't- like some images from playing cards and animals and battle scenes. some of them are strikingly modern- i'm thinking in particular of the style of some of the interior spaces and folded robes and such. there were a few that looked like they very well could have been carved in the twentieth century- there was an "annunciation" that looked almost Cubist in style, and some Passion scenes that could have been Expressionist woodcuts. some of the prints are just bizarre to the modern eye, almost surreal. here's one of the "Man of Sorrows" icon that i loved:
"Man of Sorrows" by the "Master of the Playing Cards". floating heads include Herod and Pilate, and some other guy, a guy spitting, a guy sticking out his tongue; the hands are slapping, pulling hair, and holding out 30 pieces of silver; the instruments of the Passion are displayed on the ground.
i won't bore you any longer with medieval art. but the book i was looking at was "Late Gothic Engravings of Germany and the Netherlands". it was published in 1969 and includes 682 copper plates from the Kritischer Katalog. i found a used copy on Amazon for $12... i think i'm definitely going to try and snag that. financial destitution be damned! i need that book!
anyway, got to go get ready for this employee party at some lady's house that i was invited to at work. i figure i should go and network and make sure i know who i'm working with and they know me. that kind of stuff. uhg. wish me luck on that one.
love.
-Hyena.
so i went to the Tulane library to look at art books. i can't check any out, because i'm no longer a student, which is a damned shame. but as of yet they've never kicked me out for just looking, and they have these nice, big tables good for spreading out all your stuff. and the air conditioner is nice and cold.
outside of the library. that's Replacement Bike on the rack, by the way.
spent most of my time there looking at these Late Gothic prints, copper plate and wood engravings. most of them have religious or moralizing subject matter, but there's an odd few that don't- like some images from playing cards and animals and battle scenes. some of them are strikingly modern- i'm thinking in particular of the style of some of the interior spaces and folded robes and such. there were a few that looked like they very well could have been carved in the twentieth century- there was an "annunciation" that looked almost Cubist in style, and some Passion scenes that could have been Expressionist woodcuts. some of the prints are just bizarre to the modern eye, almost surreal. here's one of the "Man of Sorrows" icon that i loved:
"Man of Sorrows" by the "Master of the Playing Cards". floating heads include Herod and Pilate, and some other guy, a guy spitting, a guy sticking out his tongue; the hands are slapping, pulling hair, and holding out 30 pieces of silver; the instruments of the Passion are displayed on the ground.
i won't bore you any longer with medieval art. but the book i was looking at was "Late Gothic Engravings of Germany and the Netherlands". it was published in 1969 and includes 682 copper plates from the Kritischer Katalog. i found a used copy on Amazon for $12... i think i'm definitely going to try and snag that. financial destitution be damned! i need that book!
anyway, got to go get ready for this employee party at some lady's house that i was invited to at work. i figure i should go and network and make sure i know who i'm working with and they know me. that kind of stuff. uhg. wish me luck on that one.
love.
-Hyena.
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ugh i ag ree. i never go anywhere without my MP3 player, well its always been that way i never go anywhere without music. becaus esometimes i can not STAND to hear people talking.