tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71770833090233630972024-02-18T19:02:45.322-08:00Gabrielle Jones PassionArtTrips, Tips, Trials, Tribulations, Triumphs, Talks with, and Tributes to artists by Sydney Based, Professional Contemporary Abstract Landscape painter. www.gabriellejones.com.auGabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.comBlogger263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-49496204745663868142013-12-01T19:28:00.004-08:002013-12-01T19:28:54.279-08:00We're moving! This blog is now attached to myWebsiteHi. I missed you!<br />
If you'd like to read more of my blog, you'll need to go <a href="http://gabriellejones.com.au/">here</a>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-32826502131150342262012-02-21T14:54:00.003-08:002012-02-21T15:03:37.222-08:00Renoir video<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8UXSfktHK3V5A-hxGHyYA3qT8Uk38AB93YVoKLXoNcJadMi2NIpAHdGVAXq9G4LhoFXWCK9jQ76nYM5thQsDdyDzH9LbSC7kw3hixPJWV1y7JprNt8yj5Cy6OoENFOOzxkOh4qFDL_mU/s1600/renoir.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8UXSfktHK3V5A-hxGHyYA3qT8Uk38AB93YVoKLXoNcJadMi2NIpAHdGVAXq9G4LhoFXWCK9jQ76nYM5thQsDdyDzH9LbSC7kw3hixPJWV1y7JprNt8yj5Cy6OoENFOOzxkOh4qFDL_mU/s320/renoir.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711727185841789282" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Sorry I been away a lot....beginning of the year- back to teaching, doing workshops, trying to get paintings up to standard, hoping for sales and gallery representation...<br />Anyway, I have just posted a wonderful vintage video of Renoir painting in his studio, aided by some fairly "toady" looking assistants (one even takes his cigarette and puts it in the ashtray for him - now that's above and beyond the call of duty!). Anyway - look to the left of this post and enjoy!)</span>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-48226986276623974162012-01-01T02:11:00.001-08:002012-01-01T02:19:25.981-08:00Happy New Year 2012!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9f3tXGEXkVrLPbiFJX0xCnsTmK4EkrDQ3D5ndBqJ7TUwAAtRCOXTLxgK9tvQSTGUUvbFW6IWCrsdfXMO_ybBUca5y-Bx3nnB3R0KusiJgRA7WVBzZrl8xI8lRcTx5-WREonsHrmhMPg/s1600/IMG_1266.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9f3tXGEXkVrLPbiFJX0xCnsTmK4EkrDQ3D5ndBqJ7TUwAAtRCOXTLxgK9tvQSTGUUvbFW6IWCrsdfXMO_ybBUca5y-Bx3nnB3R0KusiJgRA7WVBzZrl8xI8lRcTx5-WREonsHrmhMPg/s320/IMG_1266.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692606000289912866" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjLaeP7jiJYDMaHdf3RfUqKLslUuLBBDXP89HP1LVGzM5OXPT7-M1tBWGZbp0k4jM3EFqzzNsdeq1s9hZogtQDOPTsNt5cLKH_gEVZ_fNXwTHjR7QLcFOXtnSSGhRus7eR8yZBPJvpTA/s1600/IMG_1230.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68CJ9bUrFuj079sZ4QVCdMOUQHXYS0EA4VnGRYmvRDY3YmT3sxltS_looXxDRXESRwv0b-nnXwTiBSxsghmA6QDaqyQoFXV9Qpl6q5YzWQiVVg6G9GOBOz_Cgq1O3hwnmOWmRyapct9k/s320/IMG_1201+18-24-17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692605156151846034" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Thought I'd post a few pics of the fireworks on the Sydney Harbour bridge at last night's new years eve celebrations. A rainbow was one of the symbols decorating the bridge during the display - lets hope it's a portent of the pot of gold you all truly deserve this year. happy New year and thanks for reading!</span>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-48381189916354373372011-12-29T15:56:00.000-08:002011-12-29T15:58:22.253-08:00Gerhard Richter Videos<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Just added some videos (see list at left) on Gerhard Richter - painting and drawing. Enjoy!</span></span>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-90141571303465872892011-12-13T13:52:00.000-08:002011-12-13T17:05:09.786-08:00Landscape Drawing and painting Weekend - Blackheath<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIcyG-g3PQJMaGU3pMC6srMGemI-NcddFjE4IT08-TyNfcirzfQjqcmvz5Hs3Bcwi__z9c8P1mpmU0zIyTH1V2I9Q3D7LGE4NS5F9vXzp8fr-z8mjwUn5dmW7mP_Cy5tDAebEEoClBITA/s1600/IMG_0855.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIcyG-g3PQJMaGU3pMC6srMGemI-NcddFjE4IT08-TyNfcirzfQjqcmvz5Hs3Bcwi__z9c8P1mpmU0zIyTH1V2I9Q3D7LGE4NS5F9vXzp8fr-z8mjwUn5dmW7mP_Cy5tDAebEEoClBITA/s320/IMG_0855.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685783380968137154" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1PGi95X6Ad_e7poDM6YRqO7kIlGbkobjbVAfy8d0nOCEOOXWqJtXsdtqSusR2BdPnuE9fKaqaEyElcC0pwX02KdB2kYZ94DsEVUgoVIA1X5PSfuoG1QwG2BFm0OWd9kpTsLi6GhYuSY/s1600/IMG_0866.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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It'll be a weekend of painting, drawing, site seeing and art talk in and around my new home of Blackheath and the World Heritage Blue Mountains Area. Numbers are strictly limited to ten participants - non-participant partners are welcome.Gift Certificates available - Apply now! See http://www.gabriellejones.com.au/pages/workshops.html for more details</span></span>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-6353045794545688872011-10-15T18:39:00.000-07:002011-10-15T18:39:00.226-07:00New work from the Studio Number Four<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is the first really faithful painting I have made from my drawings. I enjoyed playing with all the edges. I found that there was a first pass through in which position and technical stuff had to be sorted - and it was- but the painting was "dead" in my eyes. So eventually I had to leave all that behind and really just get in and paint, lose the thing, and then bring it back. Much like any other painting, and my abstract work in particular!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Funnily enough, I started this with spray enamel and a roughness, but ended up with a smoother, ethereal and sensitive look, as dictated by the subject matter.</span></div>
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Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-6083854487753177342011-10-08T18:32:00.000-07:002011-10-08T18:32:00.255-07:00New Studio Work Part 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Gabrielle Jones, Evening (Lumen Series), Charcoal, pastel and shellac on paper, 70 x 100cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Number three in the larger "lumen" series in which I explore landscape and the effect of light at different times of the day. I think that working in this series has made me understand what I am trying to produce in my paintings - a sensitivity (not always achieved!); a nod to the beauty of nature; a sense of "air" or ethereality; a discovery of surface pattern and the effects of light on this.</span></div>
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Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-61408274978527202602011-10-07T16:06:00.000-07:002011-10-07T18:33:46.937-07:00Vale Steve Jobs - a parallel to art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;font-family:";"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_H0JumJKJTMPaMd20zQzuoXXMT39RdTAae_4dQ8KQ_7otrfkfyE10_3Ttu6IOFVOytWzp-b5Nx3-CGIzxNrNmqSsV89d9ZVs4O7cYvzrXApZ9i2-hEclH6mxJAGhyszLczFLZbinB9d0/s1600/r-STEVE-JOBS-REMEMBERED-large570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_H0JumJKJTMPaMd20zQzuoXXMT39RdTAae_4dQ8KQ_7otrfkfyE10_3Ttu6IOFVOytWzp-b5Nx3-CGIzxNrNmqSsV89d9ZVs4O7cYvzrXApZ9i2-hEclH6mxJAGhyszLczFLZbinB9d0/s320/r-STEVE-JOBS-REMEMBERED-large570.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;font-family:";"><br /></div><div style="Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;font-family:";"><br /></div><div style="Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;font-family:";"><span style="font-size:x-small;">I don't want to get on the band wagon regarding the death of this visionary man whose inventions literally changed my life (along with squillions of others. -I have been a Mac user since the early to mid 80's when they first came to Australia, as a member of the design industry). But I came across this quote in an article by Bianca Bosker in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-tech-pioneer_n_999321.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=100711&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief">Huffington Post</a>, interviewing Jay Elliot who was a friend and worked with the young Steve Jobs.</span></div><div style="Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;font-family:";"><span style="font-size:x-small;">"Steve challenged every part of me. I loved being challenged and I loved being exposed to that level of quality and accomplishment. It was a gift to be working with someone who had those smarts and vision. I was excited to go to work every day. Steve forces you to figure out who you are and who you are going to be."</span></div><div face=""" style="Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">I always wanted to work with a boss like him. I guess, in the end, that's why I chose "Art" (substitute for "Steve")</span></div></div>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-46753418048841275012011-10-01T18:26:00.000-07:002011-10-01T18:26:00.675-07:00New Studio work Number Two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-4325921856953521772011-09-23T18:20:00.000-07:002011-09-23T18:20:00.500-07:00New work from the studio -Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I've decided to add new work as it is made and - hopefully - finished. I know a good editing process is all important for an artist, but I have been living with these for a few weeks now and they have survived the bin, the overdraw, and the touch up! I think they're cooked!</span></div>
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Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-79896165364056368782011-09-21T18:51:00.000-07:002011-09-20T18:10:37.950-07:00Gallery discovery of the week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-76514137351229030282011-09-18T15:21:00.001-07:002011-09-18T15:39:20.030-07:00Try Try Again! How do judges decide?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">But as these things often happen, I received a newsletter (Blackheath Art Society Aug-Oct 2011) in the mail in which Anthony Bond, Director of Curatorial Services at the Art Gallery of NEw South Wales, was interviewed by Christine Townend regarding his choices in Art Prizes (among other things). He states that for him, "it is important to consider the context". In other words, if judging in an area where the "prevailing themes are landscape or configuration, you need to take that into account (and) encourage the best possible practice in that area, rather than automatically giving the prize to the most adventurous.....What interests me is the degree of honesty and observation that an artist brings to the work."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Well, I don't consider mine flashy or technical, but then again, Tony Bond wasn't the judge. Perhaps he ought to have been!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Gabrielle Jones, "Tree Movement (Blackheath)" 122 x 122cm Oil on Canvas. Perhaps should have entered this one?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">So...what do you think makes a worthy prize winner? What considerations would you take into account if you were the judge? How do you pick up and go on after "Art Prize Failure"?</span></div>
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Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-88372094767441848552011-09-01T02:15:00.000-07:002011-09-01T02:37:00.001-07:00I was Interviewed by Method Press Magazine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I just saw the digital version of Method Press Magazine Issue 2 ("Creative Space/Gabrielle Jones" page 25). There's a few double-page spreads of an interview with me and photos taken in my studio whilst painting. See it at:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">h</span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_592104266"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ttp://issuu.com/methodpress/d</span></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_592104266"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><wbr></wbr></span></span></a><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_592104266"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ocs/method_press_summer2011_is</span></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_592104266"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><wbr></wbr></span></span></a><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><a href="http://issuu.com/methodpress/docs/method_press_summer2011_issue2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">sue2</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. One page doesn't load, but you get the idea. Pretty happy!</span></span></span></div>
Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-47857532701108061412011-08-31T16:24:00.000-07:002011-09-20T18:05:14.851-07:00Creativity and Abstraction workshop, Sydney<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Gabrielle Jones, "Hillside, Whitegums" Oil on Canvas, 101 x 101cm 2011</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I am conducting a Creativity and Abstraction Workshop on September 24th at Sydney's Balmain (easy, free parking) from 10am to 4pm. Using observation of real objects, I'll walk you through a number of exercises, thinking methods, tools and imagination games to develop your ability to make interesting abstract work, move your realistic paintings away from the predictable, or improve composition and subject ideas. Tuition is structured to ensure fast learning and early success and stimulate creativity and generate ideas for on-going work. Suitable for those wishing to break out of their current painting rut, move from realism to abstraction, or who simply wish to explore abstraction and their creativity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I held one a few weeks ago and the participants left with heaps of ideas for their work and the confidence to execute it when alone in their studios.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The cost will be $125 for the day. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Further details (materials list, payment details etc) will sent upon inquiry. Contact me if interested:http://www.gabriellejones.com.au/pages/contact.html</span></span></div>
Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-55816066377434838782011-08-24T18:49:00.000-07:002011-08-24T18:51:10.230-07:00Artist's Statement reviewed<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Just uploaded one of the funniest spoofs on an artist's statement I have seen (see videos left). Enjoy!</span></span><div>
<br /></div>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-1389174284699656142011-08-17T04:02:00.000-07:002011-08-17T04:12:16.345-07:00Discovery of the week - Rafael Karcz<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_YqQWlf3TUXcXmvOJJXUuoOVDVt8i3NO4X7937-R_4yIn9_I1Zaqe1RUivccSnkN_E5pDRjUtt7FLP-DBqjYGoOfvwXG6rn4xcnz_tR79RAWQcAhzkVPa-58CU1N_xFcZh6HFgIA6E3k/s1600/strefaa_de6cd36355e6143ffbe6ab5e7f1fbaa1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_YqQWlf3TUXcXmvOJJXUuoOVDVt8i3NO4X7937-R_4yIn9_I1Zaqe1RUivccSnkN_E5pDRjUtt7FLP-DBqjYGoOfvwXG6rn4xcnz_tR79RAWQcAhzkVPa-58CU1N_xFcZh6HFgIA6E3k/s320/strefaa_de6cd36355e6143ffbe6ab5e7f1fbaa1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641779273180620578" /></a>
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<br /><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 30.0px; font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Albert Wang, art curator, IAO PROJECTS, Salt Lake City, USA states that rafael, a Polish artist, "focuses both the artist's and viewers' attention on various iterations of human faces, one of the traditional genres of art history. Frequently de-populated and executed with the artist's characteristic somber palette of rather monochromatic colors, Karcz's faces create an evocative atmosphere that is simultaneously disquieting, banal, and even, on occasions, gloomy or sinister. His fleeting glimpses of these motives are often ambiguous - both artist and viewer participate in the viewing of the scene and yet are somehow also clearly excluded from belonging in them..."</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 30.0px; font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I just moved to Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains 1.5 hours North West of Sydney. Took the time out from teaching, moving, commuting and painting to take a walk in the memorial park, where I discovered a wonderful avenue of Rhododendrons. It soothed my soul and gave me energy for the rest of the day (another commute and a new class to teach). Here's the photos from my iPhone. Not bad for a winter's day, hey?</span></span></div>
Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-60201595680818403582011-08-03T18:02:00.001-07:002011-08-03T18:12:09.524-07:00Artist discovery of the...well, a long time. 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Romanian artist, Adrian Ghenie must be one of the Ghenie-uses of our time! Man, can this guy paint!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">His works all speak of his wonderful touch, although their subjects change, and they are all imbued with a dark strangeness and almost erotic sense of story and paint. What is going on? and while you're musing on this.. How does he do it? At times lush and flowing with paint and shoulder movement, at others spare and elemental - and often, all in the one painting. A wonderful treat for the eyes.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Modern edition.com says "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 25px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Richly and often hermetically allusive, Ghenie's work attempts to investigate memory and the unconscious against a backdrop of 20th-century European history.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 25px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Frequently attaining a cinematic, film noir-esque quality, Ghenie's highly structured, dramatically lit tableaux justifiably make him one of the major art stars of the moment".</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; orphans: 0; widows: 0; line-height: 1.85em; letter-spacing: 0.07em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Enjoy!</span></span></p><div><br /></div></span>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-56106477869471589402011-07-24T02:54:00.000-07:002011-09-20T18:07:24.943-07:00New art Classes Thursday Evening, Friday daytime<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I've started the Friday day classes at St John's Church, Balmain (corner Spring St and Birchgrove Roads). The parking is really easy, the space is large and light-filled, there are wall heaters, a new kitchen and toilets, lots of tables and chairs, and great students! The class has been going well, and the feedback from students is that it's a wonderful space. I can now easily accommodate some more students. Time is 10-2:30pm . Come join us! Cost is $75/class for 6 class bookings.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you are interested, see www.gabriellejones.com.au and follow the workshops link for more information, or you can comment on this blog or email me through the contacts page on the website, and I'll get back to you ASAP.</span></span></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gabrielle is able to clearly understand the</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">preferences and strengths of every pupil. She</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is therefore able to help them maximise their</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">potential through individual attention within her</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">friendly and supportive group classes. She gives</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">both practical instruction in colour appreciation,</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">composition, etc… and thoughtful ideas to</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">stimulate creativity. She also provides honest</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and constructive feedback to her pupils. Above</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">all, Gabrielle exhibits a passion and enthusiasm</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">for her subject that is transmitted to everybody</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thank you Gabrielle for all your fabulous</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">your generous guidance. Gabrielle’s workshops</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">are always full of both inspiration and knowledge</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">your own work.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Galia, Ryde</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have been to a number of Gabrielle’s private art</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">classes and I hope to go to many more. I originally</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">came to learn about painting with acrylics but</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have learnt so much more. Gabrielle has an</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">immense amount of knowledge about art in</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">her head and can hardly wait to impart as much</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of it as possible to you (in a good way!). I have</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">just learnt so much, ranging from landscape to</span></span></i></b></div>
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Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-37106190954360715432011-06-26T00:41:00.000-07:002011-06-26T02:10:50.164-07:00Handing in my homework incredibly late!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguzOfX2UWIzc9giiT1ozge_JgX5nHqIxGymusebO8PaCJOHiR1YCJJylRR1wo-llJurIH3srWtTsPuMr4oOd4IDGhDQ6LeH7BuXjfuBdt4w9Io23IeGd68WeLSjc54iEkV4-2a3hv1enE/s1600/IMG_8281.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguzOfX2UWIzc9giiT1ozge_JgX5nHqIxGymusebO8PaCJOHiR1YCJJylRR1wo-llJurIH3srWtTsPuMr4oOd4IDGhDQ6LeH7BuXjfuBdt4w9Io23IeGd68WeLSjc54iEkV4-2a3hv1enE/s320/IMG_8281.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450652425361794" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Last Night In Fronteira de la Vejer - the walled city</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOr-Kui_Xq-VhvCyHC2kLQKESYsxaw6pZbp6sCf5CQUBzaMqE1yESq98EuVBDuBMXM05Lq8rsRd5YgXDx-UXBwfvBSV9BXkHwV4dBIuRPsMORSlVefQEqWfMf334hUxhjhddUy_vvxsKU/s1600/IMG_8239.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOr-Kui_Xq-VhvCyHC2kLQKESYsxaw6pZbp6sCf5CQUBzaMqE1yESq98EuVBDuBMXM05Lq8rsRd5YgXDx-UXBwfvBSV9BXkHwV4dBIuRPsMORSlVefQEqWfMf334hUxhjhddUy_vvxsKU/s320/IMG_8239.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450651059946850" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clouds at Sunset - Ronda</span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJDzd7KYJPg1-v6-qem1vYjrXpYPGztGAZRS8cEhUOibN7hLXgihAa4dcUEX_gAyZP8YGLju1FmlSfMKdhUx2sH7d0l0kiNaP5jK8XyUL5hE_r5NYXgWIMeKMAc9l4_e5M7nPDU4CSlg/s1600/IMG_8229.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJDzd7KYJPg1-v6-qem1vYjrXpYPGztGAZRS8cEhUOibN7hLXgihAa4dcUEX_gAyZP8YGLju1FmlSfMKdhUx2sH7d0l0kiNaP5jK8XyUL5hE_r5NYXgWIMeKMAc9l4_e5M7nPDU4CSlg/s320/IMG_8229.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450650358009010" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Precarously poised bridge at Ronda</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMesKlrEPIgl2EVty93O7275E283JSP4kuXMsY3vkYEBqzV_gWrxLZyFuqsdc6zCudQ3uJ_QdSxE6_-H21hC2rgTDWsIIAbYJBtNUr2hQRVz8n9e4ROISzlCgyMjjjZmO-aMC_wkpaxtI/s1600/IMG_8215.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMesKlrEPIgl2EVty93O7275E283JSP4kuXMsY3vkYEBqzV_gWrxLZyFuqsdc6zCudQ3uJ_QdSxE6_-H21hC2rgTDWsIIAbYJBtNUr2hQRVz8n9e4ROISzlCgyMjjjZmO-aMC_wkpaxtI/s320/IMG_8215.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450644884749202" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Even here, student protests are growing. In Spain 41% of 18-30year olds are unemployed</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDy5VstC5iiq6WXhtG_bL-mRUUmQzYavogtZdf6x_KJS65NOrGvmGVTgP9yj_xa-WVOIctdgtE9ZzUUE94afUVbRXzHtYer0EYb0ZhizFKjfDRgiZ0p9uvstwiDtHm8FNEVkW-G3PU6H4/s1600/IMG_8184.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDy5VstC5iiq6WXhtG_bL-mRUUmQzYavogtZdf6x_KJS65NOrGvmGVTgP9yj_xa-WVOIctdgtE9ZzUUE94afUVbRXzHtYer0EYb0ZhizFKjfDRgiZ0p9uvstwiDtHm8FNEVkW-G3PU6H4/s320/IMG_8184.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450411098887586" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Buildings in Ronda - as viewed from Juan Bosco</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEfxPoBGmR8lY2bRi5uSave-4gtjAkYF0kSFGAeLOpJrXee0b9ENPnKGamBi_UyNReqedm40luAMevUuGXHdeZK-YT2faobtI0AYyJAYQ2aiX3zSyStfyLl5jVNnEtv9JYVYYGk4-GGQ/s1600/IMG_8148.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEfxPoBGmR8lY2bRi5uSave-4gtjAkYF0kSFGAeLOpJrXee0b9ENPnKGamBi_UyNReqedm40luAMevUuGXHdeZK-YT2faobtI0AYyJAYQ2aiX3zSyStfyLl5jVNnEtv9JYVYYGk4-GGQ/s320/IMG_8148.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450406920700850" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gratzelema - another of the white Pueblos</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUV1b94bpFJdgKdUqrWUMnHO1FTf4wYbWqRgHfyrelO4D37G8l4Vtdi7lcViLmW5wg4NNMa_QdIPrSQ6TSnZvgkU578i6LKR6d1wkL5GiqxDFWZbD0kzgoEOZriI7D1QDlCzy_IQesHI/s1600/IMG_8074.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUV1b94bpFJdgKdUqrWUMnHO1FTf4wYbWqRgHfyrelO4D37G8l4Vtdi7lcViLmW5wg4NNMa_QdIPrSQ6TSnZvgkU578i6LKR6d1wkL5GiqxDFWZbD0kzgoEOZriI7D1QDlCzy_IQesHI/s320/IMG_8074.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450400747275362" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">View from the Cathedral Piazza at Arcos</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimN29kpfn0_cBirgrjqbjMK-9jfwNOUhndwQmEbVFAcjfNX2MgSzSXRwuvIswwY585vNRAYPtUJQu6odLTO_2jOaYvjekjOqbnrOQMjKrBoDFvP4gslFDW3CizUp20pcVeTIv0_3dgWdk/s1600/IMG_8049.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimN29kpfn0_cBirgrjqbjMK-9jfwNOUhndwQmEbVFAcjfNX2MgSzSXRwuvIswwY585vNRAYPtUJQu6odLTO_2jOaYvjekjOqbnrOQMjKrBoDFvP4gslFDW3CizUp20pcVeTIv0_3dgWdk/s320/IMG_8049.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450395693932210" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The beach near Trafalgar Point</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Xmymn0JvRjVIkSeXHt1v7zOQp5-_-7m6R6FK-y0tOO0lEtXb92xN_YxuJeipWbdClTx2SKQvzKC30S_UENkN_GUdemigIxkC0W9f-uCsK5DcsynKKkkZwa0M12mBYYq6R-MY97rX_68/s1600/IMG_8039.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Xmymn0JvRjVIkSeXHt1v7zOQp5-_-7m6R6FK-y0tOO0lEtXb92xN_YxuJeipWbdClTx2SKQvzKC30S_UENkN_GUdemigIxkC0W9f-uCsK5DcsynKKkkZwa0M12mBYYq6R-MY97rX_68/s320/IMG_8039.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450393320770722" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sunrise from our bedroom at Vejer de la Frontiera </span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYcZFOj1QDcdzYHSTr19BWwcVqoi8o4Pak4MYe0z0zZX9KhiqFQPwO46AL-B2z9T_NIUxgHtYhXePjmme1e-ZhTmfkYgDyBJ_6IkAG0t1WYpU3s5vTSfkjLzms4tpRzMY89qbdiF9ZP0/s1600/IMG_8035.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYcZFOj1QDcdzYHSTr19BWwcVqoi8o4Pak4MYe0z0zZX9KhiqFQPwO46AL-B2z9T_NIUxgHtYhXePjmme1e-ZhTmfkYgDyBJ_6IkAG0t1WYpU3s5vTSfkjLzms4tpRzMY89qbdiF9ZP0/s320/IMG_8035.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450129808730546" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And looking out the window.....</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yOxs5mcEaPiv3FsP-umoZJPrUwYtOw95QXNcw0WCFlkBcUW7lDfOPY_61RdCPUktjG8WdWaSW8dlPdBKNBCsgzy-o1UwLzUaYQRkXe0INEuf2tz45L9mj5Zf7T5YM40vEi6Ky3DhHLs/s1600/IMG_8018.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yOxs5mcEaPiv3FsP-umoZJPrUwYtOw95QXNcw0WCFlkBcUW7lDfOPY_61RdCPUktjG8WdWaSW8dlPdBKNBCsgzy-o1UwLzUaYQRkXe0INEuf2tz45L9mj5Zf7T5YM40vEi6Ky3DhHLs/s320/IMG_8018.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450126034636082" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The town at night - Vejer de la Frontiera </span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSm16bQiNbdOBu7b2IkY94NHs_q_HjcHQnQXcIMWX9mESaI8y_AmJykjdS8WL_aaogYj_awYPcc-gQqhifSFL8tdzFhS65Patz1fN52QIcbXBbz34Vb0ofKh5zCvUfPVb8UVbb8hDPMz0/s1600/IMG_8010.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSm16bQiNbdOBu7b2IkY94NHs_q_HjcHQnQXcIMWX9mESaI8y_AmJykjdS8WL_aaogYj_awYPcc-gQqhifSFL8tdzFhS65Patz1fN52QIcbXBbz34Vb0ofKh5zCvUfPVb8UVbb8hDPMz0/s320/IMG_8010.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450125595064114" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Plaza de Espana, Vejer de la Frontiera </span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk1-OpzELTz6kxTl8JMUi7yDnvhDy5Muxy4AeuHaQKcfD1B5Jt81VWvffh5M7UPxJmLGEFrQgeoiEkyRwDO7dj7jelzm6UvbBQ_DoMHX7Nq7Jcc-gdY4Xb_JhLxOxER847rutsDb08_YY/s1600/IMG_7999.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk1-OpzELTz6kxTl8JMUi7yDnvhDy5Muxy4AeuHaQKcfD1B5Jt81VWvffh5M7UPxJmLGEFrQgeoiEkyRwDO7dj7jelzm6UvbBQ_DoMHX7Nq7Jcc-gdY4Xb_JhLxOxER847rutsDb08_YY/s320/IMG_7999.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450121080345106" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">From the rooftop - looking at the other side of Vejer de la Frontiera. It runs across two ridges of the mountain.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9s1lKCl0WgJ7aJLCzLxdVad-zr1tAZZDpur4kh1hjd6vR0L1P_pG9Bg4k8ML_J3LZGtgmI-fm6z8Gi5Ym4aSQ3bxuUCgHoxVI5h3gQaHSINzhJ4AHPjJZHf7G5lUB7n5tO7kWnf2LCM/s1600/IMG_7973.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9s1lKCl0WgJ7aJLCzLxdVad-zr1tAZZDpur4kh1hjd6vR0L1P_pG9Bg4k8ML_J3LZGtgmI-fm6z8Gi5Ym4aSQ3bxuUCgHoxVI5h3gQaHSINzhJ4AHPjJZHf7G5lUB7n5tO7kWnf2LCM/s320/IMG_7973.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622450121865728882" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OOPs! There was a perfectly reasonable explanation....</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />I've been back from my trip for almost three weeks - I've moved into a unit, started back teaching, found a house in the mountains to move to permanently, ramped up marketing for Bali Art Retreats and my private art classes, started said art classes in a new hall, am hanging a new exhibition on Tuesday....and not finished my blog about my trip. So here goes for the next leg (apologies for the delay).</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We left Seville to drive to the far south coast of Spain and took a route via Puerta Santa Maria, a small coastal town. We stopped for lunch (very ordinary) after hiring a car which turned out to be upgraded to a brand new Volvo. First time on the "wrong" side of the road, with a big car and reduced visibility of where the car's extremities started and stopped, resulting in a five hour wait after lunch for the tow truck to remove us from the low "balls" that unpredictably marked the edge of the wrong way to the exit... 'nuff said (partner driving!)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The day was saved by arrival at the beautiful town of Vejer de la Frontier, a "white pueblo" perched on top of a mountain with the most beautiful view to the horizon. Sunset was spectacular, and sun -rise from our bedroom window, even better. Our room was an ice-blue with a deep red trim which altered my taste for white walls forever...and we ate the best Moroccan food on my tour to date at Caliph's, where it fused with Lebanese and African to delight the palate. The best white wine of the trip to date was also discovered earlier, at a bar in the Plaza de Espana which had groovy lights standing next to every outdoor table, so we could watch the parade of locals go about their business in outstanding comfort. The walk around the Jewish quarter and back to the other side takes about 10 minutes from view to view...a wonderful discovery of a town which we want to return to some day -one we wished we had more time to explore.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After breakfast in the hostal and greeting all the German tourists - a really cultured lot - we drove south to the beaches of Trafalgar point (where he defeated the French and Spanish Armadas) on Costa de Luz, travelling through an ex hippy town, and on to Arcos. We walked the steep hill to the Cathedral Square to take in the view, and had lunch at the Parrador with the most wonderful view across Andalucia from a full length and width picture window.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We hit the road again and got lost with our small and detail -less maps, but saw Gratzelema - another pretty white Pueblo in an unbelievably precarious position - and found our way to our destination at Ronda. We stayed in a seriously old house in Riad (Moroccan) style with a pretty garden overlooking the Rio (River)... and had drinks at sunset in Hotel Juan Bosco. The skies were truly magnificent, the valleys with olives, the bridge at Rondo hilariously perched.....</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We then took Lonely Planet's suggestion and went out of our way to find the Bar San Francisco (named after the plaza it's in, not the city) and realised that LP is not a reliable judge of food, let alone tapas. Oh well - we ate well last night...</span></span></div><div><div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-92132303604946461312011-06-26T00:27:00.000-07:002011-06-26T00:29:27.363-07:00Stolen from Kaliman on Facebook<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I can't resist re-posting this automatic artists statement generator, first seen on my facebook page, posted by Rudi Kaliman. Talk about laugh!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/262/# (also title link)</span></span></div>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-85425287707703271602011-05-27T13:22:00.000-07:002011-05-27T13:51:27.473-07:00Images from Seville<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPP1woqz7oAvpsAjvTi9UIsoAEIwU0etDtI8TeKyGNEl5GYd8w9ljcJll6P5oEjbF-HPQ9r02atyEnqJhS7x_1pzpEPnWwizx4gfXdht6T1mT42LHBdKZJTRc-KSx5fTJxRHYh_mvWRUk/s1600/IMG_7249.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPP1woqz7oAvpsAjvTi9UIsoAEIwU0etDtI8TeKyGNEl5GYd8w9ljcJll6P5oEjbF-HPQ9r02atyEnqJhS7x_1pzpEPnWwizx4gfXdht6T1mT42LHBdKZJTRc-KSx5fTJxRHYh_mvWRUk/s320/IMG_7249.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611500301619483986" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Alcazabar from the extensive gardens that surround it.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVqw8BX21rb9028V6ZVgYO_5SUGcuMOdQ-iYNetQlnOG9y9_ObMhoUYi-DMtHsvQlT_ZuQa72XnLHs2OONCIK2SfROxXubuT-Xue4LsUsom7czyDIsjZUaNpdIOiGRcH6le1vttPBTp4/s1600/IMG_7128.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVqw8BX21rb9028V6ZVgYO_5SUGcuMOdQ-iYNetQlnOG9y9_ObMhoUYi-DMtHsvQlT_ZuQa72XnLHs2OONCIK2SfROxXubuT-Xue4LsUsom7czyDIsjZUaNpdIOiGRcH6le1vttPBTp4/s320/IMG_7128.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611500300248176498" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Inside the main courtyard of the Alcazabar</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmec_H75WvhJrn26DivoZuV8QXO1K6D9SkWzVjlvdAy7W4MjnJGFtZpSoYEo32MIWe91L1qAwlY4Ot764WFlaUwF83RukJC7bcf-OmmM-nqOf9ImGZz7XVT7vL3ZuNR2OT4OFrEYYZv4/s1600/IMG_7115.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmec_H75WvhJrn26DivoZuV8QXO1K6D9SkWzVjlvdAy7W4MjnJGFtZpSoYEo32MIWe91L1qAwlY4Ot764WFlaUwF83RukJC7bcf-OmmM-nqOf9ImGZz7XVT7vL3ZuNR2OT4OFrEYYZv4/s320/IMG_7115.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611500294332000658" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Layers upon layers of finely carved decoration that manages still to have a restrained air</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-hQ8bTUon7ZTy7PUrhivQClJbE2oGmNLNWvrCGNRvfJKHOR1TjqBxV4qIMGBMV4hm6cV7PmSQ4cjjHYWgkgemJzlyix6FpfBchG4PsEh9as6u884WqaYgDMDl95yn-TKelkBhu_UtOP0/s1600/IMG_7629.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-hQ8bTUon7ZTy7PUrhivQClJbE2oGmNLNWvrCGNRvfJKHOR1TjqBxV4qIMGBMV4hm6cV7PmSQ4cjjHYWgkgemJzlyix6FpfBchG4PsEh9as6u884WqaYgDMDl95yn-TKelkBhu_UtOP0/s320/IMG_7629.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496486216945538" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Torreador stands close to the bull as it charges. A feat of skill and courage that needs to be seen to be believed - but only if you have the stomach for it)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK3cFMR7mak8y_ZGEahD4FQ7eC6_1d7-5v-IyloxMn_p_Y-P2C9SMBKAPyB9_oOqXak-os_H-h93H-6d31HWX4Efym9waWQHZ_jMPV5vCEtVJkN0EgmveDd6xXVG5gULDcJtiCnzliy8Y/s1600/IMG_7578.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK3cFMR7mak8y_ZGEahD4FQ7eC6_1d7-5v-IyloxMn_p_Y-P2C9SMBKAPyB9_oOqXak-os_H-h93H-6d31HWX4Efym9waWQHZ_jMPV5vCEtVJkN0EgmveDd6xXVG5gULDcJtiCnzliy8Y/s320/IMG_7578.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496393883375122" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The bull fight has enormous pageantry and tradition, and its colour and </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">drama can be seductive.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15jkFUFt_5NEB91aumSbDZc06UeqedJMa1Zdi2Qyf0p7p-sDRfkYTjAp3tJLkewFEcumWsrEcInILRjf006ggwUZKpZDggsT5qhrp7NdelUcs7dmpmrUJNkm-K2KUITmafdMmro_5mz0/s1600/IMG_7539.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15jkFUFt_5NEB91aumSbDZc06UeqedJMa1Zdi2Qyf0p7p-sDRfkYTjAp3tJLkewFEcumWsrEcInILRjf006ggwUZKpZDggsT5qhrp7NdelUcs7dmpmrUJNkm-K2KUITmafdMmro_5mz0/s320/IMG_7539.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496388817608418" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The wonderful old ceramics manufacturing building that now houses the city's contemporary art collection</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGS7_bbcs08T8h8IpjyAfx3bkcX0SNn1M120XEUurUgeDiCwyoPBazqGehy0JC7AAZXvItmTDSj6Ql4gbU3B3laH8-izaGkS3bo96doMUlzDqkxFgAb0JO-QXUP_lkQeuZc4W9sPZ6Sc/s1600/IMG_7562.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGS7_bbcs08T8h8IpjyAfx3bkcX0SNn1M120XEUurUgeDiCwyoPBazqGehy0JC7AAZXvItmTDSj6Ql4gbU3B3laH8-izaGkS3bo96doMUlzDqkxFgAb0JO-QXUP_lkQeuZc4W9sPZ6Sc/s320/IMG_7562.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496388370878994" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The procession for Pentecost Sunday which winds through the narrow laneways, is accompanied by a full brass band playing appropriately dirge like music and can be heard for blocks away.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihpZ_1I6lJsDujyIMpiCFxg6Khq7WFL_jahnWsz9zTGwLsUcL6WALgxjn2KGHn-g96LKHQzH5RBqP7A1tywM7-3bv-zWNz_szvIDABPF4VY9QPWkr9LWZw6rP4BlWAMkk0rWyMnjOyUyY/s1600/IMG_7517.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihpZ_1I6lJsDujyIMpiCFxg6Khq7WFL_jahnWsz9zTGwLsUcL6WALgxjn2KGHn-g96LKHQzH5RBqP7A1tywM7-3bv-zWNz_szvIDABPF4VY9QPWkr9LWZw6rP4BlWAMkk0rWyMnjOyUyY/s320/IMG_7517.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496380832383154" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Youths spend time practicing to manoeuvre the heavy framework that underlies the highly decorated Eucharistic procession. We wondered what they were doing, and put it down to an Islamic thing, since their heads were covered in shawls that looked like Berber headwear - until we saw the above procession, that is.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_aahphbYSMol-qxMllqqA0sneyazSj9JyfmlvZRDUL2TsypgVXJspyY23sK2-3-ygeZZzItTcSGAebZBVR8AJ0bcMaH2Q8plijIRgkrhI8HhyAgz8sm0izG309NgcIx6gQzzY_IXOEw/s1600/IMG_7493.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_aahphbYSMol-qxMllqqA0sneyazSj9JyfmlvZRDUL2TsypgVXJspyY23sK2-3-ygeZZzItTcSGAebZBVR8AJ0bcMaH2Q8plijIRgkrhI8HhyAgz8sm0izG309NgcIx6gQzzY_IXOEw/s320/IMG_7493.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496377019162754" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Strollers on the bridge at Sunset in Seville</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicrAqm2cIGy49u4WcaF14oPGkv3epSUFE27z7E908Cf40LcJzDhK8J_ITQJmkHYz26hJI27v-aqHjVVo3VBGhP-ABGLeZTcC85sraFNxEnB5lq62LSdAOgWUw_iMg_BGZrGLzEPOv4jp0/s1600/IMG_7451.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicrAqm2cIGy49u4WcaF14oPGkv3epSUFE27z7E908Cf40LcJzDhK8J_ITQJmkHYz26hJI27v-aqHjVVo3VBGhP-ABGLeZTcC85sraFNxEnB5lq62LSdAOgWUw_iMg_BGZrGLzEPOv4jp0/s320/IMG_7451.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496161707121010" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Plaza Espana - a decorative, non functional folly containing ceramics at their most mixed and gaudy, still delights. Here the boats to hire to row a circuit of the "moat" around the construcion.</span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfmB1tTxqnyc1n1816W-OEW3MKpCTWNkTaxegoOQnMcMc4AW-bOPHlVZU0unXEiDPiNK0mu41uc-kqIDrFeCJ2YkTrTskG-KdT0DOCNNEfcMSlRs_I3kauxhbdUO7OX-y5OIKwvawc_w/s1600/IMG_7427.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfmB1tTxqnyc1n1816W-OEW3MKpCTWNkTaxegoOQnMcMc4AW-bOPHlVZU0unXEiDPiNK0mu41uc-kqIDrFeCJ2YkTrTskG-KdT0DOCNNEfcMSlRs_I3kauxhbdUO7OX-y5OIKwvawc_w/s320/IMG_7427.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496164453095122" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A large architectural structure found in the middle of nowhere, with no reference in the guidebooks, which covered the student protest now growing in Seville as well as Madrid. we think it was near one of the Universities.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJjC4IMnDEmZ3Bfii5dCl5gqLwk2aZqoYcDpY3KnXAvEbvkiotEnqGDzSOTxqp-L7lXjHSdw_V8vTf098puWINWSs-GmrXu9ZwGxjJeoElcyGRm2ebnZ1pSq052PtQrd7Z3kHagHgdnY/s1600/IMG_7409.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJjC4IMnDEmZ3Bfii5dCl5gqLwk2aZqoYcDpY3KnXAvEbvkiotEnqGDzSOTxqp-L7lXjHSdw_V8vTf098puWINWSs-GmrXu9ZwGxjJeoElcyGRm2ebnZ1pSq052PtQrd7Z3kHagHgdnY/s320/IMG_7409.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496152765752178" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Seville as seem from the bell tower of the Cathedral</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Qv_WbWeX_hg5ZQQmPDLY0rOloFIfZxGeDYRf4UhqS9Yog7NNpsbsaMzQvibYjkeX2UySA5Nmgdhk1cvmPfa14g13BRkruiZNb9U5XvkWE9B-uuhZK-cZS9yvSse1q7nKEIYUJ9kfMF0/s1600/IMG_7391.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Qv_WbWeX_hg5ZQQmPDLY0rOloFIfZxGeDYRf4UhqS9Yog7NNpsbsaMzQvibYjkeX2UySA5Nmgdhk1cvmPfa14g13BRkruiZNb9U5XvkWE9B-uuhZK-cZS9yvSse1q7nKEIYUJ9kfMF0/s320/IMG_7391.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496148742053682" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The main, highly decorated altar of the Cathedral. A more constrained version of Spanish baroque</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguy68vUH7PIpnbdWg2npt_sKeUyGRc78ehyxZTR51XZjwajlWqUMOCoWkoVmBnMLfMKctT1ESd12sNE4fjrgT1r4R6Lq50N9NdRGgp9Ksz5uSiNhbGrVDVC3QLQlO9zgaVdmdAA7UpChA/s1600/IMG_7333.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguy68vUH7PIpnbdWg2npt_sKeUyGRc78ehyxZTR51XZjwajlWqUMOCoWkoVmBnMLfMKctT1ESd12sNE4fjrgT1r4R6Lq50N9NdRGgp9Ksz5uSiNhbGrVDVC3QLQlO9zgaVdmdAA7UpChA/s320/IMG_7333.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611496145109006402" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The facade of the cathedral</span></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hearing the “Clip clop” of horses hooves as they trot the cobbled pathways across the whole of the historical centre - the "Sound of Seville" for me.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Endless Nights of eating and drinking – how do the locals do it? (And could someone PLEASE put that young , screaming child to bed at once!)</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The most beautiful Alcazar I have ever seen. Complete, well preserved with stunning gardens creating an oasis in the middle of the city and a place for a romantic stroll, complete with peacocks..</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Warm nights walking through the park, home to our Hostal.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">River cruise at sunset – water is silver, silence prevails, and the air is fresh.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Walking the Triana district and eating fish by the river</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Political contemporary art was far too didactic for my tastes (is it visual art or political commentary??), but timely for Spaniards, considering the student occupation of the main squares across the country.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Trying to find eggs for breakfast –we did on the last day!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why are there no real tomatoes left in Spain??? (“Tomate” just doesn’t cut it!)</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I agree with Ernest Hemmingway that Bull fights are “a wonderful Nightmare”. The colour, the drama and the courage. The way the animal and the human dance together and eye each other off. I know animal rights people have every right to complain, and I was very conflicted about the bulls being killed, whilst respecting the tradition that started this, but there is some magic there, as well.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Barrio Santa Cruz and the Jewish quarter are wonderful places to get lost in.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The best food really can be in the tourist areas. We had the two best Tapas meals outside our hotel!</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177083309023363097.post-31880066238486502272011-05-27T12:40:00.000-07:002011-05-27T13:07:13.190-07:00Three Days in Madrid<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadpb4nseYfXmGeigZn04K7OnU5-JG35DvcVj6BkvzhQWheA2z3UwL0YowefVWDVBZujCruDacfGKgoTVqkuMf9JiNefjDeBkLdt5jEVIygNoIizmfZ0PhTkQXnj_8Jlxdu6LpDNNLYvA/s1600/IMG_7000.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadpb4nseYfXmGeigZn04K7OnU5-JG35DvcVj6BkvzhQWheA2z3UwL0YowefVWDVBZujCruDacfGKgoTVqkuMf9JiNefjDeBkLdt5jEVIygNoIizmfZ0PhTkQXnj_8Jlxdu6LpDNNLYvA/s320/IMG_7000.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484973748219794" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Students Protesting in the Plaza del Sol, which we passed daily on our walks to museums. The numbers grew rapidly from just a few with home made signs, to a large media scrum</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3AY6pbaCgm0V13iFj5i45kvllv5cX42CAIVB1Fy8hVszLEpt5RPI_4KnAHP7DlCkktBKuwRAPdNmwmErk65OVg3tsqg_phD42tyfsd8tfxINwRhKykxtvgC_B5J2ynqD8M_ZaeZ4fNs/s1600/IMG_6976.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3AY6pbaCgm0V13iFj5i45kvllv5cX42CAIVB1Fy8hVszLEpt5RPI_4KnAHP7DlCkktBKuwRAPdNmwmErk65OVg3tsqg_phD42tyfsd8tfxINwRhKykxtvgC_B5J2ynqD8M_ZaeZ4fNs/s320/IMG_6976.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484968656195858" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Getting up close and personal with the fabulous exhibition by Leon Golub in the almost more fabulous cultural space in the Parque Real.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTvB63cqzl3qPuRTjpV1-AtLs6qxnvepqbDwFpVfCIRYm41hG37nbHgzhysfl4fVGu6eBbw7IAlFMd5dtH0OxXfankyVAVoFF5vkmJk68wYcrOlv20xTXi5bzu7DuBuqm0kbElcDpt28/s1600/IMG_6957.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTvB63cqzl3qPuRTjpV1-AtLs6qxnvepqbDwFpVfCIRYm41hG37nbHgzhysfl4fVGu6eBbw7IAlFMd5dtH0OxXfankyVAVoFF5vkmJk68wYcrOlv20xTXi5bzu7DuBuqm0kbElcDpt28/s320/IMG_6957.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484967352732770" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The interior of the almost deserted cafe at Reina Sofia. Seems the locals and tourists flock mostly to see the older, Name art. So what's different???</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMkoyAmEN8xdgSGyNCLPCw6NITd85Y4BwTX8eGJ9nqRSSkrDBYgD-hNirJygPixmPe9AnFE7mcnP_5GOs1jBzZmLkh_CzgjlHiIQXV4Up24xQuYXH6erEK-Vb32CXNLi99ghYt1oaH7Ac/s1600/IMG_6955.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMkoyAmEN8xdgSGyNCLPCw6NITd85Y4BwTX8eGJ9nqRSSkrDBYgD-hNirJygPixmPe9AnFE7mcnP_5GOs1jBzZmLkh_CzgjlHiIQXV4Up24xQuYXH6erEK-Vb32CXNLi99ghYt1oaH7Ac/s320/IMG_6955.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484966347221730" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Loved this sculpture at the entrance between the old and new buildings at Reina Sofia, which is to my mind the best gallery in Madrid</span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6TRFv0rPJXMN7pz0T8iqE97GdGMMFZ5uHRdnShAPCjh4x6_Sn-RF4Ekbga6qhwIEPILnVhO8PQUuxHlAI9loorOx4_hjtQBHQky72r6ZScUGarMIXr3C0W2NN3_NM69CLa4BP-X3Cfc/s1600/IMG_6926.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6TRFv0rPJXMN7pz0T8iqE97GdGMMFZ5uHRdnShAPCjh4x6_Sn-RF4Ekbga6qhwIEPILnVhO8PQUuxHlAI9loorOx4_hjtQBHQky72r6ZScUGarMIXr3C0W2NN3_NM69CLa4BP-X3Cfc/s320/IMG_6926.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484775320313410" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Graphics in the Mercado, an experience in itself (rather like Simon Johnstons)> Quite Beautiful to stroll in and salivate</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPj-0PMltaMtDFV_AeFnkupYsQQy_uJ70fLokmu0hSb43Zp2qloarMeUlY9v9XHte1SpHrWUQRUXXM6jtbsaE_QM-uWCq7MSG7KBxwhTVOMqTBrmBlc8VbhbnTzu049_JwoqayqzsbHOY/s1600/IMG_6873.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPj-0PMltaMtDFV_AeFnkupYsQQy_uJ70fLokmu0hSb43Zp2qloarMeUlY9v9XHte1SpHrWUQRUXXM6jtbsaE_QM-uWCq7MSG7KBxwhTVOMqTBrmBlc8VbhbnTzu049_JwoqayqzsbHOY/s320/IMG_6873.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484772412285570" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The gardens and cafes at the entrance to the Palacio in front of the Palace Real</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93utuwIA_05kj_8h5VQKlLisSbDHCEYbKHo5Dh6cWJyugR24ohgOYrNZTw8PDBiwm9Vlf9TWhyphenhyphen4Ww3mVdZWhYhxpW2seUd2K3nJDKG1Mebq2cfKaj4GzmbPDjsciYb5vmMhQRxO7rqT0/s1600/IMG_6857.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93utuwIA_05kj_8h5VQKlLisSbDHCEYbKHo5Dh6cWJyugR24ohgOYrNZTw8PDBiwm9Vlf9TWhyphenhyphen4Ww3mVdZWhYhxpW2seUd2K3nJDKG1Mebq2cfKaj4GzmbPDjsciYb5vmMhQRxO7rqT0/s320/IMG_6857.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484768278610562" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Cathedral near the Palacio Real (main Cathedral in Madrid). It is decorated in bright colours and modern designs and makes a wonderful change from all the other beautiful but traditionally decorated cathedrals visited on this trip.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXNf68s8a078CtTJSN22nwj_QIbhz6uBy8c9U1ZmtwLnpUHbFbGwuUaZjRsCYyObqqWTlCaO9ovGc_G01tjGowpMJ2NldPt38qPH3H0PCsWZ7iGU3d_sZbqJgmgxs0lB-NHhUYq_K4Mw/s1600/IMG_6834.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXNf68s8a078CtTJSN22nwj_QIbhz6uBy8c9U1ZmtwLnpUHbFbGwuUaZjRsCYyObqqWTlCaO9ovGc_G01tjGowpMJ2NldPt38qPH3H0PCsWZ7iGU3d_sZbqJgmgxs0lB-NHhUYq_K4Mw/s320/IMG_6834.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484768983897026" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">View of Madrid from the Cupola of the cathedral</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZ90mDVzV-zDIIITXwOOGFppowSDO9RrlO1zTKwQOcoXby4WCJSfhsKYDbndEtLfaQ4iyVWAvix163UsjZ8jygEwTdQXm6f92c6sl_KYYZ3le7cEhN-F9pij8dEpIcPagIuMeuKLcJnQ/s1600/IMG_6799.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZ90mDVzV-zDIIITXwOOGFppowSDO9RrlO1zTKwQOcoXby4WCJSfhsKYDbndEtLfaQ4iyVWAvix163UsjZ8jygEwTdQXm6f92c6sl_KYYZ3le7cEhN-F9pij8dEpIcPagIuMeuKLcJnQ/s320/IMG_6799.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484765705009074" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Palacio Real, complete with headless dummies on Flamenco dress. Would be great to say this was a modern art installation - instead, it was another chance to take money in exchange for a photograph.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMQq1tfyQfcBVBtPx7TVFdSZLFhyphenhyphenoaJlKq1TCXSn0wXNGLtm3ofpj75anHmzteyppoWTsUqqV25JHr0KuZQpjtjYXQHLa9IVERQzXFKJqkCCQrJQskRu42nhbmsGrYrD5DO_nxiN7FRo/s1600/IMG_6789.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMQq1tfyQfcBVBtPx7TVFdSZLFhyphenhyphenoaJlKq1TCXSn0wXNGLtm3ofpj75anHmzteyppoWTsUqqV25JHr0KuZQpjtjYXQHLa9IVERQzXFKJqkCCQrJQskRu42nhbmsGrYrD5DO_nxiN7FRo/s320/IMG_6789.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484502807428562" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Creative Graffiti in Madrid town</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-cMV0gxU1NxyEzz8rCe9nsPv0nP71m_Z-PTzEhwNQikhK2YoTx8ALjxR6vFAcTyUgUGEDTChsEQg11JEZOI8hD_VHAZnqnY22LQ1EOwM-u-jre8BfiMkOsiwPIJqYUfg5dahNuypCCY/s1600/IMG_6747.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-cMV0gxU1NxyEzz8rCe9nsPv0nP71m_Z-PTzEhwNQikhK2YoTx8ALjxR6vFAcTyUgUGEDTChsEQg11JEZOI8hD_VHAZnqnY22LQ1EOwM-u-jre8BfiMkOsiwPIJqYUfg5dahNuypCCY/s320/IMG_6747.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484499956719106" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">A landmark in Madrid - The Circulogico</span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2HhKjrT6BwLvNZ8Ai1qa0WC96kB1JEaqXQtvxjea44pS-FccB1jQwCeopLuBhn7YTHEajavhe1uroRCoRV5pd1q6IwcLXiEcN3iVfs9dsg5Tvtt14sAl5MqgTL4hDCECKV1JMSsT_04/s1600/IMG_6652.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2HhKjrT6BwLvNZ8Ai1qa0WC96kB1JEaqXQtvxjea44pS-FccB1jQwCeopLuBhn7YTHEajavhe1uroRCoRV5pd1q6IwcLXiEcN3iVfs9dsg5Tvtt14sAl5MqgTL4hDCECKV1JMSsT_04/s320/IMG_6652.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484494849502962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">Trees in the Parque real - Alice in Wonderland, Anyone???</span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbxSB3WBaUO8_QJCpZ8gJPWxC0UeJ0DyZzPJj24MYAB5uqus553iOSsZI9wYoQjskX-j_E2FoIZbqQgyNaehDvg1JMuarZWMTvvmgnzr99XtK_D5pv-VPNjB6pmIuzpH79pmTsrVtqmE/s1600/IMG_6642.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbxSB3WBaUO8_QJCpZ8gJPWxC0UeJ0DyZzPJj24MYAB5uqus553iOSsZI9wYoQjskX-j_E2FoIZbqQgyNaehDvg1JMuarZWMTvvmgnzr99XtK_D5pv-VPNjB6pmIuzpH79pmTsrVtqmE/s320/IMG_6642.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484488053273682" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the Foyer at The Prado Museum (Colour co-ordinated!)</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnG1sirINvBlR4cLoX-gSeaOr18wxHyXGDU9_FTNvNo8z8A-0StKAZuKDcBbWQot-GRZ5kWDOmrRCUfMTsqpoHvzIOuvAhQkTuznpZ9-P5Mh97XQAB1PwnQKUgSXoVKSiCmVFqyZlxORM/s1600/IMG_6639.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnG1sirINvBlR4cLoX-gSeaOr18wxHyXGDU9_FTNvNo8z8A-0StKAZuKDcBbWQot-GRZ5kWDOmrRCUfMTsqpoHvzIOuvAhQkTuznpZ9-P5Mh97XQAB1PwnQKUgSXoVKSiCmVFqyZlxORM/s320/IMG_6639.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611484482944857154" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They start them soooo young in Spain! This was a school group taken out for the day to the Prado - I'm guessing the kids were about 4 years old! So tiny. If we don't even try until they are in high school, how will our kids ever develop the same love of the arts?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Arrived via the very human sized airport at Marrakech, into the groovy designed one at Madrid. Good connections and a helpful cabbie had me in town in good time to walk the many narrow streets and explore the plazas, sit in the Plaza Santa Ana and enjoy some tapas before hitting the sack. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Over the next few days we took in most of the Prado Museum, The Chardin exhibition and Heironymous Bosch being the stand out for us as well as a happy visit to Velaquez’s “Las Meninas”. Again, racing past Rubens to see Tintorettos needs some rationalising, and in the end we did our tastes and the museum proud, being very disciplined in what we saw. I also saw most of the later art in the Thyssen Bournimisza Museum, a private collection made public which boasts an excellent Monet and Van Gogh, but mostly interesting because it presents some good works of a wealth of artists that may never make publication in art books. The German Expressionist Painters and the Fauves are very well represented, Pechstein being the rediscovery of a great artist, for me.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I also took two broken visits to see the art at the Reina Sofia, a truly magnificent building (being a former palace, as most of these museums are) with an outstanding modern extension which seems to house only the library and the café. I like their style! We spent some time in front of Guernica, which didn’t disappoint, as well as in the surrounding rooms which present studies and sketches and other related finished paintings and information. I then explored the rest of the museum, with Juan Gris being the re-discovered artist, as well as cementing my astonishment at Picasso’s output as well as versatility and willingness to experiment throughout his life.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The student protests, centred in Plaza del Sol, are growing at a great rate and I wonder whether Spain will be next in the revolution stakes. I think Daniel would fit in well here.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Other places of interest we visited were the Palacio Real, which for my mind, leaves Buckingham palace for dead in decoration, creativity, and sheer capriciousness –every room had a different theme, no “reserve” here – and its armaments collection. Never would I have imagined that Knights in armour could look so good, in delicately carved and well designed and engineered metal made by the best European craftsmen, Silversmiths etc of their time, from Italy and Germany. It would have been a truly awe-inspiring sight to be waving madly in a crowd, as those knights, astride their prancing, jangling horses, marched by. The horse armour was exceptionally sculptural and beautiful, and the lances unexpectedly long! Ouch!.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I also explored the Cathedral and the park Real, with the Crystal Palace floating near the duck pond, and saw an outstanding retrospective exhibition by Leon Golub in the beautiful palace building at the opposite end of the walkway.<br />We have still to find, great tapas mixed with great wine – local knowledge needed in this capital of Tapas.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If Madrid is about its art, it didn’t disappoint, although sometimes, too much art is just that. I need to rest my eyes…and some more modern art!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Gabrielle Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867614647994100161noreply@blogger.com0