This weekend I went to sunny Philedelphia with my friend from high school. We didn't do a ton - we just saw the Philly Art Museum and hung out at her aunt's house, but that was more than enough! I was too tired to drive all the way home yesterday, and so I went to bed early at woke up at 5 today to get to work. Even worse idea than driving at night... because now I'm so tired! Boo!
But we did see some totally awesome things! The coolest being this painting by Van Eyke:
But we did see some totally awesome things! The coolest being this painting by Van Eyke:
It may look unimpressive, but it was so tiny! About the size of my hands! The curator said that it was painted with a brush of two hairs...
And this photoshopped gate. Yes, I did commit a horrible faux pas, as soon as I saw this painting I said...
..."That gate looks totally 'shopped."
Though I have to admit that my friend said something equally funny, when we saw this altarpiece...
..."There's a bird trying to steal her hair!"
I love how the two of us did extremely well in Art History class, I got a 5 on the AP and I think she got a 4... if not a 5. And now, 3-4 years later, we're in a museum poking fun at altarpieces. Hey, we did appreciate some stuff! They had some great impressionist works (I'm sorry that the Renoir exhibit wasn't open yet, because that will be AWESOME!) and some cool non-western art as well. Here's my top three (besides the Van Eyke, but photgraphs can't do that stuff justice, it's like Dali or Color Field paintings, you have to be there.)
Lotus spent the weekend at her grandmother's. I'm such a typical teenage mom, dropping my hedgehog child onto her grandmother. Both of them like it, though, I think. At least, Mommy's never complained and Lotus has a whole room of her own, with a bed with piles of blankets to dig in.
She was sooo happy last night, but she got grumpy as soon as I tried to get her under the light to take her photo. I asked her "Don't you want to be famous on the internet!?" and she only replied by curling up into a ball and hissing. She wouldn't stop, even when I put her back on her mountain of blankets. So I decided she was done with playing and she went back in her cage, where she knocked her bowl over and then had me put it back, knock it over, put it back, until I finally gave up and went to bed.
Well, now I'm going to go back to work, then home to go to bed. Have a great week!
2 comments:
What fun post! I took lots of class on Medieval art/Christian art in college, so seeing them on your blog makes me want to dig up some old textbooks. My professor was a seriously goofy man who called the holy spirit "dove dive bombing".
Your hedgehog is too cute. Sounds like she has quite a personality. :)
Haha, dove dive bombing is a pretty accurate description! Thank you for your nice comment... and yes, Lotus has waaaay more personality than I think a hedgehog should have... "attitude" is probably a better word for her :D
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