Art Gallery Trekking #8 - 2018

Art Gallery Trek #8

November 23, 2018, Friday afternoon

MUSEO PICASSO

Barcelona, Spain


This is the museum we stood in line - in the rain! -  to enter for almost one hour.
This is the musuem I could not wait to visit!

All works of Picasso at various times in his art career.

Picasso, Picasso, Picasso and more Picasso!

"L'espera (Margot)", Paris - Year: 1901

Portrait De Dora Maar" (the love of his life)

Year:  1937

"Autorretrat" (Self Portrait)

Year:  1899-1900

"Las Meninas- num. 1",  Cannes

Year: 1957

and so many, many more!

I am hoping that y'all were able to watch the National Geographic channel series "Genius" in which they did 8 episodes of Picasso!  I just love Picasso!  (P.S. Genius also did a series on Einstein - another favorite man of mine).  

Art Gallery Trekking # 7 - 2018

Art Gallery Trek #7

November 19, 2018, Monday afternoon

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Founders Collection

Lisboa, Portugal

1.   Ruben "Retrato de Helena Fourment"

2.   Edgar Degas "Portrait of Henri Michel-Levy, France"

Year:  1878

3.    D. Bouts "Anunciacao"  (The Annunciation)

and so many, many more.

Art Gallery Trekking #6 - 2018

Art Gallery Trek #6

November 11, 2018, Sunday Evening

Museo Nacional Del Prado
Madrid, Spain

Viewed the following famous paintings: 

1.    Alberto Duero

"Adan y Eva" -  Year:1507

2.   Alberto Duero

"Autorretrato" - Year: 1498

The following is one of my all time favorites that I studied in my masters program which just simply took my breath away!

3.   None other than:   Rafael

"El cardenal" - Year - 1510-1511 

4.    Pedro Pablo Ruben

"Las tres Gracias" - Year: 1630-1635

(We all recognize a Ruben painting immediately upon viewing because his figures are all - shall I say "healthy" looking!  My professor termed them "Rubenesque"

and so many, many more!

Art Gallery Trekking #5 - 2018

Art Gallery Trek #5

November 11, 2018, Sunday morning

Museo Nacional
Centro De Arte

REINA SOFIA
Madrid, Spain

Two famous paintings that we viewed at this museum:

1.  Pablo Picasso - "Figure"  1928

(One would say, just a simple uncomplicated line drawing - ahhh, but I do not believe so.  Take a closer look - do you first see that Picasso grayed the entire sheet of drawing paper with graphite, then erased out his design producing a side portrait, finally he drew (in only his unique style) another portrait it graphite).

2,  Pablo Picasso  - "Guernica"  1937

and so many, many more!

Art Gallery Trekking - 2018

Art Gallery Trek #4

Lawndale Art Center

4912 Main Street

Houston, TX

THE BIG SHOW

Below are a couple of art works that I really liked.  

Enjoy!

Art Gallery Trekking - 2018

Gallery Trek #1

"Off The Wall Gallery"  

610 West Loop, The Galleria, Houston, Texas 

At "Off The Wall Gallery" you will find original works of art from the Impressionaist and Belle Epoque periods, as well as contemporary impressionist works.  

I went to see some of the original art work of Malcolm Liepke whose work is unabashed, confident and human.  Narrative figurative paintings are his thing.  I'm hoping they become my thing!  His paint is thick, and the brush stokes are often visable and wide-set. Oil is his chosen medium.  Bold brushstrokes, rich buttery surfaces and most importantly, the timeless humanity of his classically inspired imagery have yielded him tremendous success around the world!

Enjoy.