Monday, June 07, 2010

Katoomba winter

more wood
reflection
lemons

Friday, June 04, 2010

Picasso: Peace and Freedom


Picasso: Peace and Freedom reveals Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, actively involved in politics and the Peace Movement during the Cold War. In October 1944 Picasso joined the French Communist Party and remained a member until his death in 1973. His work during this period chronicled human conflict and war but also expressed a deep desire for peace, international understanding and equality.

The exhibition looks at Picasso as a 'History Painter', injecting this traditional form of narrative painting with new significance and meaning. It tracks how he followed the success of Guernica 1937 as a political protest painting with a series of ambitious works reflecting events during the Cold War: The Charnel House 1944-45; the War and Peace murals; The Women of Algiers 1954-55; Las Meninas 1957; and The Rape of the Sabines series, painted at the height of Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.


Louise Bourgeois: 1911 - 2010

2007
Roppongi Hills Tokyo for the evening and what did we find ... another sighting of Maman ... Louise Bourgeois' huge spider!

Mining CEOs / and their woes

Tuesday, June 01, 2010