Travels etc.

During my recent visit to Art Gallery of NSW this painting drew my attention. It depicts the exchange of the land for cloth. I wouldn't start a discussion now about the fairness of this deal - first of all it is all history and second as a matter of fact this type of deals fits very well into the marketing and wealth building concepts that are promoted everywhere. However I researched this subject a bit and found that this painting is not the only one about this historical event. 01. The first one was  Treaty of Penn with Indians by Benjamin West That work, it appears, influenced Edward Hicks and other artists to create multiple paintings of the same event. The difference is in details: 02. 03. 04. 05. This image is from  AllPosters.com 06. 07. A 19th-century lithograph by Currier & Ives By the way, William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania . He ...

Report 1 Report 2 Report 3 01. 02.  03.  04. "Sunday evening" by Russell Drysdale 05. "Archaeopteryx" by Eric Thake 06.  07.  08. "Dawnbreakers" by Herbert McClintock 09. "No 35 Madame Sophie Sesostoris (a pre-Raphaelite satire)" by James Gleeson and Robert Klippel 10.  11.  12. "Toinette: by George Bell 13. 

Report 1 Report 2 Report 4 01. 02. Typo/Topography of Marcel Duchamp's Large glass by Richard Hamilton. Very interesting work conceptually. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. One and three tables by Joseph Kosuth 09. 10. 11. 12. Southern gravity by Richard Long 13. 14. 15. 16.  17. 18. 19. 20. 21. The idle hour by Arthur Murch 22.

Report 1 Report 3 Report 4 It was my first ever visit to the art gallery that represents that much of contemporary arts. I have got controversial feelings about this type of art, but anyway it was good experience. 01. This work illustrates move of a female body upside down. 02. 03.   04. Untitled (old woman in bed)  05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. Really scary thing. It also speaks something. 12. 13. Marc a l’encesa – 2 type C colour photographs, one burnt frame 14. 15. 16. 17. Vase of flowers.  18. 19. 20. Portrait relief PR3 (Portrait of Claude Pascal). 21. 22. Liked this one. Very strange. what do you want if there were anywhere but desert. wednesday all MOMENTS stop here and together we become every memory that has been 23. 24.  25. 26. 27.