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ickaimpThursday 3 Nov.
Went to the Getty and had a marvellous time. Did some sketches of various things that caught my eye. The exhibit on the illuminated manuscripts and the various Books of Hours was wonderful.
The one that caught my eye? The picture about the Sin of Lust from the Poiter's Book of Hours by Robinet Testard. Showing a foppishly dressed dandy sitting astride a goat (obviously male) and 'suggestively fingering the goat's horns'.
Ended up going -back- to the exhibit to do a sketch of this. And then wandered out of the exhibit scaring the security guards by cackling with David about 'we got the goat! we got the goat!'.
Why'd we get the goat?
Thinking it would be funny to do a parody of the picture for Tucson Barony, a dandy sitting on a boar and fondling the boar's ears. *leer*
Think I also annoyed the Dosen who was giving the Garden Tour. At the top of the central garden, he told us to keep an eye out for the various things the artist might have done.
We get to the bottom and he asks what did we see.
I raise my hand and rattle off a list of things I'd spotted. (large chaotic rocks to smaller organised rocks, the use of triangles and diamonds in contrast to the squares that dominate the buildings, the gradual introduction of the colour red leading into the round sculptures at the bottom, the use of circles as an accent, blending into the round water maze at the bottom, short plants at the top, tall plants at the bottom, etc etc)
It's all stuff I normally pick out of my surroundings, especially in an art museum, where I know it's on purpose.
The dosen stared at me for a moment, then -turned his back- to me and proceeded to continue the lecture to the rest of the group and ignored me for the rest of the tour. Which it was pretty much the end anyway.
Thought this was terribly funny for some reason.
Ysabet, you'd prolly go nuts in the garden around the water maze. Lots of variation.
Went to the Getty and had a marvellous time. Did some sketches of various things that caught my eye. The exhibit on the illuminated manuscripts and the various Books of Hours was wonderful.
The one that caught my eye? The picture about the Sin of Lust from the Poiter's Book of Hours by Robinet Testard. Showing a foppishly dressed dandy sitting astride a goat (obviously male) and 'suggestively fingering the goat's horns'.
Ended up going -back- to the exhibit to do a sketch of this. And then wandered out of the exhibit scaring the security guards by cackling with David about 'we got the goat! we got the goat!'.
Why'd we get the goat?
Thinking it would be funny to do a parody of the picture for Tucson Barony, a dandy sitting on a boar and fondling the boar's ears. *leer*
Think I also annoyed the Dosen who was giving the Garden Tour. At the top of the central garden, he told us to keep an eye out for the various things the artist might have done.
We get to the bottom and he asks what did we see.
I raise my hand and rattle off a list of things I'd spotted. (large chaotic rocks to smaller organised rocks, the use of triangles and diamonds in contrast to the squares that dominate the buildings, the gradual introduction of the colour red leading into the round sculptures at the bottom, the use of circles as an accent, blending into the round water maze at the bottom, short plants at the top, tall plants at the bottom, etc etc)
It's all stuff I normally pick out of my surroundings, especially in an art museum, where I know it's on purpose.
The dosen stared at me for a moment, then -turned his back- to me and proceeded to continue the lecture to the rest of the group and ignored me for the rest of the tour. Which it was pretty much the end anyway.
Thought this was terribly funny for some reason.
Ysabet, you'd prolly go nuts in the garden around the water maze. Lots of variation.
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Date: 2005-11-19 05:25 am (UTC)