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another below
this chair, I regretted not moving this chair the first time I was in there. I moved it as soon as I got upstairs this time.
I dont like the one below as much because of the lens distortion. I would LOVE a wide angle lens. Those are spendy though. So my 18-200 will have to do. It is a lovely lens, just not in tight spaces at 18.
If you lived in or visited Vancouver BC between 2009 to 2011 during the Vancouver Biennale, you may have seen these sculptures in Cadero Park beside the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Coal Harbour .
The figures by Chinese artist Wang Shugang were first exhibited at the 2008 G-8 summit meeting in Heillgendamm, Germany. The Vanouver showing was Shugang’s North American public art debut.
The painted bronze figures are on loan from Vancouver Biennale as part of the Montreal exhibition “La Balade pour la Paix: An Open-Air Museum”, presented by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), with the support of McGill University - on display until October 29th 2017.
ABOUT WANG SHUGANG
From Vancouver Biennale:
Though born in Beijing, China in 1960, Wang Shugang lived for ten years in Germany’s Ruhr region. He returned to live in Beijing, China in 2000, at 40 years old. Wang Shugang is one of the leading contemporary artists in the post revolutionary breakout period of the mid 1990s, referred to as Cynical Realism.
Shugang, together with his contemporaries Yue Minjun and Ai Weiwei, playfully and astutely mocks the history and political events of the Cultural Revolution and Maoist China. Since 1991, Wang Shugang’s works are regularly seen in solo exhibitions in Germany and China.
Wang Shugang’s figurative sculptures have been influenced by both the Western art tradition and contemporary twentieth-century realism while also expressing Buddhist iconography combined with Chinese everyday culture.
The artist generally uses only a few colors on his sculpture, painting them solid red, white, black or bronze. These colors have become a kind of language or a trademark of the artist. Typical of the work of Wang Shugang are the red “sweeping monks” and the “squatting” figures.
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Located on Avenida Paseo de la Reforma you can tour the most important and emblematic avenue in Mexico City and enjoy the largest Huichol Exhibition in the world during the month of February.
Here you will find 10 monumental works made by masters of Wixarika art.
The pieces range from sports figures to animal sculptures such as a family of elephants or a life-size rhinoceros, whose realization took more than five years, since it was made with beads bathed in gold and silver.
The production and artistic production is by CĂ©sar Menchaca, General Director of Menchaca Studio, and the support of Paricuta, a company that supports Mexican artisans.
More than 100 Huichol artists participated in the creation of these majestic works, around 20 million chaquiras were used to give life to the Huichol World’s Largest Expo.
About Huichol Art - from Mexico News Network:
Huichol art is done with chaquiras –small colored glass beads-, or colored threads on wooden boards or figurines that are prepared with a special wax, which allows the artisan to adhere every chaquira or thread one by one, it takes some time and a lot of patience, but this is part of the tradition; a tradition that has inspired designers and brands to take this ancestral artistic expression to the streets.
One of the eldest and purest ethnic groups in Mexico is the Wixarika or Huicholes, which have been able to maintain their traditions, rituals and artistic expressions through the passing of time.
This community lives mainly in western central Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit, and also parts of Durango and Zacatecas, and no matter the state they live in, they still honor their representative artistic expression, one of Mexico’s living traditional art: Huichol art.
The ancestral tradition of Huichol art comes from a deep inspiration, as a community that is committed to traditions, rituals and even a unique cosmogony, so is their art.
Every piece made by a Huichol artisan reflects its customs, stories and symbols. In the past, these artistic expressions were inspired by those images visualized by shamans who consumed peyote in order to connect with the divine, meaning that art was part of a ritual.
It is amazing how approachable the art pieces are. If it was displayed like this in Vancouver, the vandals would be at it in a flash !
Garden of the Old Toffee Shop.
Blue Plaque reads:-
The Old Toffee Shop
Built in 1881
formerly a butcher’s & a sweet shop,
now a holiday cottage.
Renovated in 2016
by Mr & Mrs N D Halliwell
& local builders James
& Craig Cottrell
07703 326 599
The lovely thing about staying in a National Trust cottage is that you have the run of the grounds when everyone else has gone home... These were taken on our first evening at Hardwick Hall.
HBM!
OK, one last church shot - the interior of Cuernavaca's rather modernistic Cathedral.
The church and its surrounding monastery is one of the early 16th century monasteries in the vicinity of the Popocatepetl volcano, built initially for evangelization efforts of indigenous people after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
By the 18th century, the church of the monastery began to function as the parish church of the city and in the late 19th century, it was elevated to the rank of a cathedral.
Unlike many cathedrals in Mexico, this one does not face the city's main square, but rather is located just to the south, in its own walled compound, it shares with a number of other structures.
Unlike the other monastery structures from its time, the importance of this church provoked a number of renovation projects, the last of which occurred in 1957.
This reno took out the remaining older decorations of the interior and replaced them with simple modern ones.
The renovation work also uncovered a 17th-century mural that covers 400 square metres of the interior walls and narrates the story of Philip of Jesus and twenty three other missionaries who were crucified in Japan.
The golden hour in Weymouth and Portland 15.08.2015
I'm picking this for this weeks 52 weeks in 2015 project, week thirty three 13 to 19 August 2015...I love the light on the stone of Portland Castle
Taken on the day we visited Pendennis Castle. We had sailed across the bay from Helford (on the right hand side of the shot) earlier in the day. Very windy - I think the fastest time we have ever done Helford-Falmouth.
HBM!
St. Anthony's Church & School, An original structure, this tiny church was built in 1894 at 105 Street and 84 Avenue.
The chapel was also used as a school until 1901 when the new school addition was added to the church.
Magnificent and awe inspiring, Suffolk’s only cathedral, with stunning Millennium tower.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds.
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1377001
Date first listed: 07-Aug-1952
Statutory Address: CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ANGEL HILL
National Grid Reference: TL 85597 64117
Detail
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ANGEL HILL 639-1/8/187 (East side) 07/08/52 Cathedral Church of St James
GV I
Parish church; became the Cathedral church of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914. Early C16, on an earlier site; by John Wastell, master mason at the Abbey of St Edmund. C19 alterations by GG Scott, partly replaced by further extensions of 1960-70 by SE Dykes Bower. Faced in coursed squared limestone on the south and west apart from the clerestory which is in rubble flint. A steeply-pitched stone slate roof to the nave. PLAN: nave, north and south aisles, crossing and transepts, chancel and an incomplete central tower. EXTERIOR: cloister range on the north. The nave, begun in 1503, was completed c1550. In 9 bays. A range of eighteen 2-light windows with cusped heads to the clerestory. 9 bays to each aisle with a range of 3-light windows, panelled and cusped, and stepped full-height buttresses between them. Doors below the windows in the 4th and 8th bays. Battlemented parapets. A 5-light transomed window to the embattled west end of each aisle and a very large transomed 7-light west window to the nave with a decorated base. Diagonal buttresses with ornate panelling to the aisles. The pinnacled west gable was designed by Scott, but the chancel, rebuilt to his design in 1865-9, was demolished to make way for the work of the 1960s, still not fully completed. This is in a Tudoresque style using a combination of Clipsham and Doulting stone with flint flushwork panels to the outer walls. INTERIOR of the nave is very high with arcades of 9 bays to north and south. The piers are lozenge-shaped with 4 thin shafts and 4 broad hollows in the diagonals. The brightly-painted roof, replaced by Scott, has arched-braced hammer-beam trusses and is in 18 short bays. Every alternate hammer-beam has a carved figure bearing a shield. A heavily-decorated cornice and frieze. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 141).
Listing NGR: TL8559764117
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 141