Museum of Fine Arts Houston

While my parents spent the day shopping at the Houston Galleria, I visited the Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH).

While there, I learned about Buncheong, traditional Korean stoneware, Chaturanga, an Indian strategy game board, and viewed a wonderful collection of Pre-Columbian gold from Houston philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

I also viewed a great exhibit by photojournalist Roman Vishniac who captured Jewish refugees in Poland before the start of World War II, which is reminiscent to today's Syrian refugees.

At the museum, there were paintings by Camille Pissarro, Eugene Louis Boudin, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Winslow Homer, Gilbert Stuart, Frederic S. Remington, Edward Hopper, Leon Kroll, and Georgia O'Keefe.

MFAH (November 2015) taken with an iPhone 5S

Sources:

http://www.mfah.org/

Dylan Lisle

Art Appreciation

If you follow my blog, you'd probably recognize my appreciation for paintings of a woman's nude back.

There is one particular painting that I recently came across while surfing one of my favorite art blogs, Art Odyssey. The name of the painting is Chorus and it's by figurative painter, Dylan Lisle.

Chorus features a woman in black panties exposing her bare back. In the background is a painting of a crumbled red fabric. The crumbled red fabric and white fabric frames to perfection the smooth curves of the woman's back.

Lisle, who is known for his female nudes, has many wonderful paintings on his blog, http://dylanlisle.blogspot.com/. 

Downward Spiral via tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica

Chorus via artodyssey1

Sources:

http://dylanlisle.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dylan.lisle.50
https://twitter.com/dylanlisleart
https://www.instagram.com/villainousdylan/
http://www.uniongallery.co.uk/artists/dylan-lisle
http://www.saatchiart.com/dylanlisle
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2009/11/dylan-lisle-i-am.html
http://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2011/11/dylan-john-lisle-1978-england.html
https://gandalfsgallery.wordpress.com/page/25/
http://fonface.blogspot.com/2014/12/dylan-john-lisle.html
http://www.traceymcnee.com/index.php?page=lisle

When Harry Met Sally...

Film Appreciation

When Harry Met Sally... is perhaps my all time favorite Rob Reiner movie.

Released on July 14, 1989, the romantic comedy starred Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as well as Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby. Harry Connick, Jr. provided the wonderful soundtrack, which is a must on my holiday music playlist.

Of course, the most memorable part of the movie is the restaurant orgasm scene where Sally proves that woman can fake an orgasm.




via The World of Trailers



Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally...

Cosplay... Is An Art: San Diego Comic Con 2015 Cosplay and Convention Overview

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Ricardo Celma

Art Appreciation

Perhaps it's the Klimt influence that caught my attention of Ricardo Celma's paintings. One in particular is his interpretation of Danae, a well known Klimt painting of a Greek mythology story of divine love.

Ricardo Celma is an Argentinian artist known for his hyperrealistic paintings. You can see more of his wonderful paintings HERE.

Danae via sociedadedospoetasamigos 

Solo Pienso En Ti via iamachild 

La Despedida de Eros via artodyssey1 

Sources:

http://ricardocelma.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ricardo.celma.3
https://www.facebook.com/ricardocelma.arte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNNbZrGgH5o
https://vimeo.com/74215412
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2009/07/ricardo-celma-ricardo-celma-was-born-in.html
http://beautyloveandsoul.blogspot.com/2012/02/ricardo-celma.html
http://sociedadedospoetasamigos.blogspot.com/2013/06/ricardo-celma-artista-plastico-argentino.html
http://muchascosasenuno.blogspot.com/2013/03/ricardo-celma.html
https://iamachild.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/ricardo-celma-1975-argentine/

David Seymour

Photography Appreciation

David Seymour, also known as Chim, was a Polish photographer and photojournalist. He was the co-founder of Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and William Vandivert and is best known as the first international photographer commissioned by the UNICEF to travel and document WWII refugee children.

You can see more of his wonderful photos HERE.

A Disturbed Child in a Warsaw Orphanage (1948) 
via wikimedia

Pablo Picasso In Front of Guernica in Paris (1937) 
via nga

Sophia Loren posing in her home, Naples, Italy (1953) 

via icp

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour_(photographer)
http://www.unicef.org/emergencies/index_69785.html
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/David-Seymour.html

Cosplay... Is An Art: Dallas Comic Con 2014

via Nerd Ninja