Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts

Friday, January 26, 2018

Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.

As we get close to the completion of the trip, we get to the capital of Asturias, Oviedo. It is seen as a somewhat wealthy and well to do town. People dress quite well and seem to spend lots of time in bars, cafes and restaurants. This may also be partly linked to the fact that we were there during a festival weekend. A bit of a student town, too, but it really is a nice place to go, even if they have a Woody Allen statue.


Plenty of baked love here.
The boulevard of cider, maybe also broken dreams.

Look at these beauties. I know a couple of Olgas but are they this sweet?
Festival crowds getting the good seats.


I think this statue is related to the churros.....

The next morning was a little hazy, and no, it wasn't because of the cava the night before. I went for a run that day, and it was amazing to see the town at 7AM the morning after the festival. Hazy for me, and hazy for others in a very different way.

I've started to return my love to my roots of 70s glass doors, my father would be proud... I think.



Ice cream neons, must be festival related!

On the second day we went to the museum of fine arts of Asturias, and it was surprisingly good. You have to love a dragon and saint.

I had some massive hair envy here.

I think the disciples are wishing deodorant was invented by the looks on their faces. 

The great babcia


I wish that years ago I had started the series of babies with the faces of old men, this would be a contender for man baby of the year.

This was an amazing painting called "The hospital garden" of Carl Frithjof Smith.

Just look at that granny!

 

A really cool window with the reflection of passersby




Some of the neons



These neons depict how I felt in Oviedo, it is a cool little town. Good food, wine and coffee and easy to get around.




Monday, October 23, 2017

Brescia Museum.

An amazing place is the Santa Giulia City Museum it is based in an old convent originally founded in 753AD. Honestly, there are so many photos here, I won't say much with the exception that the Brescia Museum is like the entire town of Brescia underrated and something well worth the effort. Please enjoy the photos.










When making the museum they actually found an old Roman domus in the area and there were these beautiful mosaic floors.
























I am a massive fan of etchings, I wish I had some, and people would come up to my house to see them. That and the details are amazing.




Frutti di Mare anyone?


Italian chickens look different.

a little evil

The ridiculously good Antonio Rasio in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and his foods of the season. Worth the entrance price just to stare at these for half an hour.




It appears I've run out of time already!