New Orleans
A Little Fruit with those Veggies, Please
I’ve been meaning to post this for so long that it seems appropriate to do it now while I’ve just mentioned Mardi Gras costumes, which conjures dressing up in disguise. This reminds me of Arcimboldo exhibit that my son Piers and I saw at the National Gallery of Art while he was in town for winter break. I had studied Archimboldo for my Art History major but wasn’t really familiar with the details of his work. I was mesmerized by how everything he painted, in exceptional detail, had some sort of symbolic meaning and or was attributed to the world’s fascination, at the time, with new found flora and fauna…
- Celebrations & Events, Creative Process, Culture, Family, Fashion, Functional Art, Kick-Start the Weekend, Music, New Orleans
Mardi Gras Costumes get a Copyright
Copyrighting The Mardi Gras Indians' Costumes is discussed on Art Is Everywhere as well as New Orleans music.
- Architecture, Creative Process, Culture, Design, Education, Everyday, Kick-Start the Weekend, Music, New Orleans, Performance, Uncategorized
Guédelon
I became completely curious when I first learned of this fascinating endeavor to build a new Medieval Guédelon Castle in the town of Treigny, in Burgundy, France. The work was to simulate original Medieval construction methods. Even the workers must wear Medieval clothes to closely mimic how the labor was affected by all the details. The work was conceived in 1996 and began in 1998, when a French landowner, Michel Guyot , who happens to own a real St. Fargeau castle, wondered what if a new Medieval castle could be build from scratch the way castles were originally constructed. The project holds academic weight to give insight into Medieval Times.…
