Art - David Hockney at LA Louver

It’s worth it - so worth the drive to Venice to experience 

LA Louver’s exhibition of 

David Hockney 

Something New in Painting

(and Photography) (and even Printing)…
Continued

The wondrous colour, the aha - look what he’s done - photographs on photographs, pictures of the paintings - the Paintings - 

so alive as if a ball can fall right off the edge 

crayon on canvas - fun! 

charcoal on canvas - a giggle! Once again, it's about space and time and cut outs of people, digital people within the mural.....it's as if we can jump right into the picture of the picture. 

the mural

 the actual paintings

 the actual paintings
the space, the colour, the tipping the ball and blue onto yellow, the new blue and the new yellow as Louis Kahn would say.



LA Louver
45 North Vennice Blvd.
Venice, California 90291

the painting of a mirror - where am I? 

It all made me smile and think about my place in space. Thank you David Hockney

Travel - Sissinghurst Castle - The Timeless Magic of Vita Sackville-West and husband Harold Nicolson's renowned Castle and Garden

Nestled in Kent, two miles north-east of Cranbrook lies this iconic castle and garden.

It's name recorded as early as 1180, Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson fell in love with Sissinghurst and moved here in 1932.


"Sissinghurst has been a moated manor, an Elizabethan mansion, a spa, a prisoner-of-war camp, a work-house, a hamlet for farm workers and an allotment garden. Today it is a relic, more than halved in size and bearing the scars of much ill-treatment, yet calm, beautiful and unified in its latest reincarnation as a house standing in isolated brick segments in one of the loveliest gardens in England."

                                  - Nigel Nicolson

The tower, where Vita Sackville-West had her study.

Several buildings within the garden date from the original Tudor period. The Priest house is available to hire through the National Trust cottages.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle/

78 steps…shallow steps I might add.

The tower room above her study was filled with an exhibition of family history, and V. Sackville-West's poem of Sissinghurst, with a voice over of the poem being read by her.

Quite good to hear her voice.

 The view of Kent from above.

The walled garden.

The long library which houses over ten thousand books.

Painting of The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West   by Hungarian painter Philip Alexius de Laszlo, 1910.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West

 The white garden.

 Enormous white peonies and foxgloves.

The lady herself, photographed by Cecil Beaton on the steps of the tower 1956.














Now part of The National Trust, Sissinghurst is open April - October.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle/

Queen Victoria and Photography at The Getty Center lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The Getty
http://www.getty.edu

Arrive and lift your eyes to the sky via #evergreen

And Martin Puryear.

Queen Victoria's passion for photography began in the 1840's.
On view in this magnificent show are rare daguerreotypes, private portraits of the Royal Family, and a selection of prints by early masters of photography. 

 This image defines the British Empire.
Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Portrait
July 1893

There are many photographs on view of which none are permitted to be reproduced which, of course, is correct.
 Please go see this exhibition and delight in the interior view of this family. The Queen produced nine children. 

The lovely bougainvillea arbors.

Central Garden created by artist Robert Irwin.

"constantly changing, always whole"

http://www.getty.edu