tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post4439812907463154894..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Picasso's favourite watering hole in BarcelonaHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-31323839958307088132012-08-11T15:34:54.058+10:002012-08-11T15:34:54.058+10:00Jim
I have just spent 5 days in Barcelona (in lat...Jim<br /><br />I have just spent 5 days in Barcelona (in late July) which was great for fine weather but full of tourists. The queue for the Picasso Museum was VERY long, so get there early before the museum opens.<br /><br />Or study Picasso and his colleagues at the Els Quatre Gats instead. More expensive but no queue :)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-19012155616964940442012-08-11T14:27:45.055+10:002012-08-11T14:27:45.055+10:00I plan to visit here in a few weeks. Thanks for th...I plan to visit here in a few weeks. Thanks for the info. :)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16361781616939928650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-13668685484555964962012-08-08T12:54:22.418+10:002012-08-08T12:54:22.418+10:00babu
are you in or near Barcelona? Can you study ...babu<br /><br />are you in or near Barcelona? Can you study Picasso and his colleagues in their own territory?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-41475465999460568932012-08-08T02:29:24.407+10:002012-08-08T02:29:24.407+10:00From last few days I'm looking like this. A gr...From last few days I'm looking like this. A great post. It's so helpful to me.<br />Thanks,<br /><a href="http://babu21.com" rel="nofollow">History</a>babu21http://babu21.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-77416936407695738492012-08-05T12:19:40.453+10:002012-08-05T12:19:40.453+10:00Parnassus,
Wouldn't you have loved to be adul...Parnassus,<br /><br />Wouldn't you have loved to be adult enough in 1897 to have participated in those early years of music, art and drinking? If someone has images of 4 Gats' interior and exterior before World War One, I would love to see them.Helsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76105368177658653802012-08-05T06:07:48.732+10:002012-08-05T06:07:48.732+10:00A perfect example of originality (in this case arc...A perfect example of originality (in this case architectural) inspiring further creativity. I can see how this restaurant would become a hangout for the avant garde.<br /><br />On the exterior, I particularly like how the relatively plain areas of brickwork and stone quoins are set off by the ornate ironwork and carved stone.<br />--Road to ParnassusParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-48015232292132091272012-08-04T20:12:47.691+10:002012-08-04T20:12:47.691+10:00Jane and Lance
Isn't it amazing to think of y...Jane and Lance<br /><br />Isn't it amazing to think of young, energetic and talented artists who revelled in the Bohemian lifestyle. I bet their parents didn't approve of the clothes, the alcohol and the sexual freedom!<br /><br />This would have been true in lots and lots of cities, as you note with Budepest . Even though we know that most of the young Bohemians did not make long term careers for themselves in the arts.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-32983540843352130262012-08-04T20:03:18.426+10:002012-08-04T20:03:18.426+10:00Love Barca
Paris was so seductive that ambitious ...Love Barca<br /><br />Paris was so seductive that ambitious and creative people left their own countries and flocked to France. At least Spanish artists, like Picasso, Juan Gris and later Salvador Dali, could visit their families more easily than could Russians and Australians, for example.<br /><br />Barcelona must have been an exciting cultural centre in its own right, however. The painter-writer Santiago Rusinol spent time in Paris, but returned to Barcelona where he was particularly influential.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-14717326390671731972012-08-04T19:33:06.991+10:002012-08-04T19:33:06.991+10:00James
It really is a fascinating era, thanks.
Re...James<br /><br />It really is a fascinating era, thanks.<br /><br />Read Ocana, M.T et al<br />Picasso and Els 4 Gats: the early years in turn of the century Barcelona,<br />Published by Liitle, Brown + Co, Boston, 1996Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76544889008196369652012-08-04T18:07:30.842+10:002012-08-04T18:07:30.842+10:00Hello Hels:
This is all so very fascinating. What ...Hello Hels:<br />This is all so very fascinating. What a wonderful restaurant and one with such an interesting pedigree and how splendid to think that Picasso had his first ever show there to be followed with, albeit quite modest, his first commission.<br /><br />There are, as you may imagine, somewhat similar places here in Budapest, mostly where artists and later dissidents met.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-16100355617245373952012-08-04T12:55:28.690+10:002012-08-04T12:55:28.690+10:00Barcelona is wonderful. The artists should have st...Barcelona is wonderful. The artists should have stayed there, instead of running off to Paris.Love Barcanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-42222742212924390492012-08-04T12:19:17.679+10:002012-08-04T12:19:17.679+10:00This is seriously beautiful interior complementing...This is seriously beautiful interior complementing the history on the exterior. <br /><br />Thanks for this wonderful postroentarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11935487193733829245noreply@blogger.com