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Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th Venice Biennale. Known for recontextualizing the iconic figures, colors, and textures throughout Western art history, Valdés once again pulls from well-known source material for Las Meninas a San Marco as he reinterprets the subjects of Diego Velázquez’s 1656 painting “Las Meninas,” or “The Ladies-in-waiting.” Led by the monumental “Infanta Margarita” who stands at the center of the original painting, the trailing figures are “Reina Mariana,” a nod to the infanta’s mother framed in a portrait in the background of Velzázquez’s work.
Las Meninas a San Marco has come under fire from Italia Nostra-Venezia, an organization that opposes galleries paying for public spaces to stage artworks and what it calls the “‘biennalization’ of the city.”
The project will be on view through June 15, when one of the “Reina Mariana” sculptures will be donated to the city.
One of my many favorite students was Chris Bright, now Christopher Bright, successful musician and entrepreneur. I had an email from him today and I thought I would share the links, his music is wonderful.
Welcome to christopherbright.com. My name is Christopher Bright and I spend my life making music. Currently, I write and record original music (Life Is My Soundtrack), make production music (for Film/TV), play in several bands, do session work, teach privately, and develop music-related software/apps. I’m also a #1 International Bestselling Author. I currently live and work in Southern California.
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This one is called Volant, and it's inspired by flight! I hope you enjoy it, and I'll have more new music for you soon! Thanks!!
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3 comments:
Jacki, this collage is so, so great, I adore it!
I also loved to see St. Mark's Square in Venice with the bronze Figures as I was so lucky to visit this place several times. Your pictures bring back many dear memories from out holidays in Venice with our children.
Thanks for this wonderful blog!
thank you again, dear Elenor. I am so happy for you to have enjoyed Venice, it looks wonderful. I love that when the showing id done, they will leave 1 bronze lady forever!
I like the line quality of this piece. :-)
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