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some of the lockdown art I did with son didn't wanna forget the bad time so framed some and hung it above where we had the work station
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springlering62 wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »
Carpathian Mountains
Ivan Petriv
Craftwork from all areas of the Carpathians. Love love love, especially the Hutsul handwork. This wedding ensemble is handwoven, hand embroidered, and hand beaded. I’m teaching myself. I’ve done several runners and have a vyshyvanka (blouse) tucked away to start next.
The woodworking is also incredible, including this style of inlay, unique to the Hutsul.
Blankets woven out of roughly hand spun wool (no, photo is not out of focus-pattern looks like this):
But ohhhhh, the embroidery and beadwork! It just makes my heart sing!
Look at the hand crocheted gold lace on the cuff, and the drawn thread work at the collar.
@honey_honey_12 you caught me dreaming of a trip to the Carpathians this morning and kinda lit my fire lol.SabAteNine wrote: »@springlering62 @honey_honey_12 If you're ever in the area, make sure to visit Maramureș and Bukovina here in Romania as well! These motifs are part of the popular / traditional clothing in these areas. We also have a tradition of painting Easter Eggs with intricate models.
The last image is from the Merry Cemetery in Maramureș. Here's some more pictures of how the traditional houses, woodwork, garments and carpets look like: LINK
OH and the food and horinca (alcoholic beverage) are also amazing.
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SabAteNine wrote: »@springlering62 @honey_honey_12 If you're ever in the area, make sure to visit Maramureș and Bukovina here in Romania as well! These motifs are part of the popular / traditional clothing in these areas. We also have a tradition of painting Easter Eggs with intricate models.
The last image is from the Merry Cemetery in Maramureș. Here's some more pictures of how the traditional houses, woodwork, garments and carpets look like: LINK
OH and the food and horinca (alcoholic beverage) are also amazing.
Oh, the food!!! Agree! So fresh! “I’m sorry we have no milk this morning. The cow was in a bad mood”.
That Bessarabian rug by the young lady’s feet is to die for.
I’ve got a particular weakness for those.
I’ve been lucky enough to meet a master Pysanka artist in her home. She earned a medal from the government for her craft. Her home was like being inside a kaleidoscope- wall hangings, runners, embroidered clothes, cabinets and boxes full of eggs. We tried our (clumsy) hands at pysanky, and making cheese horses.3 -
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Motorsheen wrote: »
Ancestor of yours? 😂1 -
honey_honey_12 wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »
Ancestor of yours? 😂
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I think I’ve seen her on MFP asking about frown lines and extra skin around the boobs.2 -
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)3 -
Van Gogh - Irises
Irises is one of several paintings of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and one of a series of paintings he made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.5 -
I saw this one yesterday and fell in love with it. Her story is interesting, too, particularly that she’s notable, not for being a remarkably intelligent woman who ruled well in her husband’s stead while he was off fighting or ill, but because her husband never cheated on her in a day when noblemen kept honeys everywhere, and because she provided so many heirs, who survived to adulthood when the family was on its last dynastic leg
Eleanora of Toledo by Bronzino.
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Batumi!!!!! What a beautiful city and the food was amazing. (All of Georgia had outstanding food!!!) The food market there was sensory overload.
Our first experience with a pickpocket was under this statue. She was about nine. I literally had to pull her off my husband.
Border control gave us some problems continuing on to Ukraine, til someone noticed Georgia (USA) on our passports and then they couldn’t do enough for us. Lovely people.
Georgia was my favorite travel experience ever. I will definitely go back when travel is available again, if only to stuff my face with bread and cheese.
Georgians will literally give you the shirt off their backs. They are the kindest, most generous people I’ve ever met. Will ply you with food and drink til you can’t stand up and then give you some more.
A personal favorite piece of art from my own collection:
This is needle felted by an artist in Mestia. Mestia is famous for its many Svaneti (sp?) towers. As a dangerous border area in the Caucasus Mountains, families could retreat to their stone towers and pull up the ladders til danger had passed. It was sobering to think that our hosts had a tower over a thousand years old in their pasture and didn’t think anything about it.
The picture is the mountains, pink in the sun, with a tower and stone house.
Oh, @litha_ you made my day today!!!!!😘
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My favorite Art is my own Hand embroidery I started embroidering as a teenager then put it aside for quite a few years, I picked it back up in 2014 and stitch just about everyday. This is one of my Greenwoman pieces
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Motorsheen wrote: »
Long haired dachshund. He’s playing for snacks, not cash.2 -
springlering62 wrote: »
@springlering62 - Yes. Scotland is a place I’d like to visit one day, maybe have a canal boat trip and see this sculpture in person. At night seems like it would be more interesting. Have you seen it in person?
We saw it three years ago, and loved it. We thought it was epic. We timed it so we could see it in the sunshine, and then waited til twilight to see it change colors from the lights inside.
I thought the PR video was silly. Enough of the spouting flames. Show it slowly (and mesmerizingly) changing colors!
If you like odd, massive sculptures, there’s a famous one just up the road from me called Stone Mountain. Borglum, the same guy who later did Mount Rushmore, created it. Sadly, it’s a Confederate Memorial, so no idea what will happen to it. But as a sculpture, it is a colossal achievement - 3 acres in size, and larger than Rushmore. I think I remember as a kid hearing that several people could sit inside the ears.
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I like and enjoy all kinds of art, epic sculpture, urban street art, unique guerilla yarnbombs, fine arts, outsider art environments. If it invokes awe, questions, humor or humblest admiration, it interests me.
My daughter is a professional chalk artist. She spends days doing an elaborate, gorgeous piece, only to have cars drive on it or the fire department hose it off. I was horrified til she explained that it’s the ephemerality that appeals to her.
I read something the other day that one of the chalk pieces on the downs in southern England- the particularly well endowed male figure- is now tentatively being rethought as a medieval practical joke. I could totally see that. It reminds me of the time a bunch of male friends spent an hour in a stadium flipping seats so that when the crowd arrived for the event, they were greeted by the word BALLS in giant letters on the other side of the stadium.
This one only took her a couple of hours.
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That's her work? 😮
So realistic 😀
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Ophelia
Alexandre Cabanel1 -
Ophelia
Pierre-Auguste Cot1 -
Aphrodite
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