mosquitoes

I go for a stroll when I get tired of reading books or doing tasks. It’s really clear hot day today, as soon as I’ve started to walk outside, I got sweats. I strolled through the residential area, then I headed the heights, with an ipod. There’s a shrine on the heights, but I didn’t [...]

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local museum

The Monet’s exhibition at the National Art Center, in Roppongi, will soon finish at 2 July. The exhibition has been still very crowded, I guess. When I visit there before, it was so crowded that I couldn’t see the pieces quietly.
In addition to this center, lots of big, main museums and exhibitions concentrate in Tokyo. [...]

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bought 2 year Flickr pro account

The talk about the digital camera reminded me that I’d got an email from Flickr, that said “your Flickr PRO account will expire on: Sunday July1″. So I purchased 2 more year pro account. But I’ve not been uploading so much, indeed I’ve not taken a number of photos recently. The buying an account might [...]

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thanx Ricoh

One of the few cameras I have is Ricoh’s GR Digital, which I bring out almost always, and photos on this blog often have been taken with it. But the other day, I found there was a something wrong with the camera. A black spot like a stain had come on pictures taken with it. [...]

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Cirque Du Freak

Cirque Du Freak written by Drren Shan is a book I’ve borrowed from my friend 2 or 3 days ago. Then I’m reading it. I’ve never heard both the title and the auther, but the book seems to be famous and popular in the world. It was praised by the auther of Harry Potter, I [...]

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no rain

Normally, it rains a lot in this season, but this year, it may be a little strange. It doesn’t rain at all, and the high temperature is continuing like a midsummer, these days. And today was also too hot to annoy me, disturbing doing my task. If we couldn’t get a rain for long, it [...]

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being born paiting

Masato Kobayashi is one of the most significant painters in Japan. His solo exhibition had been held at Miyagi Museum, 2000, when I was a high school student. I hadn’t known well what he was doing in those days, but I visited the exhibition, perhaps I merely wanted to see paintings.
In this exhibition, What most [...]

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links to art

I’d like to point you to some useful websites, even though I haven’t used enough because of a lack of English ability. I’ll add to the list when I find some more.
Search -artists, artworks
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
CGFA
The Web Gallery of Art
Magazines
October
artnet
Art Asia Pacific　
The Art Newspaper
Words
ArtLex
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The Metropolitan Museum [...]

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veil painting

Morris Louis, who is well-known for his “Veil” paintings, is one of abstract expressionist painters. Louis developed the color field painting by his technique. He poured extremely diluted paints over an unprimed canvas. In this technique, brush strokes were removed, and also, any concrete figures were eliminated. The layers of paint saked and united into [...]

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to a library

I’m not sure when it have started, a library I go frequency have changed its open hours into till 7pm on weekday. I think it’s right for people who work. They can drop in the library to borrow or return books on their way home. And students also can study much more.
This all afternoon, I’ve [...]

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