Everyday one learns something

    Everybody loves lists. “Worst 5 movies of the year”, “Best first date puddings”, “10 reasons to drink tequila”, etc... Quick, funny, and they last as long as your microwave noodles take to be cooked.

    On behalf of this so post-modern invention I made this superb list of art stuff. Among dozens of possibilities I will choose true facts and curiosities known by connoisseurs and fascinating for sympathizers. I hope it was delightful for everyone and the first of many.

Faraones, pirámides y un tipo muy gracioso / Pharaohs, pyramids and a funny chap

    Perdiendo un poco el tiempo en Youtube he descubierto unos documentales de la BBC dirigidos por el historiador de arte Alastair Sooke. Aunque ha realizado diferentes series de momento sólo he visto completamente la dedicada a Egipto. “Treasures of Ancient Egypt” es su título y aunque está en inglés es bastante entendible. Son 3 capítulos de apenas una hora de duración cada uno pero es más que un generoso recorrido por el arte egipcio desde las manifestaciones predinásticas hasta la conquista romana en el siglo primero a.C. Los documentales derrochan una calidad apabullante (tan apabullante como cara su realización, seguro).

Anamorphosis, the art of deception

    Taking a look at a National Gallery of London guide I ran into the oil painting "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein and remembered my shock when in class (a century ago, more or less) Antonio Calvo   Castellón revealed a hidden surprise in this double portrait:

The more I seek the more I find.

    A few weeks ago we were wandering by Weymouth Quay and suddenly we saw a massive building, on whose façade one may read “Brewers Quay”. That building was an old distillery reused for art and craft shops. Dozens of little shops occupied both floors, offering a motley route where there were machinery, products and workers before. You could find Victorian style furniture, 1980’s football cards, jewelry, books or clothes. Then we might say, a sale and purchase warehouse, so it was a good place to rescue hidden treasures.

Where there's art, there's Neo-classic

    During my last travel to Scotland I visited one of those warehouses concealed among bumpy roads and forests. Walking through racks filled up by antiquities, a pair of objects caught my attention. They were two pieces of pottery: a mug and a little plate, with a pale-cobalt blue tonality and matt finishing. I wouldn’t realize them if they hadn’t held those great classical reliefs.