
Showing posts with label paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paris. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Ayah, Kakak & Monet

"Nymphaea" is the botanical name for a water lily. Monet grew white water lilies in the water garden he had installed in his property at Giverny in 1893. From the 1910s until he died in 1926, the garden and its pond in particular, became the artist's sole source of inspiration.
He said: "I have come back to things that are impossible to do: water with weeds waving in the depths. Apart from painting and gardening, I am good for nothing. My greatest masterpiece is my garden."
Eliminating the horizon and the sky, Monet focused on a small area of the pond, seen as a piece of nature, almost a close-up. No details stand out and the overall impression is one of a shapeless surface. The square format reinforces the neutrality of the composition. The lack of a frame of reference gives the fragment an infinite, limitless feeling.
Never was the artist's brushstroke so free, so detached from the description of forms. A close-up view of the canvas gives a feeling of total abstraction, because the brushstrokes are stronger than the identification of the plants or their reflections. The viewer has to make a constant visual and mental effort to piece together the landscape suggested in the painting. The unfinished borders accentuate this insistence on painting as a surface covered with paint, which was not lost on artists after the Second World War, particularly American painters exploring "abstract landscapes" and "lyrical abstraction."
Sudah bosan dan letih dihari-hari tua-nya, Monet senang hanya melayan kebun bunganya.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Pasar Lambak di Paris



Jadi dengan izin tuhan, semasa melawat Paris, aku tak lepaskan peluang untuk ke pasar lambak disana. Pendapat peribadi aku, pasar lambak ada adalah epitomi untuk merasa corak hidup masyarakat semasa. Dari pelbagai barang jualan, si pengembara dapat membaca citarasa penduduk tempatan.
Kalau di tanah air, tak sah pasar lambak kalau tak ada kuih seri muka atau ayam percik, di Paris kita dapat lihat pelbagai jenis keju dan roti di jual secara terbuka.




Saturday, March 29, 2008
Garam


Apa boleh buat, terkebil-kebil ajer la menelan air liuq.

Ambik secolek dua untuk merasa - PEH! Tak pernah tatsebud aku teruja dengan pelbagai jenis garam. Aku beli tiga packet, lima euro. Dah terbayang dalam kepala masa terbang balik ke rumah - ini garam kalau gaul dengan ayam, campak dalam oven mesti power...

Tapi tak sedikitpun melunturkan semangat aku untuk mencekik ayam panggang malam tu.

Yeay!

Monday, March 24, 2008
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