Tuesday, August 31, 2010 A
"Two Intuitive Drawings"
6:08am


Slowly emerging from underneath the sinus headache that has plagued me these past several days, this is a drawing I did earlier, but did not scan...


(This one drawn this morning) - Not touching that hot potato!

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 B
"Nineteenth Dynasty Egyptian at Art Institute"
7:41pm


Fragment of a Relief Showing Neferhotep
Egyptian, New Kingdom, early Dynasty 19 I(c. 1279-1199 BCE)
Limestone with pigment
Culver Fund, 1924.579
(From info card)
"The man portrayed here, named Neferhotep, raises his hand in adoration of a god. He wears a white, closely pleated, linean garment and a wig made of small braids."

The Metropolitan museum has a statue of Yuny, from the 19th Dynasty, who is dressed in a similar fashion.

Both Yuny and Neferhotep had positions of leadership, Yuny as "overseer of Sekhmet's lay-priests", while "Neferhotep was a foreman of the workers who built the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes."

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
"The Releasing"
9:59pm


Variation for 5x7 inch format...

Friday, September 3, 2010 A
"ROUND (Photo Friday Theme)"
7:14am

 

 
ROUND light at Chicago's Art Institute, which I visited
this summer.) (More Photo Friday theme photos are under this link.)


Friday, September 3, 2010 B
"Shiva and his Round Ring O'Fire"
7:48pm


Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
India, Tamil Nadu, Chola period, c. 10th/11th century
Bronze, 69.3 x 61.8 x 24.1 cm (27 1/4 x 24 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Fund, 1965.1130


Detail of Shiva...

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