After being for 24 hours far away from a computer (and consequently far away from Facebook, Flickr, Blogger and correlated technologies) I decided to stop numbering my posts. This was just the trigger. The main reason: time flies when you tell it.
I have the honor of being into the most complete painting museums in this country. I won't be telling the name on the blog because I want to avoid curious people coming here.
What I want to register is the much you can learn from those 16th century guys, how they played with light and lighting. I think all the concepts we learn nowadays have been started by that time.
I remember that ten years ago was very hard to me to understand lighting on paintings, but now, after so much reading, I must confess I can look and understand a bit. The messages are obvious very subjective. While listening to the audio guide, I would hear the guy says something like "erotic" over an image that for me had only to do with the beauty of color... and who will know it? The painter is already dead!
Rembrandt was also a mystery to me. On my opinion, he has made two self-portraits: this one and also this one. But common knowledge defends that subjects were two different guys. For me not...
I came back from this visit with a lot of ideas and also many many images. Some of them beautiful!
The composition on this post has noting to do with the paintings but with the colors. Notice the red on the foreground against the green on the background. That is what I wanted to show! This picture has survived the scrutiny of the young security guy that made me erase all my pictures of this wall. This one was a bit dark, he told me I could keep it and back home I manage to recover the dark pixels :)
Funny how people get upset with the size of your camera. There were other people, with portable and phone cameras into the room, but they got upset with my 5D. Oh my... subject to another post!
I like it.
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