Stunning Beauty

I have seen Rembrandt in major museums but not so many portraits ~ 50~ in one exhibit. His "oeuvre" ( they used the French at the museum ....work) is mesmerizing to stare at. The lace, the wrinkles, the hair, the cloaks, the pink and flesh colors in the faces with the noses even shining a bit, standing behind docents to catch more information ~~ I liked just looking myself and seeing the portraits. The most famous were two of his self-portraits:

Lucretia

( photo  below is not  mine but a similar one on my phone)

I did find a glass cased full of copper etchings of Rembrandt's in the free part of the museum.
I would love to be going to the Morgan Library in NYC
for their exhibit of Rembrandt's world. 

How about this: went later in the afternoon to another museum to see an exhibit on "Genghis Kahn" ~~ my. 
Good and we will be studying him in March.


How about this: ended with one gallery in a Gallery Crawl that a friend had a few paintings being exhibited. Fun to talk to artists , here are a couple you will like:


Shannon Newby

I Pledge | Shannon Newby  | cut book, encaustic on wood

 12 x 12 x 3" | 2009

( lots of book art) 


Phaedra Taylor

Bound and Waiting  |  Phaedra Taylor   

encaustic, paper, string, oil paint on wood | 12 x 16" | 2011

Hannah Costner

 and my friend Anna who loves color and Van Gogh and Rilke and the Lord.........

To Rilke

I was energized coming home after all of that!
Today I am  taking down the Christmas tree (Ephiphany is over) AND reading this book which is very, very good...... a blog to come: