Today we will go to the New Orleans Museum of Art to see the "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero Exhibit."
Fernando Botero (born 1932) is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman who highlights the comedy of human life-moving or wry, baroque in expression, sometimes with a mocking observation, sometimes with a deep, elementary emotion. Working in a broad range of media, Botero has created a world of his own, at once accessible and enigmatic, with a particular blend of violence and beauty. Fernando Botero has spent most of his years as an artist away from his native country, Colombia, but his art has maintained an uninterrupted link to Latin America.
In the afternoon at the museum, a Panamanian dance group will perform traditional dances. As I enjoy the dancers, I'll be thinking of Padre Mickey and the Lovely Mona.
Panama Without Borders Folkloric Dance Group, comprised of Panamanians residing on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is dedicated to preserving, presenting, and promoting Panamanian culture through traditions, music and dances.
Hasta luego!
What a great day you've planned...full of color and spirit...drive carefully and come home safe and sound AND even more inspired (it may not be possible as you're quite inspiring already)...thanks for the pictures.
ReplyDeleteOh, how cool. What a good day you have planned. It all sounds beautiful. Have a great time!
ReplyDeleteHave a great time. And don't do anything I wouldn't... a'course that leaves it pretty open. Viva Panama!
ReplyDeleteYou know, that's how the Lovely Mona and I dress almost every day, 'cept Sundays.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day.
Hope you had and/or are having a wonderful day today!
ReplyDeleteI nominated you for an award, btw. Sorry. :)
Oh Grandmere!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful day!! I am sure you will be invited to dance with all those lovely dancing persons, and you must not outdo them! And if you must flash your tattoo --do it with all the dignity you possess!
many blessings!
Aren't there sufficient fat broads in the Delta, without you're going to an exhibition of them? Where Botero's concerned, you've lost me. The dance group looks fun, tho'. Where do you find the energy to do all this stuff?
ReplyDeleteOh dear. The Panamanian dancers were nowhere to be found. The date in the email said Aug. 17, but in my wishful thinking, I read it as Aug. 14. Sometimes I see what I want to see, rather than what is actually there. I was quite disappointed, to say the least. I blame it all on Padre Mickey. He wears those clothes every day, and he lives in Panama, doesn't he? Who else can I blame?
ReplyDeleteAs for the exhibit, it was, shall we say, arresting, worth a visit. But that's the subject for a post.
Please say a prayer for my daughter's youngest son. While we were visiting at their house after our museum visit, he fell in an ant pile and was bitten many times, possibly 100 bites. They were not fire ants, thanks be to God. When we left, my daughter was on her way to the after-hours clinic with him.
Oh Grandmere --your grandson is and will be in my prayers. OUCH!
ReplyDeleteAnd I hope you return to see the dancers.
Margaret, not this Sunday. It's the Sunday school kick-off at church, which includes a picnic.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the prayers. Poor William.
this sounds like a great event! hope you had fun!
ReplyDeleteLapin, sometimes it's good to be challenged and unsettled by art.
ReplyDeleteGrandpère was way ahead of me going through the exhibit, and I knew when I found him at the end, he would say that he didn't like Botero's work.
I think Botero is fun, even though I certainly don't want to look like one of his models. I saw one of his statues recently at the park where the Ravinia music festival is held.
ReplyDeleteSorry you missed the dancers.
William!
ReplyDeleteThis is just one of life's little catastrophes. It's not the end of the world (as usual).
Ouch, ouch, ouch.
Prayers for William. What a miserable thing to happen. Fortunately, a passing one.
ReplyDeleteGlad you could catch the Botero exhibit. None of us wants to look like his subjects but they are arresting paintings. I find them tinged with great melancholy and always a lurking element of the sinister, but they are fascinating works. Found myself liking the statues quite a bit.
Thanks for the prayers for William. I haven't heard anything yet today, but the doctor said that it was a very good thing that my daughter took him in, because that many bites in the neck and head area can be dangerous. His ear was already quite swollen.
ReplyDeletePaul, I found Botero's drawings of displaced persons the most affecting of all. I liked the sculptures, too. The heavy influence of the ancient art of Central and South America is obvious in the statues.