Museum Trip: De Pont & Audax Textielmuseum - Part I

Today I went to two museums, De Pont (museum of contemporary art), and the Audax Textielmuseum (textile museum), both in Tilburg, the Netherlands. My mum went with me and my dad visited a friend of his while we were at the museum. Afterwards we went for a drink, went shopping and had dinner too. I only got home a while ago. The actual plan was to visit the Hermitage Amsterdam, for an exhibition about the Russian Court, but because of the weather (and some bad reviews and long lines at the entrance) we decided against going and "just went somewhere else". I was actually going to drag my boyfriend along to Tilburg tomorrow. Now we're going to the movies (Avatar in 3D!). :)
Anyway, I had visited both museums once before, at the start of September this year, but because of two temporary exhibitons (and just for the sake of visiting museums more regularely) I wanted to visit both, again.

De Pont, museum for Contemporary Art:
I wanted to go to De Pont again because of an exhibition about Bill Viola. He is well known for his video art. Because we were at the museum anyway, we first had a look at the permanent collection.
I'll soon add some photographs and information about the art that caught my eye (beware, I love most art and even more when I get to know some more information about it).

Some of the pictures are taken from an angle, to avoid a distracting reflection.

Jeff Wall
1993
Diagonal Composition
Cibachrome transparency in aluminium display case


Thierry De Cordier
1993
H.H.
Oil and enamel on canvas


Kees De Goede
1997-1998
Pulse 'Stilte'
Charcoal, crayon on paper


Naoya Hatakeyama
2001
Slow Glass
Photoseries
C-print on aluminium


Bernard Frize
2002
Idoine
Acrylic paint, resin on canvas


Wolfgang Laib
1992
Wachsraum
Beeswax, wooden construction

Even though I tend to be a little claustrophobic, this space didn't scare me as much as I thought it might have. And do I ever love the smell of beeswax...


Raoul De Keizer
1980
Één van zeven voor Jeanne, nr. 1
Oil on Canvas


Anton Henning
2008
Interior no. 392
Oil on canvas


Anton Henning
2001
Interior no. 93
Oil on canvas


Anton Henning
2003
Interior no. 193
Oil on canvas


Anton Henning
1998
Interior no. 15
Oil on canvas


Katharine Grosse
2006
Untitled
Acrylic paint on canvas


Marlene Dumas
1985
The Last Supper
Oil on canvas


Naoya Hatakeyama
2002-2004
River Series/Shadow
Light jet print on plastic


Robert Zandvliet
1995
Untitled
Egg tempera on linen


Marc Mulders
1995
Everzwijn II
Oil paint on linen


Bill Viola
The Reflecting Pool
Videostill


The Lovers
2005
Videostill

Museum Trips

When starting this blog I decided not only to show you some of my work, but also to tell about the museums I visited, or post about things that inspire me, that interest me.
Now, I've only yet done the former, and not yet the latter. This will change.
Not only will I post about the museums I visit from now on, but I'm also planning to post a short blog entry about the museums I've visited in the past (the last two years I think). Just so you know.

New Last.fm pictures and (old) avatars.

I was editing my Last.Fm profile yesterday, when I realised I wanted something new for the pictures. So I took some photographs and edited them for this. I used photoshop CS3 and my tablet.

These are all from photographs I took myself.

Old pictures:

New pictures:

Transparency, how I love thee.

I'm not satisfied with the "blog"/torn paper yet. The letters look fake even though I actually wrote it on paper before taking a picture. The brown/burn/smoke marks aren't all that bad I think, I did those in photoshop. Still it looks too "made" to me.

Also, I changed my old avatar to a newer one, although that one has become old too.

Old:

or

Less old:

Yes, these are both my own eye :)

Header 02

I present to you, the new header.

I like it. Very much so.

I do realise it's a bit big, but then again, bigger is better, right? :P I'll see to it the next header won't be even bigger.

Oh, this is from my series of winter photographs I was telling you about in a different post. You'll find out more about the pictures soon.

Edit: I posted the Winter Garden pictures, but since that message is antedated it doesn't show up above this post, but somewhere below (read: the third message previous to this one). For you lazy people, here's a link.

New photograph of Me.

Like the title says.
I rather liked the previous one, but since I've had my hair dyed red for the first time two months ago, I thought I should change my picture.

The picture was edited only a little, preventing my hair to look orange instead of it's real colour: bright red. My webcam simply cannot handle the colour, haha.

Old picture:

New picture:

Edit 2010-01-05: Look! Pretty frames :)

Blog Header 01

I finally editted the Header for my school blog to a header for this blog, hooray. The picture is from my Autumn Walk. Also, I edited the lay-out colours to match with the header.

But I think I will soon be making another one, as I made some lovely photographs last week.

I seem to be sketching and drawing and doing anything creative a lot less than I was hoping for. Oh well.