Spontaneous culture
Passing the Art Gallery on the way home from a spontaneous brunch at Cafe Rouge* yesterday, we decide to pop in and see the Miffy exhibition**. We ending up seeing all sorts of things, and having discussions about the sheer superfluity of a Victorian painting of a water nymph*** and whether the painter of the large Samson and Delilah scene had ever seen a naked woman's breasts****. We also try interacting with some of the Miffy exhibits, but find that we're probably too large to play dress-up. On the way out, after having raided the gift shop for Christmas presents***** we decide we can spare five minutes for a market research interview on whether we liked the experience. What did you find good about your visit today? I'm tempted to say: no one told us to stop touching the artworks, but caution prevails.
Incidentally, Manchester Art Gallery gift shop stocks a range of verging on the obscene household items shaped like little people. If you know anyone that likes that sort of thing.
I did well yesterday: I bought three christmas presents, all on budget and totally unexpectedly.
It is: 4.5 working days til I leave this job! Yay! 26 days to Greenbelt.
*Good toasties, too much vinegar on the poached eggs.
** I didn't specify high culture, now did I?
*** Remind me again of the difference between porn and art? There's just no call for that. It ain't even educational.
**** Conclusion: yes, but he wished they'd look more like how he painted them.
***** Forward-planning? Moi?
Incidentally, Manchester Art Gallery gift shop stocks a range of verging on the obscene household items shaped like little people. If you know anyone that likes that sort of thing.
I did well yesterday: I bought three christmas presents, all on budget and totally unexpectedly.
It is: 4.5 working days til I leave this job! Yay! 26 days to Greenbelt.
*Good toasties, too much vinegar on the poached eggs.
** I didn't specify high culture, now did I?
*** Remind me again of the difference between porn and art? There's just no call for that. It ain't even educational.
**** Conclusion: yes, but he wished they'd look more like how he painted them.
***** Forward-planning? Moi?
posted by Myn at 4:47 AM
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I went to the Miffy exhibition and enjoyed it. But am I the only person who doesn't remember there being so much text in the books, or it being written in such an awful rhyming style? 'Miffy's birthday' turns out to have pictures in it which are seared onto my brain - I'd forgotten that I'd seen them, but once I saw them again I remembered seeing them so many times. It was very wierd. I really loved seeing how the pictures had been made.
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