Friday 27 July 2007

Van Gogh exposition

Yesterday, we went to an exposition in Thyssen Museum (Madrid) in which is exposed the pictures of Van Gogh done in his last years.

Vincent van Gogh was born near Brabant, the son of a minister. In 1869, he got a position at the art dealers, Goupil and Co. in The Hague, through his uncle, and worked with them until he was dismissed from the London office in 1873. He worked as a schoolmaster in England (1876), before training for the ministry at Amsterdam University (1877). After he failed to get a post in the Church, he went to live as an independent missionary among the Borinage miners.

I like pictures of Van Gogh, but I consider his pictures aren't very difficult (other persons think of this form...), but well, they are very decorative.

Monday 9 July 2007

My last trip to Venezia

A week ago I came back to Madrid from Venice, it was a very beautiful trip, I saw a lot of monuments, pieces of art, etc etc, Venice is an awesome city, with its canals, and its boats and gondolas. I was in Padova and in Ferrara too, this last one I liked more than Padova.
In Ferrara we was going cycling around the city and its wall, it was a great experience. Well, like a picture is worth a thousand words. Here it goes some of theirs.

  • Venice: the most important city in my trip, here you can see a gondola in one of the famous canals of Venice.

And the most importan monument of Venice is "St. Marco", with "St. Marco square" and the "Cathedral of St. Marco", you can see one picture of the cathedral.

Inside the city is forbidden to drive cars, but you can go in bycicle or even in motocycle (but it isn't normal), the most people goes walking (on by gondola or boat). Sometimes to go to other streets is neccesary to cross the canals, and the only possibility is using the bridges which connect different parts of Venice crossed by a canal. The most important bridge in Venice is the bridge of Rialto, you can see this bridge in this picture.

And finally I put other pictures about Venice which I took that day, the first is another famous bridge in Venice, the Bridge of the sighs, in this bridge the people who is in love, if they kiss them their love remain forever,

but the story of this bridge is totally different, this bridge were the last oportunity to see the world outside the jail, when the prisoners were going to killed, they crossed this bridge and that momment was the last one to watch the world... for that, they sigh because in few momments they were going to be dead. Other pictures of thes days are the Rialto Bridge and the Cathedral of St. Marco, they both in the night (they are more beautiful than by the day).
  • Padova: The next day we went to Padova, this is a monument in Padova,

we pass all day in this city and we saw all, the best was the park, I liked this day, but it was better the next day.
  • Ferrara: Awesome town, I liked very much, first we saw the castle, and we walked throw its passages, rooms and roofs, it was fantastic!!!

and then we were going to have lunch and then we rented bycicles and we were going to see all the city and its wall. More things we did, by it was necessary a lot of pages to tell everything.

By the way, the food it was great, and taking in consideration that I don't like so much pasta.

Friday 6 July 2007

Flat Wars -- Episode I

It's here!!!, maybe the best video have you ever seen (after "Callejeros -- Ritos Satánicos").


I hope you like it, and why not remember the video of Callejeros. Click here!!!