If you enter the Art Gallery of South Australia, you will find many items, some of which may well have been found by archaeologists, as well as stuff by contemporary artists. I visited last week before the whole hospital/appendix* debacle and will now present some photos.
Marble statue of Artemis c. 180CE. How they are still quite sure it’s her, I do wish to know.Top: Vases from Italy ranging from 500-300BCE. Below: Earthenware by Thomas Allen, 1831-1915.Left: Virgin and Child, 1888. Here, Baby Jesus is T-Posing in this very beautiful artwork by William Adolphe Bouguereau. Right: The Coronation of the Virgin with Saints Luke, Dominic, and John the Evangelist c. 1580 by Bartolomeo Passerotti.ZzzZzzI didn’t get the artist for this one – oops. But I strongly relate to this wooden sculpture on a slow day in an office.Sculptures showing acupuncture to the extreme.Yayoi Kusama, a featured artist, has thoughts to express and art to truly ward off the tryptophobic.
There are all kinds of fantastic, like this upside down tree…
And a framed image of someone having written pi to one million digits… (I wonder if the figure has been cross checked?)
Artist: James Angus 2005
The photo reel on my phone seems to go in for a while, so here are just a couple of favourites.
An octopus in a shell… interesting. Goldilocks wouldn’t have broken this one. Futuristic surrealismStunning nature paintings from the late 1880s…Abstract Japanese ceramic sculptures.This is ceramic!Most expensive textbook ever, probably (seriously, gold plated).
Here is a link to the directory of all the art in the galleries if you want to have a look.
A fitting thought:
What’s your favourite kind of art? Do you like art from a particular time period?
*Brief health update after the page break, for the non-squeamish and interested. TLDR; I am home and fine. Thank you for the kind wishes! 🌸
So glad you are home and feeling better! I’m partial to figurative 3D work but I also enjoy abstract 3D pieces (being a ceramic artist myself). That said I love most paintings and drawings – especially the impressionists!
I hope it finds a decent home somewhere, probably in a glass container, where it can help educate lots of future surgeons!
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That would be nice! I hope so too!
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So glad you are home and feeling better! I’m partial to figurative 3D work but I also enjoy abstract 3D pieces (being a ceramic artist myself). That said I love most paintings and drawings – especially the impressionists!
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3D art feels more “real” doesn’t it? I really like the sense of warmth that ceramic art seems to have.
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I’m more of a Renaissance type, but I appreciate modern here and there.
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I’m an impressionist lover. Looks like an interesting museum you have down there!
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There’s something so dreamlike about Impressionism. It is indeed! I believe they change it around a lot.
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