Art Gallery of SA

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.

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Top: Vases from Italy ranging from 500-300BCE. Below: Earthenware by Thomas Allen, 1831-1915.

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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.

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I 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 surrealism

Stunning 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?

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*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! 🌸

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