July 10, 2007
Visiting a Couple of Exhibitions
Last Sunday (8th July), árka and I visited a couple of nice exhibitions. The first was the Dalí Exhibition (not much info on this page, aside from a photograph of the man himself, prices, location and opening times), which contained a number of fascinating pieces, my particular favourite being ‘Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln‘ (or ‘Pixellated President’ as I like to remember it). If you get the chance, it’s well worth taking a look.
The second exhibition (and it’s just upstairs from Dalí’s) features the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha’s work. If you don’t know him, there’s every chance that you may have seen some of his work in late 19th/early 20th century Art Nouveau art, in particular, posters featuring women in flowing dresses surrounded by flowers and trees. It’s interesting to note that his work also appears on old Czechoslovakian bank notes, postage stamps and many other documents just after World War I. This is wonderful stuff, and you can see it’s influence crop up in advertising through the 20th century. Again, this exhibition is definitely worth a visit.
After taking a look at these, we wandered past the famous Astronomical Clock (or ‘Orloj’) to a free sports photography exhibition: Sport Foto 2007. This is a collection of pictures from some of the Czech photography greats through the years - it’s not HUGE, but it’s nice to look around (and is free! :-))
Finally, before lunch, we decided to do the tourist-y thing, and climbed to the top of the Old Town Hall Tower. You get a wonderful view of the Old Town Square and the Old Town itself, and árka took a number of pictures (a couple of which can be seen on her Výstavy blog entry, but we may put the others online at some point).
