The Museo Romantico, an 85-year-old, negligible and eclectic museum devoted to the depiction of life in Madrid during the 19th century, and located at the edge of the trendy Chueca neighborhood, closed for refurbishment in 2001 and stayed closed until Dec. 3, when it reopened as the rebranded Museo del Romanticismo (Calle San Mateo 13; 34-91-448-1045; museoromanticismo.mcu.es).
For many Madrileños like Mr. Mateos, the name exchange — from Romantic Museum to Museum of Romanticism — had gone unnoticed. It was as if a dear friend who went away without a satisfactory goodbye has returned. They eagerly turned up over the opening weekend to step back in time once again to the graciously gilded, tufted, tasseled and embroidered kingdom that awaited inside.
In line with Mr. Mateos was his friend José Luis Iglesias, who got to the core of the museum’s plead: “It’s different from other museums where they just hang pictures on a wall. Here they create a complete surroundings.” With nearly 1,400 objects ranging from grand pianos and wall-size oil paintings to diamond-studded stickpins and toy soldiers tucked into 26 rooms of an select neo-Classical palace, that “complete environment” is often summed up in Spanish with the word bombonera — a box of sweets.
How many people out there feel paintings are still important?
I, for example. I love to paint and enjoy their beauty, although it does push me when I see what kind of art as (by critics) to be good in those days. I think the world has the art gone his own ass.
CelticSaint | Jun 24, 2006
What should I apply on my paintings on wood to prevent fungus?
Dec 27, 2005 by LG | Posted in Painting
I have a series of acrylic and oil paintings on wood. Now there is a fungus growing on them. I have them out almost every day. Can you recommend something to save the application on their files?
* Please note that I have already been completed, the images so I'm not here looking for priming instructions.
You use a permanent paint for painting seal (varnish protects the surface). A word of caution, however, make sure you lead with your painting as soon as possible of the paint on top You can not redo your image is no longer satisfied. Furthermore, acrylic and oil paints a DIFFERENT set, you can not have the same paint for acrylic and oil paintings.
In response to another answer, I would not have the paint on the back to prevent the wood from breathing, because you will probably also the case of the fungal spores that cause in the shape and color of the fungus to grow from the inside out (and that would permanently damage paintings, since you do not wipe after sealing the wood with paint)
Instead, try this additional method: To save your images in a clean and dry environment (or in the garage is not the best place to put it). Fungus grows only in wet environments.Either you put the image in a humid place, or the wood or the paint itself is wet. If the wood you use is pretty thick, you can try to dry it with sunlight, with the base upwards (Do not), the painted side of direct sunlight. A word of caution, make sure to see the painting as it dries (you want to) they observe. There is not, if the wood is thick enough to dry it with sunlight, your paingting cause the buckle to the surface. Therefore, you must check your pictures every time to time, so that the drying process, if not the slightest sign of buckling to begin today to stop.Hope that helps.
ram | Jan 23, 2006
Big Cat News: Tiger paintings reflect ethnic cultures
In South Korea, tigers are elements that are very attentive to humans and are usually represented high-flying, or a person. Are in the nature of painting "Magpies and Tigers", down two magpies in a tree shooting allegedly in conversation with a tiger. The tiger in the painting is funny and endearing, and looks more like a cat than a tiger. Tigers in the painting in South Korea is a weight in the convenience of the realm of metaphysics crucial spark. Japan had no tigers in the old days, and the Tigers in Japanese paintings are very individual and not like China is not like in Korea.The Japanese painting called "The Tiger coming-out of a Bamboo Grove", a bamboo forest is the breeding of tigers relied on a lot of pictures from Korea, the pine trees used mainly as a backdrop. After the Meiji reform, tiger in Japanese paintings were all full of animal and airless. Tigers in Japanese painting, see the individuality and the end of Bushido available.
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