Welcome to Litsy!

This was an incredible book, but a total sausage fest.

It gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for being an inspiring, colourful, accessible, engaging volume, and for giving me a grounding in art knowledge that I didn't think possible from one book.

Art is discussed from a Eurocentric position, only ONE female artist is featured and some of the language is culturally insensitive to the modern ear, but this remains an outstanding work.

Thirsty for more now!

Educating ourselves on the history of art.

Pickles says that whilst appreciating the vitality of Rubens' work, she finds it a bit grainy and aesthetically prefers the softness in the portraiture of Raphael...

Just kidding. She's a philistine.

#picklescat #catsoflitsy

Trying to read about the history of art when a wild Circlefloof appeared 😐

#picklescat #catsoflitsy

I'm getting a bit of a whistle-shop tour of the history of architecture with The Story of Art.

Gombrich explains things in a simplified, narrative way that makes it easy to understand. I'm hoping this will help me when I go back to the more complicated books on architecture that I was struggling to digest.

I'm looking forward to getting to the paintings though.

Picasso deep dive 😂🎨🖼️🖌️ #nerd

In the news today https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/feb/06/picassos-barcelona-footsteps-of-t...

#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD PEEPS 🎨

@TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo

And here's my Bookspin board for Feb.

Feb always flies past so I'm not expecting a Bingo (I was only one off last month!) Still, there are a few lining up nicely...

3 ⭐This book is an ode to Isamu, not a biography. If one reads this story, as a story, it is quite nice. It is about a child‘s view of wonder. If one is reading it as a biography about the artist Isamu, one will be highly disappointed. As there is very little, almost nothing about the artist. This is all about how the artist viewed life. It‘s an interesting read, but not one that readers would gravitate to over and over again.

Yesterday‘s book swap finds on the way home from yoga and ballet. There were more but I couldn‘t carry them so I am going back today after my ballet, stretch and aerial class with an ex cirque du Soleil dancer but first a breakfast of pancakes cooked by Stew and a bath. I am always on the look out for a Michelle Bridges chickpea curry recipe that my sister made me once that was absolutely delicious hence 2 of her cookbooks are in this pile.

RESTOCK❗

We have replenished our collection of books centered around the Polish-born sculptor, writer, graphic artist, and heretic Stanislav Szukalski.
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https://underworldamusements.com/collections/books/stanslav-szukalski