Today is the birthday of Diego Velazquez, iconic baroque Spanish painter. Why am I blogging about him? Because my brother showed me two paintings of his once, and I’ve never forgotten them. He is a craftster of the supreme kind. Above is Vieja Friendo Huevos (An Old Woman Frying Eggs), below is Las Meninas (The Maids Of Honor).
Vieja’s colors matches my blog’s. Eyeluvit.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:25 am
the old woman frying eggs is beautiful! love that woven bag hung on the wall.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I like the Las Minas painting. Those dresses are just beautiful!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Odette
- How funny, I didn’t even see the woven bag. Goes to show how differently we all perceive things.
Gracey
- I know, I kind of half wish I had dresses like those.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am
i like the way that he uses light and dark; the way he uses light colors to draw your eyes to details and how the dark sort of blurs the periphery. naks. seryus. hahaha! they’re really nice. kind of reminds me of luna. whatchutink?
June 11th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Caryn
But don’t take my word for it, the last time I saw the Spoliarium, I was 11 years old. 
- Now that you mention it, it DOES remind me of Luna. All those nice, dark corners.