Austerlitz/Slavkov 2013

Austerlitz/Slavkov 2013, a set on Flickr.

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Reconstruction of battle

London photos

I was in London in September. It was great going there. London is beautiful city (it has some dark sides like a lot of dirt around Victoria Train Station but most of places are really good).

I came there to the Victoria Coach Station on Sunday at 6am. I had to wait till the Luggage Room will be open and store there my things. After I went to the city. It was 8 am, but still nobody was on the streets. I don't like crowds and many people, so I enjoyed it. I was surprised, people started appear almost at 10am and I was the promenade next to river. Many People were jogging. But my experience is, that London is very sleepy city on Sunday :-)  You can see my exact journey that day in my previous post.

Second time I came to London a week later. I went to the Hyde Park and ate there my lunch. After that I went directly to the Nacional Gallery and spend there whole day. Than I went to see Covent Garden Market. Thanks coincidence (I just walked where I wanted) I have discovered China Town. I was so much tired, but still I walked there almost hour and I loved it. China town is so different then rest of city despite it is just few street with chinese and japanese restaurants and shops.

On Monday I went to the Courtauld Gallery, then to the Tate Modern and finally to the British Museum. After I went again to the China Town. I had there dinner in Korean restaurant and that's all :-)

London, a set on Flickr.

Photos from my first visit of London
September 2011

London day I.

I was first time in London today.
Photos and story will come soon :-)

I was walking here: 
Show this map of London bigger.

Vienna and Albertina

It has been a while since I was in Vienna. I was looking forward this visit very much.

The main plan was going to the Albertina. It is highly recomended, because there is expositon of Michelangelo's drawings nad Piccaso's pictures now. The pictures was fascinating.

Picasso - Lobster and cat

First I went to the Picasso’s exhibition. I was surprised how many Picasso´s pictures I didn´t know. I looked with admiration his pictures, where he is showing thing from different angles. I love how he drew for example one eye from the front and second eye from the side. And more... for example the way how he deformed body of objects but you still can recognize what it is. Yeah, it was very interesting and even sometimes funny for me.

Also I remember one interesting thing. Picasso´s common object was dove on pictures. It is symbol of peace. But in the times when he was learning how to draw his father (I think) took a dove, killed it, pierced its wings with needles to the wall and said "Draw it how it fly!" to small Picasso. So this violent story is an origin of Picasso´s symbol of peace. 

Michelangelo - Half-Length Figure of Cleopatra 

Michelangelo was even more fascinating than Picasso but probably only for me. Because I love drawing so, I studied his way of making drawings all the time. I don't remember anything spicy from Michelangelo's life. Only I was quite surprised how most of his drawings of woman looked like a man. The muscles of body etc. And on the exhibition I discovered, that at least ones he used a male model for drawing of a woman. It was one of his Sybille - the old one. But when I considered, that he was a gay, this is no surprise. 

 William Kentridge - World Walking

In Albertino was also three other exhibitions. They were good. The most interesting was William Kendridge. He is audiovisual artist. I loved  most of his paintings. Especially that ones, what was made with pastels.

More pictures and infromation you can find here.

I also went fo a walk around old towncentrum of Vienna. Most of the time was quite cold and bad sunlight. So, it was not so good weather for making photos, but I made some: