And of a great British pub landlord, Juan from Málaga.
Portrait of the artist as a jam-jar
Posted: January 19th 2010 08:05. Last modified: January 19th 2010 08:06
Decadent graffiti art at nursery entrance in Carmelo, Barcelona
Posted: January 18th 2010 15:36. Last modified: January 18th 2010 15:45
The artist speaks.
Mysterious Spanish game
Posted: January 11th 2010 11:22. Last modified: February 5th 2010 19:51
What is the man doing? Why is step 4 missing?
Still life or road-kill?
Posted: October 20th 2009 17:21. Last modified: October 20th 2009 17:23
There’s an oddly proportioned hare in one of this autumn’s auctions in Barcelona.
Slashdotdot
Posted: May 11th 2007 16:17. Last modified: May 11th 2007 16:21
What is the connection (if any) between the symbol on this house in Sin, Huesca, and that of the DĂa supermarket chain?
(
Sin really does exist. Here’s the sign:
One would obviously like to live in it, at least for a while, but owners are reluctant to sell.
)
Pietre dure
Posted: April 25th 2007 15:02.
There’s some excellent decorative stonework in the posher parts of Barcelona’s Eixample, but the Italians are in a different league.
“When I arrived in Seseña there was just this guy with a donkey”
Posted: November 15th 2006 12:05. Last modified: November 15th 2006 12:10
Paco “El pocero”–in Wales he’d be called Jones the Drains–is Francisco Hernando, the 57-year-old illiterate building a €6B, 13,500-house development, Spain’s largest ever, in a village near Madrid, whether the mayor likes it or not, and he doesn’t. The mayor, Manuel Fuentes, is receiving police protection, and Alfredo Urdaci wants to know what happened to [...]
Sinful alien redheads: Roda-soques and Nathalie Borgé
Posted: May 27th 2004 17:14.
Recognising an urgent need, Barcelona’s excellent Institut Français has undertaken to explain love to the Catalans (translation Googlebotted for style, steam, and speed):
Ramos strikes again
Posted: May 26th 2004 14:04.
John Chappell writes that “Only [Rafael Ramos] could somehow establish a comparison between a 1930s realist painter and the Iraq war.” What, Barcelona’s leading illiterate plagiarist with an original idea? John might change his mind if he checked Jonathan Jones’ Guardian article, published last week. In fact, all that Ramos (search) adds to the sum [...]
Dirty dolls
Posted: April 1st 2004 00:28.
Apparently the fine children’s illustrator Honor Appleton (1879-1951) was not such a good girl after all:
(illustration for previous post)
Posted: February 26th 2004 18:46.
The scan below (100K) is of the front cover of Gil de Rusena’s El Memorialista Català, cited in the previous post. All I know of the artist, “Robert”, is that he worked for Salvador Bonavia and other publishers on a number of other books, including folklore collections. Bonavia’s old shop is just down the road [...]
Cock and bull
Posted: February 5th 2004 18:04. Last modified: May 31st 2009 09:15
I just don’t get it. While one bunch of nutters has finally managed to destroy Catalunya’s last Osborne bull for being too Spanish, another bunch of crazies is going round putting up things that look pretty damn Gallic to me:
OK, now here’s a challenge: discuss this solely with reference to the aesthetic merits of the [...]
The way of all busts
Posted: January 27th 2004 22:42. Last modified: March 14th 2005 18:50
Featuring Josep-LluĂs Carod-Rovira, Uncle Joe Stalin and the Singh brothers from Mohali.
spam art
Posted: January 17th 2004 11:38.
Tom Coates has ’shopped that top-10 spam meme, Unrelenting C*cks Destroy Innocent Pussies.
és tot una mentida (menys l’emoció humana, evidentment)
Posted: December 22nd 2003 10:50.
Aquesta foto d’en Marc, fet per un tub de cartró, és una imitació de Le faux miroir (1935) d’en Magritte, que possiblement estava pensant en la Porte fenêtre a Collioure (1914) d’en Matisse. Altre bon exemplar d’aquesta època és la Venus B (1933) de Kazimierz Podsadecki, i peces modernes que m’agraden inclouen aquesta foto anònima [...]
Dalí vs Turner (ii)
Posted: November 3rd 2003 12:15. Last modified: January 1st 2005 14:31
Naar aanleiding van een post over Dalí, vergeleek ik hem de andere dag met Turner. Nu blijkt dat dhr Snor echt een hekel had aan mijn landgenoot:
Een totale ramp, het hoogtepunt van romantische sentimentaliteit, en het tastbare bewijs dat het onmogelijk is om tegelijkertijd Engelsman en grote schilder te zijn.
Wat ik niet snap is hoe [...]
catalaanse grottenkunst
Posted: November 1st 2003 22:05.
Veel prehistorische Catalaanse grottenkunst vertoont onmiskenbare Franse invloeden. Wat echter erg boeiend is aan dit slijmerige voorbeeld is dat het, al bewegend, precies voorspelt hoe lang het gaat duren voordat links weer aan de macht komt bij de noorderburen.
Gezien tijdens deze wandeling. Koop Slower Than a Snail (Hello Math Reader-Level 2):
treinen: dalí vs turner
Posted: September 29th 2003 09:00.
Toen ik in Londen werkte, nam ik af en toe een paar uurtjes vrij onder het smoesje van een vergadering met partners in Covent Garden. En dan kon ik mooi naar het National Gallery (nog steeds gratis) en Turner. En die kon nou echt een treintje schilderen.
benvinguts a dalí central
Posted: September 29th 2003 08:36.
Josep M Huertas en la Vanguardia d’ahir:
Quince años después de su muerte, el pintor Salvador Dalí entrará definitivamente en el nomenclátor de Barcelona. No será ni en la plaza Nova ni en la calle Duc de la Victòria, nombres que se habían barajado en distintos momentos. El alcalde Joan Clos ha aprobado que el nombre [...]
My 5% bookstore - new stuff
Spanish history
- EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€ - LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€ - CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, MÂŞ ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€
Modern Spanish fiction
- EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€ - LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€ - DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€
Spanish classics
- TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€ - LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€ - INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€
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- Interactive electronics/dance performance
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- New Abramovich yacht pictures
- Some more sun goddesses
- Traductor castellano-andaluz
- Dogs’ bollocks
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- How regional language policy in Spain is pissing off foreign investors
- Sagrada Familia mural
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