Notable Paintings at the Picasso Museum

Some notable paintings at the Museu Picasso (absolutely no photos are allowed) - all of these are by Picasso except the two by Gris:

1) Science and Charity, 1897 (Notice the woman's right hand is green near the bed - but left hand is white closer to her face which is also white. Perhaps this signifies the change from health to sickness.)

2) Painter Working, 1965

3) Bottle Anis del Mono, 1915 (even the signature is a work of art on this one)

4) Alcova Dues Habitacions

5) Balco Tancat

6) Cafe 4 Gats

7) Els Colomins

8) Las Meninas (Conjunt), 1957 (this one is very interesting as it's Picasso's interpretation of Velazquez's Las Meninas, 1656)

And a couple of ceramics:

9) Plata Espanola Escena de Cursa Amb Peix

10) Plat Arrodonit Mascara Negra

And finally a couple by Juan Gris (They're known as "visual rhymes"):

11) Guitar and Fruit Bowl, 1926

12) Pierrot, 1919

-Krip

Mompou's Notable Paintings

An exhibition of paintings by Josep Mompou is running at La Pedrera now through 14 June 2009. Some notable paintings:

1) Instrumentos Musicales
2) Dancing
3) Plaza de Catalunya
4) Water view out door (not sure of exact name!)

-Krip

"My Aircraft"...check..."Your Aircraft"

Earlier I blogged about captain Sully's heroism in safely bringing down flight 1549 on the water.

CBS' News 60 Minutes last night aired an interview with Sully. You can catch it here.

Sully knew what he had to do and focused on the job at hand. He took control of the aircraft. He then went through standard operating procedure for that kind of incident. Next he considered options of landing at various nearby airports including receiving clearance for such. Then he made the call to ditch into the Hudson. He knew exactly the various conditions under which he must hit the water to make a successful landing and executed that plan.

Fast thinking. Controlled thinking. Calm thinking. Right thinking.

A lesson for all of us. At any time we may be called upon (by virtue of circumstance) to help with an emergency. Sully, well done, you're a god.

-Krip