Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Renaissance Men

Last week Dutch interior designer/DJ Gur-B was in town.  Normally he likes to check out designer vinyl toys and graphic design bookshops so I thought I'd show him some real drawings for a change.















We headed over to the British Museum to check out the Renaissance Drawings exhibition.  There were prime morsels on show by all the Ninja Turtles; Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo & Donatello but I was more intrigued by a statuesque transvestite who was eyeing up the chiselled torsos on show.  S/he looked like this:












After we'd looked at 100 pictures of pretty ladies with their heads cocked to one side we headed to the Prints & Drawings room where we donned white gloves & dug out some dusty old boxes of original Ronald Searle drawings which were much funnier.

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14 comments:

  1. bazza8:28 pm

    Hi Matt. I saw one of those Leonardo cartoons at the British Museum. I just didn't get the joke. Boom, boom!

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  2. gur-B12:07 am

    I haven't laughed this much in ages !
    The Cookie crisp outfit and pose are hilarious.

    On a serious note, I enjoyed the tour tremendously and it woke me up, out of digital and mental slumber feeling totally turtalised again.

    I will kick some shell and make some real drawings myself !


    Now,shall I go for the purple or pinkish coffee table...

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  3. Elliot11:32 am

    Hey Matt

    Good to meet up with you and to meet Gur-B.

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  4. Matthew Cruickshank1:18 pm

    Did Gur-b at any time eat chicken?

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  5. Matt Jones3:54 pm

    I remember eating some strange Greek pasta at a late hour with GurB & Elliot (above) but no chicken . . .

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  6. gur-B7:01 pm

    Hey Elliot, it was nice to meet you too, hope to meet you again in a less dopey state of mind & thanks for the Greek.

    (Thanks for letting me use your comment box Matt)

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  7. Heather Dixon4:20 am

    Your sketches blow my brains out. Fantastic!

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  8. Matt Jones12:20 pm

    Thanks Heather, I hope you're feeling better?

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  9. Ashley Boddy3:23 pm

    Was the s/he comparing chiseled torso?

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  10. Matt Jones4:28 pm

    That exhibition confused me-the drawings of women looked like men and the real women were actually men!
    Art history is a minefield, 2000 years of gender crossing . . .

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  11. stefan marjoram11:46 am

    Haha, sounds like a fun trip. Love the drawings. I had no idea you could rootle around in the museum's boxes.

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  12. Matt Jones4:49 pm

    Sure, you can request to look at anything. TateBritain have a similar 'study room'- you can dig out Turner's sketchbooks if you want!

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  13. Rosie12:34 pm

    I know who that...er...lady is. She was wearing pink?

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  14. Matt Jones5:33 pm

    Leopard print . . . maybe pink undies?

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