artsy fartsy
Today I worked a half a day in the kitchen. 5 hours time spent putting out breakfast; replenishing the salad bar; bringing in breakfast/clean-up; making beef sloppy joes; making vegetarian black bean Faision; making Dijon and mustard roasted Farm Brussels sprouts; boiling 13 pounds of pasta for dinner; setting up the dining room; getting lunch into the ovens and out into the dining room; cleaning up and doing last minute dishes. Busy busy bumble bees today. It was just myself and two other guys, so I went into spaz-mode where I try and do things as quickly as possible to maximize productivity. This always results in one things. Me getting hurt. At least it was only a burnt finger today--a nice, white blister on my middle finger, right below my nail. This is not nearly as bad as the huge blister/burn I got on my arm this weekend while cooking breakfast at home. My favorite fry pan's (favorite because 1. it was my parents' fry pan for years and 2. it is old, yet AWESOME!) handle broke, so now the entire pan handle spins around of its own accord.
Back from tangent: Anyway, I only worked a half a day in the kitchen today because I drove a trip to the Francis and Sterling Clark Art Museum. I LOVE the Clark Art Museum; love that it has such a great array of European and North American art, from the Renaissance to the 20th century; definitely one of my favorite places in New England. I have been to the museum several times now, but enjoy going back every couple of months, or so, to see the newest special exhibit. The special exhibit during this particular trip was: The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer (running through mid-March 2011).
What I learned about Albrecht Durer today is, (according to the Clark's website--why reinvent the wheel, eh?)
"the strange world of Albrecht Dürer, populated by monsters, witches, hybrid animals, and marauding soldiers, shares spiritual and social preoccupations with our own time. Dürer (1471–1528) was celebrated throughout the sixteenth century and is memorialized today for his innovative techniques in printmaking, his visionary imagination, and his theoretical writing, which transformed the study of human proportion. Deeply embedded in an age of religious reformation, scientific inquiry, and artistic innovation, Dürer created prints that reflected the tumult of his era."
Though a successful painter, Dürer was also skilled in woodcutting and engraving, later going on to write on a variety of topics including geometry. So successful was he at his craft that Dürer was commissioned by the likes of Emperor Maximilian I.
Posted are two of my favorite engravings, which I saw today. The one on the left features St. Eustace. St. Eustace is the patron saint of hunters or those facing adversity. The story behind St. Eustace is that he was a Roman soldier, who, upon finding a stag with a crucifix between his horns, reflected upon faith; was baptized and converted to Christianity; refused to worship false gods; was roasted alive. If you look closely at the picture you will notice the stag is pictured with the crucifix between his horns, just as the story suggests.
The picture on the right features St. Jerome, one of my personal favorite patron saints (this may be due to the fact that St. Jerome is the patron saint of Librarians). A lover of learning, St. Jerome was appointed by Pope Damasus to revisen the Latin New Testament of the Bible. St. Jerome is often pictured in his study or with a lion, or both as it were. The lion is sometimes interpreted as meaning that St. Jerome was a "fearless champion of the faith."
Back from tangent: Anyway, I only worked a half a day in the kitchen today because I drove a trip to the Francis and Sterling Clark Art Museum. I LOVE the Clark Art Museum; love that it has such a great array of European and North American art, from the Renaissance to the 20th century; definitely one of my favorite places in New England. I have been to the museum several times now, but enjoy going back every couple of months, or so, to see the newest special exhibit. The special exhibit during this particular trip was: The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer (running through mid-March 2011).What I learned about Albrecht Durer today is, (according to the Clark's website--why reinvent the wheel, eh?)
"the strange world of Albrecht Dürer, populated by monsters, witches, hybrid animals, and marauding soldiers, shares spiritual and social preoccupations with our own time. Dürer (1471–1528) was celebrated throughout the sixteenth century and is memorialized today for his innovative techniques in printmaking, his visionary imagination, and his theoretical writing, which transformed the study of human proportion. Deeply embedded in an age of religious reformation, scientific inquiry, and artistic innovation, Dürer created prints that reflected the tumult of his era."
Though a successful painter, Dürer was also skilled in woodcutting and engraving, later going on to write on a variety of topics including geometry. So successful was he at his craft that Dürer was commissioned by the likes of Emperor Maximilian I.
Posted are two of my favorite engravings, which I saw today. The one on the left features St. Eustace. St. Eustace is the patron saint of hunters or those facing adversity. The story behind St. Eustace is that he was a Roman soldier, who, upon finding a stag with a crucifix between his horns, reflected upon faith; was baptized and converted to Christianity; refused to worship false gods; was roasted alive. If you look closely at the picture you will notice the stag is pictured with the crucifix between his horns, just as the story suggests.
The picture on the right features St. Jerome, one of my personal favorite patron saints (this may be due to the fact that St. Jerome is the patron saint of Librarians). A lover of learning, St. Jerome was appointed by Pope Damasus to revisen the Latin New Testament of the Bible. St. Jerome is often pictured in his study or with a lion, or both as it were. The lion is sometimes interpreted as meaning that St. Jerome was a "fearless champion of the faith."
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