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Klee and Japan

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Klee and Japan
Hello there Sweeties! :hirabbit:
I’ve been wanting to blog the whole time but my week was very hectic and adventurous! Last weekend I visited the Klee Museum in Bern to see the exhibition Paul Klee and the Far East and I enjoyed it very much. And this week, last week I had the chance to visit a really exclusive collection of antique European textiles and Japanese propaganda textiles, especially Kimono. The collector’s house was beautiful and the view was amazing and down in the basement he had rooms full of breath-taking textiles and dresses and we were even allowed to touch them! But I’m going to tell you more about this special excursion in a later entry…


The Paul Klee museum practically consists of two hills or waves and looks pretty cool with all the green landscape in the background. I like Klee’s art and apparently Japan loves him too. He influenced Japanese artists, writers, musicians and even architects. Some of his works show inspirations of different Japanese artists such as Hokusai oder Sharaku and I could clearly see that in his awfully cute and mangaesque fish drawings that remind me a lot of Hokusai’s prints and sketches.

These are art works of a Japanese artist inspired by Paul Klee.

Downstairs there was a large hall where you could try out different things such as Japanese calligraphy and there were many children too. In fact I think it was thought for children but I just had to give it a try too… :nope: I was totally fascinated with Buddha boards – “Based on the Zen concept of living in the moment. You simply paint on the surface with water and your creation will come to life in bold design. Then, as the water slowly evaporates, your art will magically disappear leaving you with a clean slate and a clear mind – ready to create a whole new masterpiece. source“ and that’s exactly how it works. Nevertheless I like writing with real ink much more.. :miam:

Paul Klee museum

I totally lost track of time and in the end we didn’t make it to the Qin exhibition. At least I was able to take some pictures of the inside of the museum that had some stunning deco!


I hope you guys had a good weekend! I spent mine in the countryside with lots of sun, hard work and food~
I don’t know when I’ll be back to posting because there’s the final exams approaching and as ususal I have some ‘last moment studying’ to do.. But I do have some Bento lined up and ready to be published so if I find the time, I would love to show them to you~ :raburabu:

Take care and see you soon!

byebye,

Milan – city of lords

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Milan – city of lords
Hey there Cuties! :bling:
It seems as if the blogging fever has hit me~
But you know how I am with these things, this could very well mean that afterwards it’s going to be quiet for a while. Started wirting this entry somewhen last week but didn’t finish it. It’s exactly one week since my last entry.. I still have to show you some impressions of the rest of Milan. After the verbous last entry this going to be an illustrated one. :hehe:


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A cat in Milan

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A cat in Milan
Hey there Cuties! :nekopaw:
How was your week? Last saturday I went to Lausanne for the Japan Impact, the convention I went to already two years ago. (Click and here and here to view the pictures~) I didn’t stay very long and although the costumes were great, I didn’t take any photos this time. Can’t really explain why but somehow I was too lazy to take decent pictures with that gloomy light. And I felt a little out of place with all the youngsters around me. :ainoonigiri: I’m getting too old for these kind of things! But let’s move on to the real reason for this entry.


My grandmother is quite fashion-conscious and has always had beautiful dresses and jewellery so when I go to Milan to visit her, I try to dress as neat and “Italian” as possible.


That’s not so much my usual dressing style, isn’t it? But the colors are the usual ones. Black, blue, red, white and brown are definitely the colors I wear the most. We spent the whole afternoon with strolling around the Duomo and in the shops and after a few hours my feet started hurting so badly that I barely was able to walk home. Even though or for the very reason that it was sunday, the stores were very crowded and I admired and appreciated Silvankun’s patience. In the end I only got a top from Mango which I can’t wait to wear when it will start getting warmer again.

Sorry for the tense facial expression. The sunlight was so bright! nyahaha my vampire skin & eyes didn’t like it. :klimper:

If you wonder where I’ve been the whole weekend long.. I discovered GAME OF THRONES. Ok, I know you’ve all mentioned it months ago in one way or an other but believe it or not, you’re raving about it let me cold. Don’t know why but somehow I thought it was a science fiction series and so it never crossed my mind to give it a try. Not that I have something against science fiction in general but yeah… So you can imagine what happened next. I lost all my weekend to Game of Thrones and I’m not even finished yet. :w: It’s redundant to write how much I love it?
Well so much that I even forgot to eat and drink. There’s enough nudity and sex but also love, envy, treason and most important: bloody brutality. awww :nope: The third season will premiere on March 31, 2013.

I’ll try and smile on the next photos, ok?

Oh, and on monday my new computer arrived! … yeah… I have all the reasons but no time to blog. But I’ll try to be better in the upcoming weeks!

byebye,


Totally off topic but how did you like the series (Game of Thrones)?! Did you act like an addictive personality as me or didn’t you enjoy it?