San Francisco

San Francisco was pretty awesome.

Jasper Johns, Land's End, 1963.

A Few Highlights:

One of the first galleries we went to is owned by a man named Anthony Meier. He shows work in the entrance of his home and the back rooms and upstairs are residential. He was having an opening the night we were there of an artist named Robert Buck. I liked his work. He takes images of smoke he finds off the internet, screen prints the image, and then paints two layers. One with acrylic paints, the other with alert paint(what they use to paint road signs). Alert paint is super reflective so it was interesting to take photos of his work with and without flash.

The Artist: Robert Buck. In the zone. Explaining his work. He was totally cool and very interesting to talk to.

W/out Flash

W/ Flash

The SF MOMA was very cool. I think it's one of my favorite museums. Everything is super well placed and organized. Plus they just have incredibly awesome pieces.

Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain

Went to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. They were having a mural exhibit, which I really liked. Giant rooms were dedicated to one or two murals:

Also walked along the wharf and Chinatown:

The seals are totally hilarious and adorable. I could have watched them for hours. I think they would have liked that too.

We went to a few more galleries while there and also did a few artist studio visits, which were one of my favorite things. Another favorite thing was the Mission District. I'll do a smaller post about that soon!

Just love to travel!

Linderhof

On the fourth day of the trip we went to Linderhof Castle, which was modeled after Versailles. It was the only castle finished by Ludwig II when he was king of Bavaria during the latter half of the 19th century. Ludwig was kind of obsessed with Louis XIV. He had portraits and busts of Louis and his mistresses throughout the palace and he didn't really even know him. I think they might have met once (maybe just a little bit creepy). Ludwig was completely eccentric. When he lived in this castle he would always dine alone and because he didn't want anyone in the room while he was eating he had his table placed on a platform, which could be lowered into the floor. The servants would place the food on the table and then raise it back up to the king. Crazy? Yes. The inside was gorgeous, however. The castle has its own "hall of mirrors" too, which was completely amazing, but you were only allowed to take photos outside of the castle.

From the gardens:

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