{"id":30,"date":"2010-09-01T23:58:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T23:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/2010\/09\/01\/fish-in-monaco\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T23:58:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T23:58:29","slug":"fish-in-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/2010\/09\/01\/fish-in-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish in Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 10 July 2010 Stephanie and I visited the Mus\u00e9e Oc\u00e9anographique de Monaco and my understanding was that we were going to see an excellent aquarium\u2014guess who planned the itinerary. The first thing I noticed on entering the building was a display of a large shark in a glass case. I spent some time examining the specimen and appreciating the shark. In my head I could not understand why the head had been pulled up in what seemed an unnatural way. I had heard about the work of Damien Hirst: animals in formaldehyde with axes and that type of thing, but it did not dawn on me that I had been studying an example. I discovered that later.<\/p>\n

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Fish photo<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The aquarium was excellent and the scientific historical displays of the Institut Oc\u00e9anographique were very interesting and informative. It was like spending some quality time with Charles Darwin. I missed a lot of the Damien Hirst exhibition because I didn\u2019t know it was there or, if I saw it, I took it to be scientific material. As we were leaving the premises, as is usual in museums, I think we were passing through a gift shop area. I noticed, however, that I was walking right through a bisected sheep and I\u2019m glad to say I noticed that. I had read something in a newspaper somewhere about such a sheep. Perhaps science and art can co-exist.
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Another fish photo<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

I have been planning an oil painting based on the two photographs above that I took at the aquarium. The piece below is a study entitled \u2018Two blue fish and one yellow.\u2019 It is in charcoal on paper and measures 250 mm \u00d7 250 mm.<\/p>\n

\"Charcoal<\/a>

Two blue fish and one yellow<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 10 July 2010 Stephanie and I visited the Mus\u00e9e Oc\u00e9anographique de Monaco and my understanding was that we were going to see an excellent aquarium\u2014guess who planned the itinerary. The first thing I noticed on entering the building was a display of a large shark in a glass case. I spent some time examining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[9,18,21,32,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}