A LITTLE BIT OF CULTURE
On Monday, April 5th, Betty, Melanie and I had planned on going to the Port Stephens area but it was a rainy day so we decided to change our plans and go into Newcastle for some culture. We first went to the Da Vinci Exhibition which was very interesting. Da Vinci is mainly known for his paintings of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Working with Leonardo's codices, Italian Artisan's have crafted interactive and life size machine inventions. These works include the first concepts of a car, bicycle, helicopter, glider, parachute, SCUBA, submarine, and military tank to name of few.
In addition the exhibit moves far beyond machine inventions alone, featuring facsimiles of Leonardo's most famous codices, anatomical studies, Anghiari battle drawings, and Renaissance art. This exhibit brings to life the genius of Leonardo as an inventor, artist, scientist, anatomist, engineer, architect, sculptor and philosopher. If the exhibition comes to your area, I highly recommend it.
Next we went to the Newcastle Region Library for an exhibition called Curio Naturae which featured the Llewellyn Chest, selected rare books from the Library's collection, and artworks by seven natural history illustrators. The Llewellyn Chest was inspired by the concept of the Macquarie and Dixson chests that were constructed at Newcastle around 1818. The collectors chest is not only a repository for collected material but is designed to allow the viewer to explore the "treasures" within.
Our final place of culture was the Newcastle Region Art Gallery. The had
a very interesting exhibit called Times like these: the self portraits of Rick Amor. Most artists will attempt a self-portrait at some time in their career, but Rick Armor made the genre a central core to his art. His first self portrait was done at the age of 14. The exhibition traced Armor's journey as an artist, from tentative youth to cocky teenager, as a troubled man, new father, doubt-filled husband and unhappy absent father.
a very interesting exhibit called Times like these: the self portraits of Rick Amor. Most artists will attempt a self-portrait at some time in their career, but Rick Armor made the genre a central core to his art. His first self portrait was done at the age of 14. The exhibition traced Armor's journey as an artist, from tentative youth to cocky teenager, as a troubled man, new father, doubt-filled husband and unhappy absent father. 
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