Peek!
Today I found a real treasure! I've had my eye on it for a while now, and when I went to check it out, it was even cooler. Since I had no museums plans today, I did a little bit of running with around with my camera. Right in my neighbourhood!
The shadow of another building, the peeling of a brick wall.
Isn't this cute? Everybody's wall is a different colour.
The loneliest little playground I've met so far.
This building's window's faces the other buildings wall? windows? Pretty tight!
Apartment/Condo playground. The vents are cool too. The playground is spread out as little islands/pits along the path.
island one
island two
ISN'T THIS SO COOL. Here, it says:
PLAYGROUND
"Pictures From an Exhibition"
designed for free by
Victor Hartmann (architect/painter)
Modeste Mussorgsky (musician/composer)
Wassily Kandinsky (artist/theorist)
So this is how the story goes...
One day, a long time ago, the Russian composer Modeste Mussorgsky and the architect Victor Hartmann met and become instant friends. When his beloved friend dies, Hartmann's works were collected for a memorial exhibition and Mussorgsky composed a suite in ten piano movements dedicated to his friend. The music is based on drawings and watercolours made by Hartmann on his travels and the meter of the music depicts the act of walking through an imaginary tour of an art collection.
The order of Movements, excluding the promenade:
No. 1 Gnomus
No. 2 "Il vecchio castello" with troubadour.
No. 3 "Tuileries" (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) Dispute between children at play.No. 4 "Bydło" Cattle, A "A Polish cart on enormous wheels, drawn by oxen."
No. 5 Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
No. 6 "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" "Two Polish Jews, Rich and Poor (Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle)"
No. 7 "Limoges", le marché (La grande nouvelle),The Market at Limoges (The Great News), "French women quarreling violently in the market."
No. 8 "Catacombæ" (Sepulcrum romanum) and "Cum mortuis in lingua mortua","Hartmann represented himself examining the Paris catacombs by the light of a lantern."
No. 9 The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yagá)
No. 10 The Bogatyr Gates (in the Capital in Kiev)
No. 1 Gnomus
*No. 2 "Il vecchio castello" with troubadour
No. 3 "Tuileries" (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) Dispute between children at play.
No. 4 "Bydło" Cattle, A "A Polish cart on enormous wheels, drawn by oxen."
No. 5 Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
**No. 6 "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" "Two Polish Jews, Rich and Poor (Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle)" (the swings?)
No. 7 "Limoges", le marché (La grande nouvelle),The Market at Limoges (The Great News), "French women quarreling violently in the market."
***No. 8 "Catacombæ" (Sepulcrum romanum) and "Cum mortuis in lingua mortua","Hartmann represented himself examining the Paris catacombs by the light of a lantern." (spinny top)
No. 9 The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yagá)
****No. 10 The Bogatyr Gates (in the Capital in Kiev)
THE END. Isn't it fascinating? I didn't realize the entire story until I came back to look it up. But for some reason I cannot find any information about the playground itself...but there is no way I am making this connection up. Below are some footnotes, and leftover pictures with no story left to tell.
1. boy being pushed, 2. isn't this adorable..
2. Maybe this is the lamp!?
the other side of the ox cart
*1. I cannot tell if this is movement 2, or movement 10. I think the troubadour is a tell-tale sign that this is the castle, but how can the park contain the entire orchestrated piece except the grand finale? Also, that structure slightly resembles the image in the painting. So I'm a bit confused. Perhaps the Troubadour is the symbol for movement 2 and the gates is the final piece and not the castle.
*2. This was a guess that perhaps the swing was symbolic for one being high (rich) and another being low (poor).
*3. I did not notice any figures or any lanterns. Maybe the mound of sand is a catacomb, or the labours of a hard-working child. This was the only unidentified playground piece left.
*4 See note 1. I mean, just look at this image!
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ReplyDeleteI KNOW RIGHT?!!
ReplyDeleteThis is indeed quite nice how the artist put the art in the playground. It's not very clear to me how there are 2 separate places that represent the Movements. The basketballcourt does not entirely make sense when everything else is on the sandy playground.
ReplyDeleteI'd say the "promenade" is the sand at first in which the viewer walks from one display to the next, perhaps even the hill part. But it could be the little round benches too.
The rest fits nicely but keep in mind that some of the works got lost so...these can even not be displayed here. Nice post!