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Gardel was the man who first put words to tangos creating a sensation around much of the Americas and Europe. This great tango singer shows up on this decorative painted filete mural in Buenos Aires

Fileteado Porteño, a Style of Painting from Buenos Aires

May 7, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

This decorative painted style, very popular in Buenos Aires, is called ‘Fileteado Porteño’, ‘porteños’ being what the inhabitants of Buenos Aires call themselves. The colourful style, with its painted swirls […]

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Argentina, Art
Diego Rivera mural of the Mayan using cocoa beans to buy corn

The Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera in Mexico City

March 20, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

The Mexican Revolution, a civil war that raged from 1910 to 1920, ousted the hated dictator Porfirio Díaz and created a new era with the government being in the hands […]

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Art, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Mexico
Driftwood boat decorate a boathouse at Gronemad, Sweden

Art Unexpected: Driftwood

March 8, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

My dad used to take us kids wandering along the beaches of the Pacific West Coast where there was driftwood galore. Every often he’d find something the reminded him of […]

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Art, BC, Costa Rica, Sweden
Fish-shaped bike stand in Ballard, Washington

Sea Creature Sculptures

March 3, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

A collection of sea creature sculptures from around the world. From my sculpture tour in Puerto Vallarta I learned that this seahorse was the first sculpture added to the city’s […]

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Art, Collections from Around the World
Rubenlund - family portraits on a wall

Portraits in Denmark

March 19, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

In Denmark it seemed as if there were more portraits than in other places. I’m not sure if that’s true but here are a few I noticed in particular. Family […]

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Art, Denmark, Photo Challenges
Geometric stone sculptures in the garden at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland

Two Free National ‘Arts’ Museums in Dublin, Ireland

August 11, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

The National Museum of Decorative Arts along with the Irish Museum of Modern Art are two free museums on the western side of Dublin. We did both of them in […]

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Art, Ireland
Frida Kahlo's family portrait (unfinished)

Portraits of Pain, Frida Kahlo’s Museum in Mexico City

July 23, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

Frida Kahlo, the great Mexican artist, lived in a world of pain, and her anguish shows in her many self-portraits. And yet she embraced life. Her pain was both physical […]

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Art, Mexico, One Word Photo Challenge
Etretat Rock Formations in a Panorama

Taking Panorama Shots when Travelling

April 17, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

Years ago I discovered these wonderful little throw-away cardboard cameras that shot great panoramas. They didn’t have much range of focus; essentially the only things in focus were at least […]

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Art, One Word Photo Challenge, Photo Challenges
El Greco painting: View of Toledo

Toledo es El Greco, El Greco es Toledo

March 8, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 7 Comments

The first time I arrived in Toledo, the bus dropped us at the road below the city and we began a long magical trudge upwards through the winding medieval streets […]

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Art, Spain

Three-Dimensional Collages of Stone and Plaster in India

July 12, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

In India, many of the buildings and other structures appeared to be three-dimensional collages. Plaster and mirror ‘collage’ in the Amber Palace just outside of Jaipur. If I was trying […]

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Art, India, Weekly Photo Challenge

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