Apperently, I suck at blogging. Probably because I'm too busy out living my life rather than writing about it. Maybe also because my drawing professor likes to assign hours worth of homework at times I absolutely don't have hours to spare. If only there were three of me; one to draw at all hours of the day and night, one to go to every museum and art gallery I can get my paws on, and one to sleep and enjoy all that is Greece. My life is definitely a three girl job.
Last Thursday, or forever ago in Greece time, a small group of us were escorted downtown by Phil to go to a couple site visits...
Once we got within a certain distance of Syntagma Square, the roads were blocked and cars and pedestrians weren't really allowed much further.
Luckily, my site visit, the glorious Goulandris Collection, was right before the blocked areas and we were able to get in cheap.
We mostly just breezed through the museum since we had other sites to get to also, but I really loved this nifty little light installation.
The Goulandris Collection is mainly known for it's extensive exhibition of Cycladic art and figurines. These cute little statues are anthropomorphic figures.
I took some pretty neat notes at this place to help with my site visit, and I really enjoyed the fact that everything in here was incredibly well labeled and you could really get a sense of why these pots and artifacts are important and what they were used for.
The Cycladic figures were often used as tributes to Mother Earth and the crossed arms are a symbol of fertility. I really love these figures. Not only are they beautiful, but they stand for so much, the symbolism is so strong.
When we left the museum we ran into more police blockades, but we found a lon way around them and eventually ended up in areas that we probably weren't supposed to be in on our way to the National Gardens.
Timing this picture was pretty difficult, but if you look behind the lovely Alec, you can see a protester leaving Syntagma with a mask and sunglasses on to protect him from the tear gas, the real subject of this photo.
En route to the National Gardens we stumbled upon Aristotle's Lyceum, which was in fact stumbled upon by someone else not too long ago when it was discovered in 1996.
I kind of expected there to be a lot more to the National Gardens, but I hear there is a small zoo nearby so I'll have to give it another chance. If they have lions, it can redeem itself.
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, although it was never finished and was really just busy work for the people of Athens, it's still pretty stupendous.
Hadrion's Gate nicely framing the Acropolis in the back ground.
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