V&A with Jack and Jazz. :: Photographs & Drawings.

I could visit the Victoria And Albert Museum 1000 times and never get bored of it. It's my favourite place to go and be inspired, and it makes a really nice day out with friends. My friend Jack (who does Big Sounds Radio- good tunes!!) was down visiting London, and he is really into Theatre, so we had to go and see the big Costume/Theatre exhibition. (It's up stairs next to the tapestry room if you fancy seeing it. Free!) Jazz came along too, because she loves the V&A too.They had a few walls full of old posters. I love learning about the old techniques and for example: Upper class theatres wouldn't use illustrations on thier posters for the longest time because they wanted to attract a literate audience. But circuses and variety shows would use images to illustrate what you might see. This was also useful because then the poster boys knew which way was up (back when lots of people couldn't read). Apparently lots of posters were pasted up upside-down!!! And Red ink was super fancy. They also have A LOT of historical artifacts, (like a broken Pete Townshend guitar!!!!) but probably the most impressive was this...Jack told me that Shakespeare was really protective of his plays, and would give each actors seperate scripts with just the minimal prompts so that no one could reproduce the plays. After his death a bunch of actors got together and pieced it all together put together these 'Folios' and if it wasn't for that we wouldn't have the classics! Mind blowing!While there I did a little bit of drawing...But mostly I was just soaking it all in. We sat outside for a bit before it started raining, and I tried Freelensing for the first time:Super fun day. Thanks for letting me share. kimxo

Comments

[Xixia]

i have always always always wanted to visit the Victoria & Albert museum!! but i live in the states and haven't gotten the opportunity to go to london yet. one day...! :)
your drawings are very pretty, and that is too cool that you were at the V&A!

[Jessica]

I live about a 20 minute walk from the V&A and am ashamed to say that I have never been there! Will need to go soon for sure.