Hollywood - 17/2/12

The exhibition called "Hollywood" was here for the first time ever and I went to have a look as I´m a great fan of movie industry. There were some samples of movie jewelery, some original figurines and famous props from flicks like Batman, Indiana Jones, Spider Man, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Terminator, Pirates of the Caribean, E.T., Titanic, 300, Men in Black, James Bond, Predator, Planet of the Apes and many more....

The owner of this special exhibition is a Swiss producer Roman Güttinger who directly co-operates with Hollywood, and this collection offers more than 200 unique and rare exhibits. Most of them were made specially for the purpose of making of several famous flicks. Among the most popular ones belongs for example the necklace "Ocean heart" and dress of Miss Rose from "Titanic" set, the hat of Charlie Chaplin from his private collection, mask of the Hannibal Lecter alias Anthony Hopkins from "Silence of the Lambs", scarabeus from "Mummy" movie, boxing gloves of Sylvester Stallone from "Rocky", figurine of Golum from "Lord of the Rings", the original jacket worn once by Brad Pitt from the movie "The fighter club" or the figurine of E.T. by Steven Spielberg. 

"The Silence of the Lambs" mask - Anthony Hopkins

"The Saw" - the famous mask

"The Hellraiser"

The Halloween man

Fredy Kruger - "The Nightmare on the Elm street"

 

Arnold Schwarzeneger -"The Terminator"

Yoda - "The Star Wars"

R2 D2 - "Star Wars"

The dress worn by Kate Winslet "Titanic"

"Predator"

"300" starring Gerard Butler

"Rocky" with Sylvester Stallone

"300" immortal mask

"E.T." by Steven Spielberg

So all in all it was very nice and enriching exhibition, I liked some of the props eventhough some masks were pretty scary. I have loads more photos that won´t all fit in here, but I will put them on my facebook site. 

The Art of Hard Rock exhibition - 17/2/12 - Prague

This exhibition displayed the portraits, paintings, instruments and some other creations of famous Rock and Pop icons of our time. I´ve seen Michael Jackson´s self portrait, which was basically a simple drawing of himself from the times of Moonwalk era, not extremely exquisite drawing to be honest but still nice to see something that maestro has done. The only portrait that had some artistic value would be probably Ron Wood´s picture, which looked rather professional and good quality. The rest of the drawings were mostly doodles - the likes of self portrait of Jim Morrison, over which I laughed a lot, or Billy Idol´s signature drawing...that looked as if painted by 5 year old school kid, ha ha. There were also some masks done by Julian Lennon (very intriguing one I must say), or Bruce Dickinson, Roger Daltrey or Mike Olfield. I quite liked the drawing by Pete Townshend, or by John Entwistle from Who, the painting of Elton John as a Superman in his Tommy musical bright coloured boots flying above the Earth. There were also some paintings of stars by Ringo Starr (however, they all looked same to me), and I was quite upset there weren´t any pictures by Freddie, Elton or Jimi Hendrix - as Freddie was the best painter of them all! Anyway, quite good exhibition, but there could be lot more work from other artists....

Ronnie Wood   from Rolling Stones

Bruce Dickinson

Ringo Starr 

Michael Jackson - self portrait

John Entwistle "The Who" - Elton John

Paul Stanley from Kiss

Pete Townshend

Jim Morrison´s self portrait