Inter-rail 2011. Final Travel Plans

In one of my earlier posts I talked about how I would like to inter-rail in the summer. Well, now I have booked and in the midst of my final planning stages. I am travelling with Heather and Betty (two fellow architects). We are leaving Edinburgh on the 30th of May and arrive on the 3rd of July. 




















We start in Amsterdam then..
Berlin
Prague
Vienna
Slovenia
Italy- Venice           Milan
           Turin
Monaco
Marseille
Barcelona
Paris














We plan to visit Anne Frank's annex in Amsterdam. Then see Peter Eisenmanns Jewish memorial in Berlin. From there stay two nights in Prague. Moving on from the Czech Republic we go to Vienna. Whilst staying in Vienna we are going for a day trip to Budapest. This also allows us to see another country. From there we brush through Slovenia staying only one night and end up on a day trip to Venice. Travelling from there we stay in Milan, taking advantage of its fashionable surroundings. Last stop in Italy is Turin. Only staying one night we are still unsure of our plans there. Travelling down the French coast to our next destination. Barcelona. I have been there quite a few times so its upto the others where they want to see first. I expect they will want to appreciate Gaudi's architecture. Travelling up through France stopping at Bordeaux to windsurf we will end up at our final destination, Paris. It will then be the usual tourist attractions Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Pompidu...

Money or Art?

Cornelia Parker is an installation artist. She challenges physics and investigates private/public spaces through her art. Parker experiments with Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991).

“as an individual I am very moved by the politics and the ethics of environmental issues, but I can’t do that in my art.” Cornelia Parker.

Unlike other modern artists Parker does not use her art as a statement. The purpose of Parker's art is not to earn the money which is found in the exclusive world of modern art today, but develops a subject which involves experiments. Her interest in the materials potential creates the art. For example, Damien Hirst's pickled sharks are arguably not art. His diamond skull, "For the Love of God" is priced at £50,000,000. 

There is little or no thought involved in sticking diamonds on a skull. It is almost as if Hirst is taking advantage of the art world as he knows himself his art is pointless. Art to him is a business and it soon loses the purpose which drove Hirst to pick this career. This man has no respect for his own art. 

Hirst led an art movement called the  YBA's (Young British Artists) and in this also, was Tracey Emin. Her art has also become commercial. Many of the artists in this movement now earn huge amounts of money and no respect for their work as an individual artist.