Thank you for sharing on youtube again!! I missed your vlogs and love seeing you make art in your van!
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! I'm hoping I can make more videos for KZitem this year :)
@karolsartoasis4815
Жыл бұрын
This video is filled with everything I love, travel, art nature, dogs and Picasso art. Thanks for sharing Holly. ❤
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Aw thanks Karol - glad to tick so many things on your list with this vid! ☺
@katec9893
Жыл бұрын
Holly it's nice to see you feeling more positive about art making. It's also very kind of you to let your partner take some time off while you support both of you, I'm sure he'll feel much better after some rest and time to explore his interests. I've not been to Madrid but went to the Picasso museum in Barcelona which was good. I like the Basque country too, I studied in Pau for a while. If you go back up there have a look at Biarritz and Bayonne, lots of great places around there, San Sebastian too which I presume you've already visited.
@maimaii4805
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing Holly
@DrCalyn
Жыл бұрын
So happy to see you back and living van life! Your honesty and art is very much needed.
@Urukins
Жыл бұрын
I was in this museum last year in summer, the whole museum is filled with impactful pieces Guernica included, with all the studies Picasso made of it. It was definitely one of the high points in my Spain visit as well!
@JannetjeW
Жыл бұрын
Love all of this
@paulinefollett3099
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your travels with us. It was just so interesting.
@stefaniepsiferart
Жыл бұрын
I was in Madrid last summer! Amazing city. I'm also learning Español! Cuatro años! Hope you are all well!
@katierobertsart5658
Жыл бұрын
Hi Holly, I am just so glad to see a video in which you explore, think and talk about the positive and powerful impact art can have on politics and society. Art is such an important and powerful tool for change! Thank you.
@lindyashford7744
Жыл бұрын
I went to see the Guernica painting years ago in Madrid when I was living a bit of a transient life too, was blown over by the painting, but it was the notebooks and sketches that really got to me, such fantastic observation and work. I actually loved Madrid, a feast for art lovers. Just great 😊to see you and Craig and the doggos, you have been missed. In every way you have come a long way since I found you online in 2015.
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Aw thank you Lindy :) I really liked the sketches too! Helped me to understand and appreciate the final piece so much more.
@bluewren65
Жыл бұрын
I was sorry that you didn't talk about your actual experience of observing Guernica. When people say they don't understand why Picasso is a genius, I say, "go stand in front of Guernica" then tell me what you think. Guernica is such a powerful painting. The amount of work Picasso put into making it is astounding. The scale of the work is astounding. While in Madrid you must go to the Prado. There is an entire room of Hieronymus Bosch. The garden of earthly delights is there and it is just sitting out in the open on a table. You can get really close and see all that amazing detail. It truly is an astounding work that was centuries ahead of its time. Then there's the room full of Goya's (another trail blazer who was far ahead of his time). You will weep when you stand in front of The Drowning Dog.
@itscarolinemary
Жыл бұрын
In university I did a fair amount of visual studies courses which focused on art movements, civil resistance, etc. It's been a number of years since but I really enjoyed those courses!
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
They sound great!
@anonymousjdg
Жыл бұрын
Loved seeing your nature journal entries!
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jamie, I hope I can keep the practice up on the road!
@KristinaMBuffetti
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this lovely video. It was nice to see what you've been up to lately 💕
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Kristina!
@louiselangton
Жыл бұрын
All your smashing content as ever with bonus travel vlog 💛 I'm currently reading Orwell's Homage to Catalonia as well, so extra interesting seeing the artwork/posters/history that your shared x
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
We've just started reading that too! I've been wanting to read it for ages, defo feels like the right time. Hope you're enjoying xx The posters/newspapers were fascinating to see - they seemed to be a v important part of the struggle against fascism, super inspiring and the design was just impeccable!
@louiselangton
Жыл бұрын
@@hollyexley it's a speedy read despite a lot of the inaction of warfare being relayed. I'm up to the street fighting currently when Orwell is back from the front, which is just as tense! I'm off to go look up some more of these posters! Have a nice day your end x
@laurawoolf3577
Жыл бұрын
I truly enjoy every one of your videos. Each upload makes me feel quite content and they are always food for thought :) Saludos from the North of Spain :)
@Nonorama
Жыл бұрын
Haven't watched on of your videos in a long while. Just a few days ago I was thinking, "huh, I should watch a Holly Exley Video again, see where she's at with her art". Now this video pops up today, and I see you driving around/ living in a van? XD So much has changed. But I am glad to see the doggos again :)
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Haha a lot has changed, but the dogs remain a constant ! Thanks for checking in today :)
@katjweiss
Жыл бұрын
Hi Holly! I really enjoyed watching your work process in your van! And it’s so cool you saw Guernica IRL - in high school I wrote my course work on it along with other anti-war art by John Heartfield and Banksy. Didn’t have the insight to write about Hannah Hoch at the time but oh well 😅 happy travels! Hope you see more forest critters along the way!
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
John Heartfield's work is so cool - thanks for sharing. I remember I was into Picasso's blue period in school but it's only in my old age that I'm able to appreciate cubism! It was really great to see the painting, big paintings have so much presence, and we spent ages discussing all the different elements and possible meanings. So good.
@randomsquirrelarts
Жыл бұрын
So nice to see a new video from you. You are actually the artist that made me interested in food illustration. Now I'm trying to create my own recipe book/zine. Can't wait to see another video from you!
@arleneoleary7786
Жыл бұрын
Only happy dogs have zoomies. 🥰
@allyur3191
Жыл бұрын
¿Dónde está my black pencil? Lol El Guernica is a powerful obra de arte, thank you for showing this dark side of the recent Spanish past and as you can see, Spain is not only beaches and sun 🌞 Love your new life in a van 💕
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
We are in love with the mountains of Spain, much more than the beaches!
@EleonoraFestari
Жыл бұрын
It’s nice to see you again! And the se vlogs are really lovely as your dogs ❤
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@pdbowman
Жыл бұрын
In 1937, it wasn’t jet aircraft, but jets were just a few years away - coming toward the close of WW2, to which the war in Spain is the more or less deliberately diminished or forgotten opening act. What Hitler’s Germany put into practice as a world-historic first at Gernika, the powers that contained Hitler would themselves ‘perfect’ in the 1940s and on, very much into present. It’s all incredibly recent, or really current rather. Can’t put a link in these comments, but worth looking up is the documentary ‘Bombing War: from Guernica to Hiroshima.’ There’s a trailer for it on the @lglphares channel.
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
I got that bit wrong about the planes! Those fascist bastards. Thank you for the recc Paul I will look it up!
@pdbowman
Жыл бұрын
@@hollyexley No worries, we’ve fetishized these machines and their lore for far too long. I’m a characteristic product of that culture in many ways, sadly. (Much to be said here about fascism not being anywhere near as easy to rid the world of as Hitler was.) Grateful for you guys and the journey you’re sharing with us!
@deoko1
Жыл бұрын
Holley I'm so glad you are in Spain
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for these tips, I will remember them for next time we are in Madrid! We don't have plans to go to Barcelona on this trip but maybe next winter. We really have fallen for Spain, especially the mountains!
@deoko1
Жыл бұрын
@@hollyexley of course! no problem : ) hope you are having a blast and if you go to Andalusia you get to enjoy the warm weather (they have the best weather in the Marbella to Malaga zones). ^__^
@mysoulrambles
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately hunting is very common throughout all of Spain and Portugal :( Thursday and Sunday mornings they'll be out. The season finishes the end of March I think and the end of February, March is a big time for finding abandoned dogs as the older dogs or "bad" hunters just get discarded. Are you familiar with Galgos? With having your beautiful Midge, I'm guessing you'd like them :) Enjoy Spain!!
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
Thats so sad to hear. I hate hunting so much, bad for wild animals and domesticated ones alike :( We've been seeing lots of galgos here, as pets, which is lovely. Midge met one, waggy tails all round!
@mysoulrambles
Жыл бұрын
@@hollyexley oh lovely for the waggy tails 😁 I've got two doggos which is enough for me at the moment but one day I'd love both a galgo and a podenco!
@hollyexley
Жыл бұрын
@@mysoulrambles aw that sounds lovely - yes two dogs is our limit too! :)
@i.a.9453
Жыл бұрын
¿Dónde está? El lápiz está en tu estuche. Bienvenidos a España.
@ellstration
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed your storytelling and the insight about your life in the van Holly. 🤌 I can tell about the research and interest of yours that went into this video.
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