London trip

The portrait that visually engaged me is the one of the Queen Elizabeth I, known as "The Ditchley  portrait", made by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. It was made in oil on canvas.

This portrait was produced for Sir Henry Lee, whio had been the Queen's champion from 1559-90.It probably commemorates an elaborate symbolic entertainment which Lee organised for the Queen in September 1592, and which may have been held in the groubnd's of Lee's house at Ditchley, near Oxford, or at the nearby place at Woodstock.After his retirement in 1590.

The portait shows Elizabeth standing on the globe of the world, with her feet on Oxfordshire. The stormy sky, the clouds parting to reveal sunshine,and the inscriptions on the painting make it plain that the portait's symbolic theme is Forgiveness. The sun represented there is the symbol of the SUN.

Looking at her clothes we can notice some particular elements which are  symbolic. For example the angel wings around her head means that she is sent from God. The rose on her neckband symbolise youth and it is flowering and blossoming like the queen. She also wears very expensive jewels that only the first class people could wear. The white dress symbolise the purity. The queen is holdin a fan in her arms that only the rich had. In her left hand she is holding a glove that was worn by officers, so it shows the military strength.

I was partucularly affascinated by this portrait because of the clothing, the location and especially because of the small dettails which I thought could express many symbols of that era.

MAC

The Mac store was very busy,  so it was quiet difficult to find someone to ask for a product or even for  help. There was a separate floor for the Mac Pro where we(students) purchased our new products.
 One of the things I really appreciated was the music which was  Rihanna's mixed playlist.
the store was crowded and it was very difficult even for workers to move from a place to another to be available to cotumers. Another thing I appreciated was the make-up artists who worked their and were doing the make-up on different persons.You could watch and learn also new startegies from them.

Charles FOX

The Charles Fox store was a very quiet place, especially if compared with the MAC store. The music playing was very quiet,so the atmosphere there was completely different from the previous store.Even if at the begining  we had a small presentation of the departments and even the store wa nearly empty it was difficult to catch a person who could help you to find the right product.
There was a halloween section which was situated in the SPECIAL EFFECTS department.I think that it was the right place where to create a Haloween atmosphere.