Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 May 2011

Remembering and forgetting

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We can only see the Sistine Chapel for the first time once, and we can never be surprised twice by the outcome of a poem or a novel, the un...
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Friday, 6 May 2011

Wine and epilogues

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A Scene from “As You Like It”  by Walter Howell Deverell If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play n...
Monday, 2 May 2011

It is not enough to look at 'the full picture'

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It is not enough to look at 'the full picture'. We must look further. And this is why: Take Quinten Massys's notorious The Ugly...
Monday, 25 April 2011

A subversive Chinese connection

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[click image to enlarge] John Everett Millais's Esther (1865) |  Handmade oil painting The story might be that of a Jewish queen from...
Saturday, 19 March 2011

"a virgin with no legs to leave me, no arms to hold me, no head to talk to me"

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1934 Magritte Le Viol 72x54 cm The following is Susan Gubar's interpretation of Magritte's painting (above) in her article ...
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Monday, 14 March 2011

"and as a day is not really a day because each day is like another day and they begin to have nothing"

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The British Art Show 7 The artist who created the pictured artwork: Juliette Blightman Lamp, net curtain (courtesy the artist and Hotel, Lo...
Monday, 21 February 2011

How is love like watercolour?

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Paolo and Francesca da Rimini   (1855) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti  Yesterday, when I was reading the following description of watercolour ...
Saturday, 5 February 2011

The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

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Every now and then it is very nice to go to a quiet museum that is not swamped with visitors, especially one that does not oppress you with ...
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Saturday, 1 January 2011

Wish You Were Here? Postcards from the Future

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"Wish You Were Here? Postcards from the Future" is an exhibition of fourteen digitally-transformed photomontages of recognisable L...
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Thursday, 23 December 2010

The Book of the Dead

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- "Truth is in my heart, and in my breast there is neither craft nor guile.  --   The Egyptian Book of the Dead .  - Today we went to...
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Saturday, 18 December 2010

Exit Through the Gift Shop

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On 2nd December, 2009, I posted these Banksy images on my previous blog: Responses: [Click image to enlarge] Recently, I watched Exit ...
Sunday, 12 December 2010

Nude and naked

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“In the 1950s, art historian Kenneth Clark distinguished between the terms ‘nude’ and ‘naked’. For him, ‘nakedness’ implies discomfort and e...
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Saturday, 11 December 2010

Philippe Parreno at the Serpentine Gallery

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Last Saturday after a day in the city, we went to the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park to see an exhibition by the Paris-based French-Algeria...
Friday, 10 December 2010

The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising

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SEE MORE PICTURES HERE. When it comes to collecting, I have nothing on Robert Opie. Opie is an avid collector of consumer products and pa...
Saturday, 20 November 2010

Van Gogh and his oranges

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This post was originally written on 24th January, 2010. When we were having dinner with our friend Jonathan (also the prose guest editor ...
Saturday, 6 November 2010

Coincidence -- Campion copies Hopper?

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This post was originally written on 1st September, 2010. Read a review of Bright Star  here . Edward Hopper: "If you could say it i...
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Sunday, 31 October 2010

Matisse

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This post was originally written on 11th May, 2010. BBC is currently running a series called "Modern Masters" , presented and na...
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