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Showing posts with label Applied art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Applied art. Show all posts
Monday, 27 July 2015

Frames in Focus: #Sansovino Frames at the National Gallery

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Thanks largely to a rediscovery of a love of free form dancing enhanced by fermented sugar beverages, art and writing has been rather negl...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Coral: Science, Mythology, Metamorphoses

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  A Little Girl with a Basket of Cherries © National Gallery I’m not sure if two makes a series yet but despite holidays and work I’ve m...
Sunday, 25 January 2015

Dresden Conference: The one with Horse Blood and the Hunt

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Can't resist this mirror So this is it. The concluding session of the Dresden Conference on Cabinets of Curiosity. That two day eve...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Eyes of Gods: The Interiority of Sculpture

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Reconstruction of Zeus These notes continue on from the lecture on idols . The boundaries between gods and idols are rather blurred; bot...
Monday, 2 July 2012

Ut pictura poesis: Or, poetry in stillness

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Paul Writing, c.1894 by Camille Pissarro Forgive the Latin pretension but I'm talking about poetry and it's a licence to be pret...
Thursday, 16 February 2012

V&A Photographic Archive: Photography as Art

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The Victorians proved problematic in my previous archive visit post so in the interest of balance, the next one is far more cheerful. The V&...
Saturday, 4 February 2012

Mending Broken Hearts: Meaningful not mawkish

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Let me put this to you straight; I don't have an issue with Valentine's Day. I am secretly an old fashioned romantic and a day in co...