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Painted Pallets, April 2020…
40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 Click here for Painted Pallets 1- 20 When I paint figurative watercolours, I always have a piece of paper … Continue reading
Painted Pallets, March 2020…
20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Project started mid-March 2020. I took the sheets used as pallets for my figurative water-colours and decided … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, chance versus deliberation, painted pallets, watercolour, watercolour abstracts
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Trippin
Click the link to watch Trippin This is a dance video set in the wonderful communist monuments of what was Yugoslavia. These were often erected to commemorate resistance against the Nazis. The photographer Xiao-Yang took got some amazing images out … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, history and Geography, Video
Tagged communist monuments, Illusion in Ruins, Katerinha, Xiao-Yang, Yugoslavia
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Heron of Hawthornden
Heron of Hawthornden is published – now as a Grey Suit Editions UK special illustrated chap-book. I wrote two dizains a day for the length of my 2017 residency in the castle. The sequence is accompanied by my own water-colours. Click … Continue reading
Posted in art, Grey Suit Editions, Poetry
Tagged Drue Heinz, Drummond of Hawthornden, Hawthornden
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Whatever happened to Hapi?
“Lord of the Fish and Birds of the Marshes” and “Lord of the River Bringing Vegetation”, Hapi is the Egyptian God of the Nile. He has one pendulous breast full of nourishment, as well as a pot-belly. He is God … Continue reading
Posted in art, history and Geography, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Hapi God of the Nile, Nubia, refugees, Sudan, the Nile
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Bracelli’s modern art – 1624
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bracellis-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624/ I have long maintained that art has its rivers that have been flowing through culture at all times, and my friend Roger Malbert just sent me the interesting link (above), posted by The Public Domain Review. This bears out … Continue reading
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Tagged Bracelli, Francois Desprez, Rabelais, Renaissance modernism, the rivers of art
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An Inquiry into the Sublime
Walter de Maria Lightning Field 1977 This talk for Norfolk Contemporary Art Society in Norwich, Wednesday 2nd October, 2019, is in essence a much edited amalgam of two of my essays in Art and its Dark Side: the eight rivers … Continue reading
Publications by The Theatre of Mistakes
At last, we have managed to work out a way of creating a sales outlet for the seminal Publications of THE THEATRE OF MISTAKES Click this link for Publications by The Theatre of Mistakes My textbook The Analysis of … Continue reading
TACTILE, UNTOUCHABLE
Here is a new review for the Fortnightly Review – Tactile, Untouchable Looking at three stunning works of visual art on show in London just recently. I am dedicating this review here to the memory of Mary Maclean Another Review … Continue reading
A CHAPERONE
The monkeys are in among the mangoes. As for the lovely one, she is emerging from Under the trees, the trees laden with mangoes And monkeys. She’s ambling out of the grove Bearing the nail marks left by the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged erotic Indian sculpture, India, Indian beauty, Khajuraho
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