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Joris-Karl Huysmans on Modern Art
One of my favourite authors! His views on Modern Art are at last translated by Brendan King (Dedalus, 2020). Tim Keane has an excellent article about this in Hyperallergic – a very good art site. And I also review Brendan … Continue reading
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Tagged decadence, Dedalus, Hyperallergic, Joris-Karl Huysmans, modern art
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Painted Pallets, May 2020…
60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 Continuation of my painted pallets – the sheets of cartridge paper I use to test brush loads and marks when … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract watercolours, art in isolation, painted pallets, watercolour
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Write where we are now
Pleased to see two more poems of mine in Write where we are Now Carol Ann Duffy’s initiative with Manchester University, during lock-down. They have used four. I must say, I am encouraged! My thanks to all involved. Scroll down … Continue reading
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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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
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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
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Tagged Hapi God of the Nile, Nubia, refugees, Sudan, the Nile
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Bracelli’s modern art – 1624
Bracelli’s 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 … 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