I hope that one day someone will be able and willing to tell the world a little more about this work. Technically it is amazing what ever size it is; carved marble! Now think about that and send Michelangelo back to school. Aesthetically it would be difficult to better; certainly not a classical pose and […]
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Terra Cotta
Early work by Who? Rodin! I am keen to find a good example of two images of a terra cotta bust of similar ilk as these two, in an effort to compare media. The first is ‘Flora’ by C-Belleuse , two different versions. Marble The second is Mlle Vuillier by Aime-Jules Dalou , same work […]
Please buy a flower, sculpture oriental?
ed The Flower Seller – Jeune Fille de Bou Saada by Louis–Ernst Barrias 1841-1904 The first one is in Ivory, bronze, wood and mother of pearl and is small at 33cm x 27cm. The second is in bronze size unknown and the last in I guessed terra cotta, but if it is plaster as Ian […]
Michelangelo’s awful painting
I was shocked when I first saw this. It is supposed to be a woman. No amount of spin will convince me. If it was a one off I might forgive him but it wasn’t.
Michelangelo
From The Royal Collection, Leda and the Swan (Leonardo) , Drawing by Raphael Lucretia by Raphael And these two by Raphael of his mistress Passable female forms? The almost ‘God Like’ adoration given to Michelangelo is in my view misplaced and many sculptors out stripped his skill. I acknowledge only that he was a great […]
Decadent Art and Sculpture
I am not ashamed of my love of Decadent Art. This picture fromhttp://www.leninimports.com/alphonse_mucha_gallery.html#amgall with thanks
Felix-Maurice Charpentier, ‘Flours Que Amavo’
There are a few sculptors who go the extra mile. My list is not complete yet, but Bernini and Clodion are good examples of what I mean and equate in Music to Bach and Mozart. Here is a new addition to my list Felix-Maurice Charpentier 1858-1928. In 1912 (a very good year for lots of […]
Childhood Sweethearts
Some years ago now we were invited to dinner at Christmas by a family not too far away. They were about twenty of them and six or seven of us so it was ‘fun’. Their kitchen was enormous with a huge table in the middle covered in paperwork and little room for anything else other […]
Reid Dick in Regents Park
Michael Copeland sent me this picture of another work by Reid Dick RA which I was not aware of. Clearly a delightful childhood moment captured (even if no one believes you about the frog)! Note how he has caught the head; children hold their heads differently to the rest of us. Dated 1931.
Purple Basil and ‘where are the butterflies this year’?
I would expect to see many more butterflies at this time of year. That’s about all we have today! Beneath my younger daughter’s ‘man’ she did when she was 15, is a poor example of purple basil in need of water!
