Wingtip gone but still hanging on.
Jane Austen’s home village and Mad Meg
Radio four talked about Lady Hestor Stanhope yesterday who’s story is amazing. Among many other things she befriended and was beloved by the Arab world an attitude we should try to emulate 200 years later. Her story was discussed on BBC Radio Four yesterday and if you want to know more about her you could […]
Life Drawing for Victorian Ladies
Corporal Shaw I suppose some of us never really grow up. When serving, I visited my Regimental museum and among all the astonishing things to see and read was the story of Corporal Shaw. It frightens me now that I should have learnt by heart the description of this regimental celebrity. “..Corporal Shaw who cleft […]
Dorset Sunflowers
To all lovers of Van Gough, I apologise, in part, for my opinions and in respect for you all, I add the joke I saw in a bunch of flowers my wife brought home recently; these three specimens which are now past their best! We will plant the seeds next year to see if they […]
Angel of the South, Ebbsfleet Landmark
Just how low profile is this project? Interesting how difficult it seems to be to get people to judge the five ideas from the Artists (flavoured with a Turner Prize or two so you know where we are coming from). A interesting paragraph from here yesterday sums it all up nicely, and I quote: Controversy […]
Contemporary Sculpture
On the subject of contemporary art, I have seen this work and liked it. The foundry told me it was extremely difficult to do. The outside of the shell is highly burnished; you can see your face in it! This clearly illustrates just how versitile bronze can be. Some of those figures on Philip Jackson’s […]
Marc Quinn and Damien Hirst at Sothebys
Sotheby’s is certainly breaking the ice in terms of selling contemporary work. Indeed one could call it a historical landmark. For artists it is highly significant at least in theory. Next week, Damien Hirst will become the first artist to sell new work at Sotheby’s auction in London. Waldemar Januszczak asks “Could this be the […]
Van Gogh’s sunflowers
100 swallows does a fantastic blog which I read regularly, enjoying the stories of Artists and Sculptors he tells and occasionally being inspired by a comment or work he has posted. I recommend you visit him too. Now I am not on the whole an argumentative type, but I sometimes disagree and can’t resist the […]
Sculpture is the Be All And End All in Visual Art. Official.
Did you spot the Sculpture Diaries on TV this evening? Waldemar Januszczak Art critic of Channel Four, sets out to prove that sculpture is the single most important subject in Visual Art. He is right of course, I look forward to the next two episodes. As an aside though; he did bring up some stuff […]
Grave
Ummm…see comments on the last post but one to see why I added this.
