The Barber Institute (Art Gallery) has a great exhibition on Parrots in Fine Art until April. Highly recommended. Buzz is a good magazine from Birmingham University. I recommend the article above which appears on the back page of the January issue and is writted by a celebrated academic. Click on the image and it should […]
Archive | Artists
Athelhampton House
Athelhampton House is just down the road from us to the West. It is a fine Tudor Manor House with priests’ holes and secret staircases. The gardens are special too, and in the attic there is a gallery devoted to Marevna; seehttp://www.athelhampton.co.uk/houseandgardens/marevnasstudioen.htmto find out more.
Gerald Laing
Chris Miller has brought my notice to Gerald Laing. “What a player” his Cv, interviews and reflections are definately worth reading and shouting about. http://www.geraldlaing.com/Gerald%20Laing%20Home%20Page.html
A fellow blogger’s definitions of art, brave chap!
Definitions of artArt:1: Any purposeful human activity that has no practical purpose, i.e. does nothing directly for physical survival, and produces something new.2: Communication with beauty.3: Creation wedded to communication.4: A method of expanding the universe by creating.5: Creating something that is pleasant, making it easier for people to turn their attention outward.6: Interesting order.7: […]
My Art
Figures and Animals. http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_314082829.html(Lovelands in USA move figure sculpture) Up to now I have found that demand for my services as a sculptor has been split almost exactly 50/50 figures and animals. Only one of my figures was clothed. Only two were male. 75% of buyers of female figures were woman. All but one has […]
Brad Bourgoyne’s digital drawings
I learnt something new today; digital drawing. Trying to draw with a mouse is extremely difficult and the results usually look a bit like drawings by Lowry, you know, rather bad but not bad on purpose. For a couple of years I have been thinking of getting a graphics pen and now I think I […]
Professor Reinhold Hohl – he can not be serious.
Just sometimes I see red. My family would say often, as “grumpy old male syndrome” has kicked in early for me. But this takes the biscuit. I won’t come to blows over it but I couldn’t agree to disagree. Umm, a bit like that one “I can not stand intolerance of any kind”! One of […]
My bit to Chris Miller’s blog comments
Ref http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19047760&postID=115975910479705435 I am intrigued by your conversation with Lian Neill. First of all the understanding of your comment (in italics); ………Rhythm and Melody……….. These words point to qualities that I think are sorely missing from the re-birth of figurative art — in both painting and sculpture — where anatomy is (regretfully) accepted as the […]
ART ART ART
I doubt there has ever been a potentially more exciting foreign collection of Art Exhibitions in London than there is now. I am planning a trip to them all and will let you know what I think. Rodin at The Royal Academy Holbein at Tate Britain Leonado Da Vinci at The Victoria and Albert Museum […]
Chris Miller
Here is Chris’ blog, well worth a visit and the Sculpture web site is not just very useful but facinating. http://mountshang.blogspot.com/
