Two painters that Isabel mentioned in my final tutorial. I am familiar and fond of them. I made copies, with permission of course while studying for my Diploma in Portraiture. These paintings are important to me as they both show daily life, which is what I wanted to paint, although possibly only moments. All these…
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Week 14: Mingei Movement. Kitchen sink art. Value the everyday and the ordinary. Saga Ware.
What is arts, is it produced only by artists, or is it something that people have routinely created throughout humanity’s existence? This is a question central to the Mingei Movement in the early 20th century. Mingei theory was defined by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). They promoted works of the ordinary craftsmen that spoke to the spiritual…
Week 14:Ode on a Grecian Urn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Wonder what Keats would have said to a Korean Moon Jar? By JOHN KEATS Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In…
Week 14: Ink & Die.
I remember reading about Jane Austin when looking for a day out in Sussex. I then read an article that said she may well have died from poisoning. The theory was that she made her own ink and it could have been the culprit. No one really knows. https://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/collection The old link to this page…
Week 14: Materials and Techniques.
What you work with is what drives the work? It certainly helps if you know what you are doing, research is key and courage and curiosity helps. That leap of faith will either land you in the the mire or triumphantly on the crest of the hill. The Leonardo exhibition had lovely display cases full…
Week 14:Why does a place resonate “They blister up out of space time”.
Thank you Alan Moore head. Alan Moore, why did I not make the connection between these two earlier? I first discovered Alan Moore while endeavouring to engage my children with stories, pictures and writing. Anything to get the homework done. A friend gave me a tip, too pointed for my tender children at that time…
Week 14:Leonardo De Vinci is Cool.
HAMLET-There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. HORATIO-That is most certain. -William Shakespear, Hamlet-Act 5 scene 2 1564–1616 There was a ping and this landed in my In Box this morning Knowing there is always a reason for everthing, I picked up the thread and pulled. Tap on image to…
Week 14: When two things collide and get stuck in a Sandwich.
Named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order “the same as Sandwich”. Ideas and execution We are sandwiched between the earth and the sky. We are sandwiched between…
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