‘It is a wonderful picture’, said Keats of Benjamin West’s painting ‘Death on the Pale Horse’, which he saw in December 1817. ‘But there is nothing to be intense upon; no women one feels mad to kiss; no face swelling into reality. The excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables…
Week 15: Stills. Crop positions and print
Indesign does the job, the stills I am printing feel closer to want I wanted to achieve. Filming was a very effective way of gathering a huge amount of information which I then edited to find the images I wanted. Overlaying them in the video clips allowed me to revisit my emotional response to each…
Week 15: Painters from my past at the National Gallery.
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…
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…
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