‘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…
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Project 3
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: 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…
Week 14: GHR & why do we paint?
Artist state a lot of things Gerhard Richter’s statements are about not knowing things. Gerhard Richter is wary of all ideologies and of all exclusive claims on the truth. Having grown up under two totalitarian regimes, first in Nazi Germany and secondly in communist East Germany, he has every cause to be mistrustful of people…
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