Tag: Everyday

A lovely find – Serendipity

I love tea pots. Ashmolean Museum – podcast Episode 12 More tea Vicar? link This has been a lovely find completely by accident, it was lurking, just waiting for me to tap the screen❤️. Law, Tax, design, object, learning, history, storytelling, silver, politics, secret messages, Jokes. Magic. My own investigation in to Russel’s teapot has…

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Painters and politics.

Pablo Picasso, Mark Bradford, Vincent Van Gogh, Edwardo Manet and Don. Each painter responded to a ”crisis” situation and produced a painting to reflect their feelings about their chosen subject. Some times their subject matter is historical some times it is current some times it is political, but it is always personal, works as defined…

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Week 33: Marks we make-All The Streets – Davis

All The Streets – Davis — Read on davis.vilums.me/all-the-streets/ I was thinking about how Richard Diebenkorn painted and how he was influenced by Edward Hopper – https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/03/31/richard-diebenkorn-west-coast-painter-his-best/oDFqBqPqwR3uWDovjNmBIL/ostory.html. And Barnet Newman –https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/68.178/– They painted abstractly about things – the paintings are maps of their thoughts and feelings about things. Switching between the figurative and the abstracted,…

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