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Untitled #23: November 2009
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Monday, 30 November 2009. Like A Bad Tempered Badger. But tomorrow is the 1st December and thus the beginning of a little thing called 100 Days to Make a better person. Which, thanks to the tweets of the marvellous Josie Long. So there we go - 30,000 words of my meandering rambles to come - isn't the internet lucky. Thursday, 5 November 2009. A word cloud based on an extended essay that I wrote as part of my degree coursework:. Wednesday, 4 November 2009. Of cou...
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Untitled #23: 100days of Art: Day Twelve: What's The Story?
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Thursday, 17 December 2009. 100days of Art: Day Twelve: What's The Story? Edward Hopper - Automat. But it’s also the absence of a story that can fascinate us and draw us in, Brozino’s Allegory, intrigues precisely because although the story has been lost it so clearly dripping with narrative intent that we have to fill in the blanks. This last detail reminds me of Manet’s Bar at the Folies Bergere. So what’s the story? So after all that what have learnt? 100days...
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Untitled #23: 100days of Art: Day Eleven - And Now For Something Completely Different.
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Wednesday, 16 December 2009. 100days of Art: Day Eleven - And Now For Something Completely Different. Bronzino - An Allegory with Venus and Cupid. (. Sometimes a piece of information comes your way that irrevocably changes the way you look at a work of art. Take for example Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Stand behind some gallery visitors admiring it in the National Gallery and you’ll inevitably hear one of two things. Would have been sectioned long ago. Perhaps...
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Untitled #23: 100days of Art: Day Thirteen - A Lot of 'Not Much'
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Friday, 18 December 2009. 100days of Art: Day Thirteen - A Lot of 'Not Much'. Richard Serra - Trip Hammer. It may sound like a contradiction in terms, but some Minimalist art is big, really big. It almost as if the artists want to emphasise that there’s not much there by making an awful lot of ‘not much’. Donald Judd’s series of free standing boxes. And installations while performances and ‘happenings’ were staged and collaborative sculptures. Of COR-TEN Steel t...
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Untitled #23: 100days of Art: Day Nine - Zips.
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Friday, 11 December 2009. 100days of Art: Day Nine - Zips. Barnett Newman - Onement I. I’d loved Barnett Newman’s paintings since my adolescence, the simplicity and effrontery of painting a stripe of one colour flanked by another and calling it art appealed to the same bloody-minded bit of teenage rebellion in me that worshipped Joy Division, it was sparse and stripped down, making noise by what was left out rather than what was put in. The excitement and tensio...
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Untitled #23: 100days of Art: Day Fourteen: Pearls
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Monday, 21 December 2009. 100days of Art: Day Fourteen: Pearls. Well and truly in the festive spirit today, so I thought I’d give you a present. It’s not an artwork you can see or touch, but it’s an artwork that you can enjoy anywhere at any time and once you’ve got it, you’ve got it forever. You can even give it to someone else without losing it. What colour is the paint? 8220;Pearls Rolled Across A Floor”. I can hear the sound they'd make, I can see the pearls...
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Untitled #23: October 2010
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Sunday, 17 October 2010. Well, I'm shortly to start blogging again, and just for a bit of a change of scenery have moved over to Wordpress. Come and find me here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. Angry people in local newspapers. New Humanist Blog (Rationalist Association). Emma j. lannie. One Hundred Love Stories. One Hundred Tiny Moments From My Past, Present and Future. The Song Century Challenge.
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Untitled #23: 100days of Art: Day Ten - Collapsing the Distance
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Monday, 14 December 2009. 100days of Art: Day Ten - Collapsing the Distance. Edouard Manet - Olympia. Looking with 21st Century eyes, it’s difficult to believe that the paintings of Eduard Manet once provoked such an outcry. To contemporary eyes Olympia. In 1865, at which Olympia. Was exhibited, the female nude was a perfectly acceptable subject and in previous years works like Alexandre Cabanel’s Birth of Venus. Had been exhibited without an eyebrow being raised.
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Untitled #23: Moving House
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Sunday, 17 October 2010. Well, I'm shortly to start blogging again, and just for a bit of a change of scenery have moved over to Wordpress. Come and find me here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. Angry people in local newspapers. New Humanist Blog (Rationalist Association). Emma j. lannie. One Hundred Love Stories. One Hundred Tiny Moments From My Past, Present and Future. The Song Century Challenge.
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Untitled #23: October 2008
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High Culture - Low Culture - Horticulture. Friday, 3 October 2008. Italian Diary 2008: Day One. I don’t know what time it is (my alarm clock battery seems to have run out) but I’ve been staring at the ceiling through the dark for what seems like hours. I’ve skimmed the guidebooks, I’ve been through the lists a hundred times in my head, there really is nothing more I can do. We’re going on holiday and there’s no stopping us now. Are we going to have enough money? Will our online check in work? But still t...
