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Category Archives: Art history
Cycling to Giverny
It’s already August and we are well into holiday season, which inevitably turns thoughts to other years, other holidays…not least when the inspiration they provided is only now turning into the fruit of another year’s paintings. Having very recently completed … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art history, Art technique, Biography, Floral art, History, Holiday destinations, Landscape art, Light, Painting, Photography, Travel
Tagged after Monet, Claude Monet, contemporary Giverny paintings, cycling tour, Fat Tire Bike Tours, Gare Saint-Lazare, Giverny, Helen White Artist, Monet's Garden, painting Monet's garden, Paris, reflection, water
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Living art
On Friday, my daughter and I set off on a day trip to Cambridge – or should I say pilgrimage since this is about a five-hour round trip from where we live – to visit a place called Kettle’s Yard … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art history, Art in the living space, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Craft & design, Culture, Exhibitions, Galleries, History, Life choices, Lifestyle
Tagged Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson, Cambridge, Christopher Wood, Constantin Brancusi, David Jones, Harold Stanley 'Jim' Ede, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore, Kettle's Yard, Miro, William Congdon
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Summer Hours
My summer hours, this year, are mostly filled with painting and walking by day…watching films by night; in fact, I seem to have got into the luxury of choosing a film to watch most evenings and, lately for some reason, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art history, Culture, Entertainment, Films
Tagged art as a possession, French films, Juliette Binoche, Musée D'Orsay, Summer Hours
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The making of an artist
For some time now, I’ve had a half-formed post just hovering there without the words having arrived… All I had to build it on were some photos from the galleries taken on my recent visit to Nottingham Castle Museum in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art history, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Culture, Exhibitions, Films, Galleries, Literature
Tagged AJ Munnings, art training, breaking out of the art establishment, DH Lawrence, evolving art practices, Harold Knight, Jonathan Smith, Lamorna, Laura Knight, Newlyn School, Nottingham Castle, Sons and Lovers, Summer in February, what makes an artist?, women artists
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