Category Archive: art

25 Sep

John Gist: Cotton at The Hort

John Gist: Cotton at The Hort

Botanical artist John Gist’s recent work caught my eye at The 13th Annual International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition at the The Horticultural Society …

 
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25 Sep

Curtis and the golden magazine

Curtis and the golden magazine

heavy volumes with block printed text on hand pressed paper with hand coloured illustrations.

 
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22 Sep

a little ship in a tsunami

a little ship in a tsunami

“There were also with him other little ships.”

 
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01 Jun

The sun, the muse and the Galerie d’Apollon

The sun, the muse and the Galerie d’Apollon

In Greek mythology Apollo is leader of the various muses and, befittingly, the room is a celebration of the sun and light over which he presided, as well as an embodiment of the fruits of each of his muses.

 
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18 May

Trompe-l’œil and whimsical wall flourishes in the Louvre

Trompe-l’œil and whimsical wall flourishes in the Louvre

These wall flourishes and Trompe-l’œil details can be found in the Galerie d’Apollon in the Louvre, Paris.

 
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11 May

the beautiful weeds

the beautiful weeds

So why should weeds be beautiful? Perhaps because they bring us back to earth, provide us with honest labor in ‘weeding’ and trimming, and when they are properly tended enable us to enjoy the magnificently beautiful, or delicious; depending on the other plants one has planted in the garden.

 
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28 Apr

Connecting to internals; Whitney Biennial 2010

Connecting to internals; Whitney Biennial 2010

The drawing crawls across the wall, as the visualisation builds, the linework is slightly schizophrenic; here focusing and ruminating for a while; there lacing loosely over unknown matter. And all the while the paper accommodates as required.

 
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11 Apr

fancy vs reason

fancy vs reason

for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

 
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27 Mar

compelled to make marks: Ingres; Line

compelled to make marks: Ingres; Line

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings.

 
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25 Mar

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

I’ve been thinking on the question of what compels me to draw. This has led to questioning what has moved other artists to pick up …

 
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