The Bayeux Tapestry, as some of my followers will know, often attracts my attention. This great relic of the romanesque period will always be in the forefront of comment as it is such a valuable contemporary record of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings. The original social media with just a sprinkling…
Month: February 2022
The Tree by Phillip Sutton – A Second Painting of the Month for February
Phillip Sutton RA is an artist I recently came accross at an exhibition at Sladers Yard in West Bay. Born in 1928 he studied at The Slade School of Art and has specialised in Landscapes around the world utilising an exciting colour palette. The Tree, in the Tate collection very much represents his style, and…
Installation Art from Donna Huanca at the Arnolfini in Bristol.
Installation art has never been my favourite genre but being an eclectic site I should address the shortfall of entries. Earlier in the week we went to the Arnolfini in Bristol and this work by Donna Huanca was on the ground floor. The Tate definition of Installation art is “used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions,…
A Day out with the Art & Architecture in Bristol
A grey February day to visit Bristol but plenty of colour to see. I will elaborate in more detail in future posts but first a quick whistle stop tour. Our first port of call was the Arnolfini Gallery on the Quayside. This renowned centre for contemporary art has been in existence for over 60 years…
More on the pigments in Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
Titian, the great Venetian Renaissance painter, is most renowned for his handing of colour. I touched on this on my recent post on Bacchus and Ariadne. Colour became so important for the Venetian artists due to the cities position as a centre for trade from the East. But Titian does not just use colour to…
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