Barbara Hepworth, as my followers will by now know, is one of my favourite modern artists. I find her sculpture full of power and emotion and I also enjoyed researching the Hepworth Wakefield, David Chipperfield’s award winning gallery. While Hepworth’s sculpture is ubiquitous her paintings are much harder to find as they appear from quite…
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I am a student at University Oxford in Art History. I have an eclectic taste in Fine Art ranging from Medieval to post modern and enjoy painting, sculpture and architecture. I am now retired having had careers in Coal Mining, Water Supply and Construction.
Oxfordshire Artweeks update
The Cotswold Life have done a promotional piece for Oxfordshire Artweeks and lo and behold a personal piece and two of my paintings. https://estherlafferty.wordpress.com/2019/04/18/art-into-the-woods/ You might note that Gordon Harris and Gordon Charles are one and the same person. Why, I Don’t know, but there you go!
April Painting of the Month
I have been a little late posting a new painting for this month but definitely worth the wait, I hope you agree. The header painting is detail fromTrio ( Surgeons and Theatre Sister) or The Conclusion, 1948, by Barabara Hepworth from her Hospital Drawings series.
Bill Viola and Michelangelo
Bill Viola. I first saw Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall), 2005, in the chapel at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park about five years ago. I have since seen it at The Guggenheim, Bilbao, but this week’s viewing at the Royal Academy in London has restored my faith in the ‘blockbuster exhibition’. …
Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent did not win an Oscar or an Academy Award. Somewhat like Van Gogh himself overlooked in its lifetime. We watched this 2017 film last week and were greatly moved by it. The film was a joint U.K. Polish project directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, and included in the line up is…
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