Traditional landscape paintings have been missing from my blog posts for a while so I thought I might correct this by highlighting this delightful study of Ludlow Castle by Samuel Scott from around 1750. Scott (1702-1772) was a British landscape artist based in London. He is most well known for his waterscapes of the sea…
Category: Painting of the Month
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…
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…
Bacchus and Ariadne is my Painting of the Month for February
February is the month of snowdrops and early daffodils. While spring is not yet here the days are getting longer and the sun brighter, preparing us for the end of winter. So a painting celebrating brighter days seemed appropriate to me. It is also a long time since I have visited London. Last week I…
More on Grayson Perry and The Vanity of Small Differences
Writing about The Vanity of Small Differences, Grayson Perry’s charming and challenging tapestries, reminds me how connected art should be. It brings together themes on social mobility referred to as far back as the eighteenth century. It nods to the great Italian Renaissance frescoes of Masaccio. And on tour and on television the series brings…
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