I Saw Three Ships was my Christmas painting of the month, two years ago, with the exquisite watercolour by Walter Crane. This was all prior to the coronavirus pandemic which has dominated our lives since. It has always been one of my favourite carols with its poetic words of rejoicing and enticing melody. The tune…
Category: Painting of the Month
René Magritte and comparing Surreal Concepts in Modern and Medieval Art
Magritte’s surrealistic ideas of the mid twentieth century epitomise’s that period’s growing interrelationship between language and visual representation. It is my favourite and easiest example to see how philosophy’s obsession with language and truth filters into the visual arts. “This is not a pipe”, Magritte says but it clearly is… and then again it is…
A Venice Retrospective – Two Years Ago, Tintoretto, Titian & Bellini.
It is two years since I was in Venice for the autumn term studying medieval tombs and contemporary art. Pre pandemic it seemed a different time with the only things to worry about being floods and industrial action from the lecturers. Hey Ho – what’s new. But it did make me think about the wonderful…
Bridget Riley talks to Kirsty Walk about her art on television
Compton Verney in Warwickshire provided a very enjoyable visit three years ago, taking in Op Art and some wonderful works by Bridget Riley. Her works were also a very valuable artistic juxtaposition to the Barbara Hepworth retrospective we visited in Wakefield earlier this year. So it was a great delight finding her being interviewed by…
Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon at The Icon Gallery in Birmingham
Shared drawing with paint & ink features in my new header. Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon have been working in collaboration since the 1990s, mainly in sculpture. Their methodology is either to work in the same studio on a sculpture or drawing or exchange versions allowing the work to evolve. I Can’t Stand The Rain is…
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