I was in St Omer, and so decided to drop in on the Sandelin Museum to see what was on show. (http://www.musenor.com/Les-Musees/Saint-Omer-Musee-de-l-Hotel-Sandelin/, URL Viewed 22/08/2016). Most of the exhibit of relevance to the course were the paintings, of which there are many excellent old French masterpieces on display. There is also a large number of ceramics pieces, sculptures and religious objects. Continue reading “Visit: Saint-Omer, Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin”
I was going to Oxford and managed to make sure I had a few hours clear to visit the Ashmolean Museum whilst I was there. So much that I’ve seen, so where to start? The “Monkey Tales” Exhibition (http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/easternart/2016/07/11/monkey-tales-apes-and-monkeys-in-asian-art-2/, URL Viewed 23/07/2016) seems like a good place. This gave me the chance to see some excellent Chinese brush painting up close. (e.g. Three gibbons swinging on a tree branch, Chen Wen His (1906-1992)) painted c. 1980. Continue reading “Visit: Ashmolean Museum”
Carrying on from my consideration of Jackson Pollock and Modern Art in “Modernism in Dispute” [Wood, 1993]. I found the statement, p172, about Saraband (Plate 140) and Bloom (Plate 141) being painted within a year of each other, and one or two years before the first publication of ‘Modernist Painting’:
The two works… are painted in acrylics. Unlike Oils acrylics will retain a high degree of saturation in relatively liquid form … both paintings which exploit the properties of what was at the time a relatively new medium.
I’m a little behind on posting my coursework to the Blog. I’ve had a few tries at these exercises and am yet to be happy with them. This is a revisit of the contour drawing for Project 1.2. Still a way to go. Continue reading “Project 1.2: Contour Drawing Revisited”
I was in the area, and so decided to visit the Ruthin Craft Centre. My wife had visited the previous week and seen some good work, but they’d changed the exhibitions during the intervening time. The visit wasn’t a waste from a study viewpoint though. I was very impressed with Julia Griffiths Jones‘ Room within a Room. Continue reading “Visit: Room within a room”
That was an odd Journey. I started looking at the Tom Marioni and Rachel Evans in preparation for the second half of Project 0.3. More of that later. Rachael’s work lead me to considering Andrew Goldsworthy, which lead me to the Visual Melt web site. (Hang on I’m getting there.) At the bottom of the Visual Melt pages they include images from other artists, which you can click on to get to more images from the artist. (A dangerous site if you’re short on time.) One Artist that particularly caught my eye was Warwick Goble.
The following seems to be a typical piece of work:
http://childhoodreading.com/the-star-lovers/The Star Lovers by Grace James, Illustrated by Warwick Goble. URL Viewed 13/06/2016
David Howard, OCA Drawing 1 