Wednesday, April 30, 2014

3BT

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Emerging victorious from a winding race against imagined rivals, my truck flies up through the damp and shivery bluebelled woods on the wes...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

art and politics ( part 99 ) thomas hobbes' leviathan ... first and second version frontispieces ... look at the little figures that "constitute" the big one

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

i'll be more than happy to sell you the franchise on alvi's artistic output for one million dollars ... cash !

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Friday, April 25, 2014

you never told me your granny had been an artist's model ...

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Monday, April 21, 2014

supper at emmaus ... veronese's version is just a little bit like hello magazine for the late 1550's, i'm assuming most of the figures are the unknown patron's family

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titian ... 1530 tintoretto ... 1542 veronese ... 1559 caravaggio ... 1601 ...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

waiting for the veronese exhibition to open on saturday morning ... why? oh why didn't i bring my snorkel and flippers ?

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

I apologize ...

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if you have received an inappropriate e-mail from me ... i appear to have been hacked ... i'll lay low for a few days and change my pass...
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20 years ago, or more ! sandi blake ran up three plain canvas panels to cover the lower part of a bay window in a basement flat in hove ... and asked me to decorate them ... NOW !!!, she said ... expediency led me to steal, shamelessly, from other people's ideas ... so, apologies to matisse and duncan grant are long overdue ... and then she moved out, so i took 'em back !

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

one of my favourite fillums ...

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... and one of my favourite paintings

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saturday morning bliss after a physically and mentally exhausting week ... sitting in a sunny window to write in peace, perfect peace !

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Saturday, April 5, 2014

i may have to travel some distance to get a decent game of polo ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSxHZK2pruA
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Monday, March 31, 2014

feeding time in the primates' enclosure

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... many thanx to janet for the lovely picture
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

in highgate cemetery

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Friday, March 28, 2014

joe hyam, late of tunbridge wells ... i'll never meet a sweeter man

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

chancing on the derveni krater's very existence, i was so impressed by this writer that i went online & bought the book ... it was quite hard to find, and very easy for the shippers to lose, but i've just rescued it from the local sorting office ... battered but invitingly readable

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derveni_krater i couldn't find or obtain the book...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

an aesthete rampages through the national portrait gallery

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

i cannot subdue my sporting instincts ... please, please, please will someone lend me an elephant ? or a pony ? on second thoughts ... it had better be the elephant

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

that's 64 years running i've missed the fallas in valencia ... maybe next year !

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallas
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