Sunday, January 14, 2024

a bit of gertrude abercrombie never did any harm ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Abercrombie
Sunday, January 7, 2024

the turkish gun in horse guards parade ... only the barrel is turkish ... the carriage was made in chatham

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This magnificent gun was captured by the British after the siege of Alexandria during the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801, and has been here since ...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

the artist's studio ... let's see what crops up ... i don't think it will be a large set ... i might have to include printers and photographers ... and sculptors ...

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courbet bruno surdo, 1988 leonard foujita, ?1940s? william orpen velazquez,  ... to be continued ...
Friday, December 29, 2023

possibly the painting best-loved by other painters ... Velazquez's Las Meninas ... Picasso almost went mad trying to perform a kind of stylistic autopsy to discover its secrets ... richard hamilton took a more delicately considered look ... and i think he mixed his response to picasso with respect and good-natured derision ...

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the original was painted c1656/1657 picasso had already known the painting for forty or fifty years before he went on his LAS MENINAS binge ...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Blake's Lost & Found painting ...DE ANTRO NYMPHARUM ... Of The Cave Of The Nymphs ... painted in 1821, subject of a daunting 99-page 1963 essay by Kathleen Raine ... and more !

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/27540892 i've taken screenshots of the first four pages in case you need to check out the approachability a...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Harlequin & Colombine ... set ii ... this one might take some time ...

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... to be continued ...