Tuesday, October 29, 2024

SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN ... one of the most extraordinary architectural commissions EVER was the building of churches in London after the Great Fire ... in an extraordinary sequel, many of them had to be re-built after the Blitz in World War 2

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christopher_Wren_churches_in_London Wren took on the supervision of this project when he was thirty-...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

magritte's EMPIRE OF LIGHT paintings ... he painted many versions ... gonna have to put them in order ... and find some links to essays ...

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1953 or 1954 https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2594 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_of_Light https://www.sfmoma.org/read/its-being...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

LAURIE LIPTON ... i feel compelled to begin a scrapbook of some of her pieces ... to be continued "as & when" ... i had glimpsed her work before, but had dismissed it as lurid sensationalism, at a glance ...

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The Fates https://vimeo.com/153092461 https://vimeo.com/179657268   etc, etc ... but prolifically ...
Friday, October 18, 2024

carlos relvas ... prolific glass-plate photographer, owner of the most wonderful studio ... free spirit, maybe

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDeR_2ggV9w https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Relvas ...  to be continued ... possibly, maybe ...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

glyn philpot ...

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ever since i owned a computer, i've spent ages hunting for images of paintings i like, and as the years go by so better quality images b...
Friday, October 4, 2024

a link to KATHLEEN RAINE's short book about WILLIAM BLAKE

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https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.240977/mode/2up?view=theater  
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

dino valls ... i had never heard of him until five minutes ago ... i am wondering how to begin to untangle his narratives ... so much might be lost in translation

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https://medinart.eu/works/dino-valls/ https://onarto.com/dino-valls-avant-garde-figurative-painter/ https://theoriginalvangoghsearanthology....
Sunday, September 29, 2024

the wastewater filtration plant at eastbourne ... i was reminded of it when i saw this picture of the fortress at deal ...

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although i first set eyes on the eastbourne poo palace many years ago, it had never occured to me that this is just the superstructure of a...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

wimmin in white ... part XX ... the eternal scrapbook ...

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      ... to be continued, as & when, in Part XXI, beginning 2nd March 2025 ...