Sunday, December 29, 2024

william orpen ... changing billets, picardy, 1918 ... exhibited in 1929 and sold recently at christie's

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https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6506481 an original sketch is kept by the imperial war museum ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS is often told as a children's tale, but was intended as a gentle satire on the adult world of the early 1700s ... REX WHISTLER illustrated it rarther beautifully ... most but not all of his illustrations follow ...

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https://archive.org/details/gulliverstravels0000swif_v2u3/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

An album of SNOW PAINTINGS and PRINTS

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  Stanley BADMIN Stanley SPENCER Pieter BRUEGEL Eyvind EARLE V&A peter brook maxfield parrish ronald lampitt kaoru yamada leo piron ... ...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

A SCRAPBOOK OF THE HUMAN BRAIN ... I read THE PURPOSIVE BRAIN by RAGNAR GRANIT back in the 1970s ... the brain seems to run multiple functions simultaneously of which we aren't properly conscious, until things go wrong ... and I've read other bits and pieces over the years, but I've never consolidated all the stuff I barely understood ... so I'm starting a scrapbook instead of making a scholarly inquiry ...

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Wikipedia provides a well structured introduction ... this in itself, if all the useful links were followed, would keep a serious student bu...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

THE SCROLL OF EIGHTY SEVEN IMMORTALS

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  The “Scroll of Eighty-Seven Immortals” is believed to be a silk line drawing created by Tang-Dynasty artist Wu Daozi (c. AD 680–759). It’s...
Monday, November 11, 2024

a glossary of terms ... a passing interest in the art of jeanne mammen led me to this glossary ... i have copied it from an exhibition catalogue ... i've always shied away from discussions of sexual politics because i am too apathetic to want to impose a view on anyone

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  jeanne mammen self 1926 ... thought to be a self-portrait of jeanne in the foreground, with her sister jeanne's most famous image ... ...
Friday, November 1, 2024

plastic policemen in tibet ...

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sometimes they make do with something more substantial ... more will come, as & when ...