i don't know if this is or isn't a genuine laura knight painting ... the auctioneer's description seems to allow for doubt ...

 

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/26662/lot/35/follower-of-dame-laura-knight-ra-rws-british-1877-1970-examining-the-etchings/

THE SIXTH SENSE ... balance and movement... or gravity and acceleration ... and some artist's endeavours ...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

paul klee

goya

domenico tiepolo

pablo picasso 1906

unknown artist c/o library of congress

georges seurat

clarence carter

a plaque in the walters museum

gilroy

raeburn's painting of the reverend scott

domenico tiepolo

sir john tenniel 

unknown artist in china, late 18th C

artist as yet unknown ... to be researched later

sir john tenniel, alice ...

artist to come later ...

artist to come later ...

wilkinson ???, 1940s

karel dujardin, 1663

charles avery, 2020

camille hilaire, 1974

poussin, blind orion, date ????

remedios varo, 1964,  naturaleza muerta resucitando

eberhard schlotter,   don quixote,    1983

anthony groves-raines, 1939

lizzie riches, 2018

gino severini,  1928

... to be continued ...

THE HARROWING OF HELL ... scrapbook in progress

THE HARROWING OF HELL is a bit of Christian theology that wasn’t talked about much while I was at school, each of my schools in Malmesbury being under the guardianship of the Anglican Church.

However, for many people in other churches, the Saturday before Easter Sunday, sometimes called Easter Eve, the full day that stands between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, is an occasion of much ceremony, both mournful and rejoicing.

This is the day when Christ is supposed to have descended, briefly, in to Hell.

For artists, it was a subject offering great scope for their imaginations.

Albrecht Durer made two prints of this subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell#:~:text=In%20Christian%20theology%2C%20the%20Harrowing,of%20Jesus%20and%20his%20resurrection.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=HARROWING

... to be continued ...

SPHINX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx

 

... to be continued ...