Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Apparently he was friends with Blake. Actually I suppose that makes sense
Flaxman's portrait of Blake - Graphic Arts
www.princeton.edu
luka
Well-known member
a gentle, sensitive correction.
Corpsey
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Book of Ruth:
The great and golden rule of art, as well as of life, is this: That the more distinct, sharp, and wirey the bounding line, the more perfect the work of art; and the less keen and sharp, the greater is the evidence of weak imitation, plagiarism, and bungling…. What is it that builds a house and plants a garden, but the definite and determinate? What is it that distinguishes honesty from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions. Leave out this line and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again. . .
The great and golden rule of art, as well as of life, is this: That the more distinct, sharp, and wirey the bounding line, the more perfect the work of art; and the less keen and sharp, the greater is the evidence of weak imitation, plagiarism, and bungling…. What is it that builds a house and plants a garden, but the definite and determinate? What is it that distinguishes honesty from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions. Leave out this line and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again. . .
Murphy
cat malogen
Corpsey
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Odilon Redon - Wikipedia
A favourite of mine
Corpsey
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Peter Howson: My work is quite full-on - BBC News
The 65-year-old Scottish artist says he was glad to get home after visiting his own exhibition.
www.bbc.com
Is it just me or does this guy suck?
jenks
thread death
When I was in Madrid I was struck by how much I enjoyed the Tiepolos and Veroneses . Artists I had tended to breeze past on the way to Valasquez and Goya etc somehow not quite of the first rank when placed next to Titian and Rembrandt.
The more I spent time with them, the more they revealed. Not quite as soft and soapy as I first thought. In fact I was struck by just how modern they felt. I went and looked at the ones in the National the other day - they’ve only got some small Tiepolos but they’ve got a great room of Veroneses that no one is looking at - which was a shame but great for me.
Now I’ve just started Callaso’s Tiepolo Pink, his book on Baudelaire was one of my reads of the year a while back.
www.penguin.co.uk
The more I spent time with them, the more they revealed. Not quite as soft and soapy as I first thought. In fact I was struck by just how modern they felt. I went and looked at the ones in the National the other day - they’ve only got some small Tiepolos but they’ve got a great room of Veroneses that no one is looking at - which was a shame but great for me.
Now I’ve just started Callaso’s Tiepolo Pink, his book on Baudelaire was one of my reads of the year a while back.
Tiepolo Pink
'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe' The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of the dark, bizarre...
www.penguin.co.uk
