I was intending to write something quite different tonight, but somehow it didn’t happen – mainly because I was looking for a quotation in a book that I couldn’t find (the quotation, not the book) and I got distracted. Perhaps another time. But here is a useful piece of advice (to myself more than anyone [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Painting’
The Violets Raise Their Heads Without Affright : March, by Helen Hunt Jackson
Posted in Arts, Flowers, Nature, Painting, Poetry, tagged Flowers, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mars, Painting, Poetry, Sandro Botticelli, Spring, Violets on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Time for Helen Hunt Jackson’s monthly forecast – she continues her classical theme from February. As you will see, she mentions that, in March, “the violets raise their heads without affright”, and here are what I believe are violet crocuses doing something similar around the edges of the Little Bowden Rec.. March Month which [...]
The Isle of the Dead, by Arnold Böcklin
Posted in Arts, Painting, tagged Arnold Böcklin, Death, Painting on November 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Continuing with this cheery seasonal theme, here is the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead. This painting was originally commissioned by a young widow who “wanted something to dream by“. It enjoyed an enormous vogue in reproduction, becoming, I suppose, the late nineteenth-century German equivalent of Tretchikoff’s Green Girl or Athena’s Tennis Girl. The [...]
David Hockney 1960-1968 : a marriage of styles
Posted in Arts, Dance, Painting, tagged Dancing, David Hockney, Ken Russell, Nottingham Contemporary, Painting, Pauline Boty, Peter Blake on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday this hamster managed to escape from his treadmill for the day and went up to Nottingham to take a squint at the new Nottingham Contemporary art gallery, and its opening exhibition David Hockney 1960-1968 : a marriage of styles. The building itself gets more attractive the closer you get to it – from [...]
Poppies stare death in the face (featuring Thomas Cooper Gotch and Philip Hollobone M.P.)
Posted in Arts, Football, Painting, Politics, Sport, This England, tagged Alfred East Art Gallery, Death, Death the Bride, Football, Kettering Town F.C., Leeds United F.C., Painting, Philip Hollobone, Planning, Poppies, Symbolism on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What, someone might be asking, has happened to the Poppies this season? (Poppies are Kettering Town F.C., the football club I support – they appeared in a couple of posts earlier in the year). On the field, things are going well, thank you - we are third in the table and are through to the second round [...]
All Souls Part 2 – W-A Bouguereau
Posted in Arts, Christianity, Church of England, Painting, Roman Catholicism, tagged All Souls, Charity, Painting, William-Adolphe Bouguereau on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Continuing with this – some might think - slightly morbid theme, here – for your contemplation – is an image relating to All Souls, by the 19th century French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Bouguereau is a much-abused figure – partly because he greatly disliked the Impressionists and the feeling was mutual. John Berger, I seem to [...]
Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar
Posted in Arts, Memory, Painting, Poetry, tagged David Hockney, Memory, Painting, Poetry, Radio Times, Wallace Stevens on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thought for the day from David Hockney, a personal hero of mine – for his dress sense and his general attitude, not to mention his paintings – from the Radio Times (of all places) – “The fact is, we see with memory, which is why none of us sees the same thing, even if we’re [...]
