by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | News
Blue is the colour of the gods. Lapis lazuli a semi precious stone, mined since earliest times in China and ground to become Ultra Marine, the finest of Blue pigments, was once so rare that only the most famous artists could afford to use it. Blue is the perceived...
by admin | Jan 28, 2014 | Dance Paintings
I am enjoying the new series on Rococo Art by Waldemar Januszczak. As a lover of the Baroque and the Renaissance, the Rococo is a movement I have often overlooked. At first sight it’s over-ornate extremes alienate it from the modern aesthetic but the...
by admin | Jan 19, 2014 | Abstract Paintings, News
Light is the greatest mystery in the universe. We only perceive the world because of light. Painting is captured light, Turner in particular understood this well and the British have a singular obsession with the fleeting light that is so precious in the long darkness...
by admin | Jan 7, 2014 | News
I am reading Martin Gayford’s wonderful biography of Michelangelo, “His Epic Life” in it he talks about the importance of paper as a catalyst in the birth of the Renaissance. An earlier biographer had also referred to this artist’s life as a “Life lived on...
by admin | Dec 29, 2013 | News
A gift this Christmas offered me a wonderful quote from the French painter Vuillard: “Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is no art without a poetic aim. Theres is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain...
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