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A graduate of the Slade, Alice has painted and written about art all her life. With her children now having now grown up and departed the nest, she recently took up sculpture. More Posts

My art week

My best achievement this week was working out what a NFT (non fungible token) is. It’s basically a piece of digital art which you can own by a token but anyone can view. It’s leading exponent Beeple achieved $69m for Yesterday’s in auction the other week. I have 3 main reservations. [...]

March 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

Monday’s edition of the Collector series which I so enjoy on Sky Arts featured Frank Cohen, an engaging man who started as a market trader and ended up with 16 drapery shops which he sold out profitably. He then built up a collection of modern British art. He was different from the other [...]

March 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

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My art week.

A diverse art week this time. It started on Monday when the Collector series on Sky Arts featured David Lewis who had used his fortune made in property to start a collection with his wife Hannah. They began in the 1970s and their collection included a Pierre Bonnard, Van Dyck and other old Masters. [...]

March 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

My week in art

This week we studied on our course  English art in the eighteenth century and I watched a Sky Arts programme on Collectors. Our tutor is always proficient in putting art in context. In studying English 18th century art she put it in its historical context of the voyages of discovery of Captain [...]

February 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

This week we studied surrealism in our art course, there arrived the catalogue of Christie’s for their modern art sale on March 1st and the series on Sky Arts Artists in Love featured Amedeo Modigliani and his lover Jeanne Hebuterne. Surrealism in a sentence is the artistic expression of the [...]

February 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

This week we studied in our art class Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Lee Miller in our Tuesday class and French 18th Century art in our Thursday class. I also watched on Monday Britain’s Lost Masterpieces on BBC4 Our art tutor praised Marcel Duchamp as the second most important artist of the [...]

February 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

Last week I watched a SKY ARTS programme on Salvador Dali, and my art courses were on Dadaism and the Grand Tour. Ostensibly there is nothing to link  all three. Indeed in their attack on Capitalism the Dadaists and Dali were polar opposites. There is however – as I shall show – strong [...]

February 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Plus ca change…

One of the fascinations of art is the paradox that it’s always evolving with new movements but certain themes remain constant. In our art course this week we studied the final two of the abstract pathfinders (Kandinsky was the first) Malevich and Mondrian. Malevich was born in Belarus but [...]

January 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

What is art appreciation?

My two art courses are under way – one on Tuesday on The Road To Modernism and the other on Thursday a more leisurely tour over the last five centuries of art. On Tuesday we studied Kandinsky. Our art tutor said that he, Malevich and Mondrian were the pathfinders to abstraction and asserted: [...]

January 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

Girl with a Pearl Earring (the film)

I was underwhelmed by the film of the book. Speaking to resident Rust film critic Neil Rosen he asserted that this is quite normal and the only improvement of a film on a book was in his view The Godfather Part 1.  The warning signs are in the credits if  “based on the novel” appears and [...]

January 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

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