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Shelley’s art Musings – Spotlight on William Blake
When I think about William Blake, I instantly think of the film “Red Dragon” – you know the one where the character Francis Dolarhyde is obsessed with the painting and kills his family to try and gain the same strength as the creature depicted. The film was inspired by the book “Red Dragon” by Thomas Harris and was a lead into the Hannibal Lector stories. While this is where the majority of us will recognise the work from, Blake was more than just a painter, he was also a poet and a printmaker, who turned his back on formalised religion and created his own personal complex mythology. Blake was largely…
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Marc Chagall – Le pays qui se trouve en mon âme : la Russie
Le texte ci-dessous est l’extrait du livre Marc Chagall: écrit par Victoria Charles, publié par Parkstone International. Par un de ces curieux renversements de l’histoire qui font d’une destinée d’homme un destin, voici qu’un exilé, mort en exil, retrouve sa terre natale. Depuis l’exposition de ses œuvres organisée en 1987 au musée des BeauxArts Pouchkine à Moscou, qui suscita – nous l’avons constaté une extraordinaire ferveur populaire, Marc Chagall naît une seconde fois. Voici donc que ce peintre, peut-être le plus singulier du XXe siècle, rencontre enfin l’objet de sa quête intérieure : l’amour de « sa Russie ». Ainsi les dernières lignes de Ma Vie, le récit autobiographique que le peintre…
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Spotlight on Marc Chagall
The text below is the excerpt from the book Marc Chagall, written by Victoria Charles, published by Parkstone International. Through one of those curious reversals of fate, one more exile has regained his native land. Since the exhibition of his work at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 1987 and which gave rise to an extraordinary popular fervour, Marc Chagall has experienced a second birth. Here we have a painter, perhaps the most unusual painter of the twentieth century, who at last, attained the object of his inner quest: the love of his Russia. Thus, the hope expressed in the last lines of My Life, the autobiographical narrative which the…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Spotlight on Auguste Rodin
There are many historical events that have happened in November, on the 12th November 1944, 32 British Lancaster bombers finally sank the German battleship, the Tirpitz after 2 years of trying. On the same day in 1946 the first drive through bank was opened in the USA. Also, on this day in 1840 Auguste Rodin was born and would change the face of sculpture for those who would be set to follow. The founder of modern sculpture was born in Paris and was largely self-educated until he attended the Petite Ecole at the 14. He had started to teach himself to draw at the age of 10, which held him…
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Art of Eternal
The text below is the excerpt from the book Art of Eternal, written by Victoria Charles, published by Parkstone International. “To see a world in a grain of sand,And a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour.” — William Blake, Auguries of Innocence The mysterious preoccupation with death and the afterlife has been constantly explored and revisited throughout time. The harsh reality of death and the aging process, act as a foundation for the belief in eternal life. Human beings in hopes of evading death, seek satisfaction in imagining a source that could grant immortality. Throughout time, symbols such as the ‘Fountain of Youth’,…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Banksy macht Wellen in Rom
Das Jahr 2020 geht wirklich nur von einer schwierigen Situation zur nächsten, nicht wahr? Viele Veranstaltungen wurden abgesagt, das Potential der zweiten Welle des Coronavirus ist am Horizont. Es gab merkwürdiges Wetter, Proteste und politische Täuschungsmanöver, was alles zu einem Jahr wie kein anderes für alle weltweit beigetragen hat. Dies hat zum Glück die Kreativität und die von Herzen kommenden Aktionen nicht aufgehalten. Wir haben Menschen gesehen, die Schlüsselmitarbeiter feiern, sich in Einigkeit zusammenschließen, um Black Lives Matter zu unterstützen, und so viele Taten der Freundlichkeit, dass es Individuen zu der Erkenntnis gebracht hat, dass Menschen zu großen Dingen fähig sind, wenn wir aufhören, gegeneinander zu arbeiten. Dieses Jahr hat…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Banksy fait des vagues à Rome.
2020, c’est vraiment passer d’une situation difficile à une autre, n’est-ce pas ? Beaucoup d’événements annulés, le potentiel de la deuxième vague de Coronavirus à l’horizon. Il y a eu des conditions météorologiques bizarres, des protestations et des bêtises politiques, ce qui a contribué à une année sans précédent pour tous dans le monde. Heureusement, cela n’a pas empêché la créativité et les actions sincères d’avoir lieu. Nous avons vu des gens célébrer des travailleurs clés, s’unir pour soutenir Black Lives Matter et tant d’actes de gentillesse que cela a fait prendre conscience aux individus que les humains sont capables de grandes choses si nous cessons de travailler les uns…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Banksy making waves in Rome
2020 is really just going from one difficult situation to another, isn’t it? Many events cancelled, the potential of the second wave of Coronavirus on the horizon. There has been odd weather, protests and political tom foolery, which has all contributed to a year like no other for everyone globally. This thankfully hasn’t stopped creativity and heartfelt actions taking place. We have seen people celebrating key workers, joining in unity to support Black Lives Matter and so many acts of kindness that it has made individuals realise that humans are capable of great things if we stop working against each other. This year certainly hasn’t stopped the artist Banksy from…
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Spotlight on Chaïm Soutine
The text below is the excerpt from the book Chaïm Soutine, written by Klaus H. Carl, published by Parkstone International. Chaïm Soutine was born in 1893 (some biographies cite his year of birth as sometime after 1894) in Smilavichy, a village near the city of Minsk in the current state of Belarus, inhabited at that time by less than a thousand residents. Smilavichy lies in the former Principality of Polotsk, an urban area of the East Slavic Dregowitschi and Kriwitzen that had joined forces with other ethnic groups in the 9th century. This area formed the basis of the Old Russian state of Kievan Rus’, and belonged from the 14th-16th century to…
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Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943)
Le texte ci-dessous est l’extrait du livre Chaïm Soutine (ISBN: 9781785250439 ): écrit par Klaus H. Carl, publié par Parkstone International. Chaïm Soutine est né en 1893 (certaines biographies situent parfois son année de naissance après 1894), à Smaliavitchy, un village situé à proximité de la ville deMinsk, dans l’actuelle Biélorussie, et qui comptait à l’époque moins de mille habitants. Smaliavitchy se trouve dans l’ancienne principauté de Polotsk, une zone urbaine dans la région slave orientale contrôlée par les clans Dregowitchi et Kriwitzen qui avaient uni leurs forces avec d’autres groupes ethniques au IXe siècle. Cette région a constitué la base de la Russie kiévienne, ayant appartenu du XIVe au XVIe siècle…
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