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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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Shelley’s Art Musings – Voluptuous Women in Art
What you probably don’t imagine is a much curvier woman, who has love handles and stretch marks. She doesn’t have the perfect thigh gap, in fact there is probably no gap at all, and her breasts are probably not as perky as you imagined the first woman’s to be. You probably are not thinking that her clothes are a pulling on her hips and that she might look less than perfect. Of course, I might be casting a massive aspersion here, and making the assumption that is how everyone would picture the perfect woman, simply because this is how the media portrays women, to a rather unhealthy level. Women and…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – The great C word…
No, it isn’t what you are thinking, it is the word on everyone’s lips at the moment… Coronavirus. You can barely turn on the TV or the radio or turn to social media without seeing adverts telling you to stay at home, or hearing the dire situation that the world is currently in. What we don’t hear a lot about is the heart-warming stories which have resulted as an outcome. We aren’t seeing how the world has come together as a mass community to work together on controlling this pandemic. Recognition has come the world over, for our health services and front-line workers. We have seen support on mass for those who have had…
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