Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Highlights of All Too Human at Tate Britain

Fantastic pastels by Paula Rego - black lines edging everything. A collection of feet in the centre of this (below).....
The Betrothal Paula Rego
The Deer Park Michael Andrews
S
 Swimming Pool 1971 Leon Kossoff

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Sunday, 4 March 2018

Highlights of the Groeningemuseum, Bruges


Van Eyck
Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele
Joseph Denis Odevaere
Lord Byron on His Death Bed

Judgement paintings hung in courtrooms in medieval times - I didn't know that. This one isn't for the squeamish: The Judgement of Cambyses by Gerard David. Cambyses is being flayed alive. What a truly horrible form of torture.

Flemish primitives i.e. detailed realism in the depiction of materials....
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Reading and watching

  • Foot by Foot to Santiago de Compostela/Judy Foot
  • The Testament of Mary with Fiona Shaw at the Barbican
  • The Testament of Mary/Colm Toibin
  • Schwanengesang/Schubert - Tony Spence
  • Journals/Robert Falcon Scott
  • Fugitive Pieces/Ann Michaels
  • Unless/Carol Shields
  • Faust/Royal Opera House
  • The Art of Travel/Alain de Botton
  • Mad Men Series 6
  • A Week at The Airport/Alain de Botton
  • The Railway Man/Eric Lomax
  • Bright Lights, Big City/Jay McInerney
  • Stones of Venice/John Ruskin
  • The Sea, the Sea/Iris Murdoch
  • Childe Harold/Lord Byron
  • All The Pretty Horses/Cormac McCarthy
  • Extreme Rambling/Mark Thomas
  • Story of my Life/Jay McInerney
  • Venice Observed/Mary McCarthy