For me the best horror book is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A story about abandonment, power, beauty and what it truly means to be human. This just scrapes the tip of the iceberg of why the book still haunts me. When you factor in that Shelley was 18 when she wrote it, grieving from a miscarriage,…
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Is art going out of trend?
Art as we know it, as a skill, as an entrance to fame and wealth, as talent with a paintbrush or a way with words, is a much less common practice these days. In our current age, where trends come and go as fast as the rain, the persistence of art is admirable, except that…
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Art Titles: Violin and Sheet Music by Georges Braque
At first, I thought that art titles aren’t very important. Most people forget what the piece is called and end up describing what they can see instead. However, when I started thinking about more than just real-life art, and cast a lens on conceptual art, it is clear that art titles are important. Most of…
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Favourite Art Pieces- The Elephant Celebes (1921) by Max Ernst
What I like in this painting is the vivid imagination in the absurd imagery that is captured. The bold composition in the mechanical elephant highlights the profound sense of consciousness and imagination that blends poetry with perspective. The illusory effect combined with the elements of collage is a radical eye-opener into the effects of war…
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Favourite Art- Two Crabs (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh might seem to be a basic choice, but this summer I got my fill. I went to various different museums, including the National Gallery, the Musée d’Orsay and the Tate, including the special exhibition they are holding called ‘Van Gogh and Britain’. I always marvel at his still life paintings, enchanting night scenes…
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Rewriting Art History with Michelle Hartney
Contextualising the works of chauvinistic artists Picasso and Gaugin, amongst others, Michelle Hartney’s project Separate the Art From the Artist uses the activist writings of Hannah Gadsby and Roxanne Gay to highlight the artists’ misogyny. Hartney contextualises seminal works of Gaugin, Picasso and Balthus, and repositions them in the contexts of the abuse, misogyny and…