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Two Medusas

04 Sunday Nov 2018

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                       One by Damien Hirst – the other considerably older. 

                        (Ashmolean)

                       Photos by Candia Dixon- Stuart

Descent Into Limbo

18 Thursday Oct 2018

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Human compulsion –

to be drawn to Vantablack;

to plumb abysses

of consciousness, as the man

who plunged down a hole,

painted by Anish Kapoor.

Should artists foresee

some will interpret the world

so two-dimensionally?

Lost in abstraction,

this viewer interacted;

tested his viewpoint.

Curiosity leads to

empirical challenges.

 

 

 

 

Art That Doesn’t Work

08 Monday Oct 2018

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When you feel ill and spend all Saturday painting a Gaudi House and then

hate it, scrub it all out and freely paint into the mess that is left on the

canvas.

Suddenly, you see Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn.  Why?  Or is it Kate Moss?

The frustrations of trying to be an artist…