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The Painted Page : Folio Society Gallery@ British Library

Posted in Art, British Library, Exhibitions, Illuminated Manuscripts, Imagery, London, Manuscripts, Medieval Art, Middle Ages, Social History, Virtual Gallery on December 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Right now the Painted Page exhibition at the new Folio Society Gallery @ the British Library is showing Images of medieval life in the Luttrell Psalter. You can view the original 13th Century illuminated mansuscript in the John Ritblat Gallery also at the BL.
The exhibition uses a mix of facsimile images of the manuscript + [...]

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Bill Viola@ Haunch of Venison: Love/Death The Tristan Project

Posted in Art, Bill Viola, Exhibitions, London, Musings on July 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Love/Death: The Tristan Project

Now showing for free – at two venues: Haunch of Venison Yard and St. Olaf’s College – Tooley St. ( or what used to be the College) [ Adjacent to Tower Bridge Rd, London, SE1 2JR - nearest tube is London Bridge]
The Love/Death: Tristan Project is a twelve piece collaborative project [...]

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Undercover Surrealism

Posted in Art, Exhibitions, London, Surrealism on June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Undercover Surrealism explores the ’subversive climate’ of the dark undercurrent within Surrealism in the late 1920’s spearheaded by Georges Bataille. The exhibition draws together work by Picasso, Miro, Masson, Giacometti as well as imagery from the magazine Bataille edited from 1929 to 1930 called DOCUMENTS :
“..a shocking and bizarre juxtaposition of art, ethnography, archaeology and [...]

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Satirical London: 300 years of irreverent images

Posted in Art, Exhibitions, London on June 19, 2006 | 6 Comments »

“Anything sharp or severe is called a Satyr” : Cocker’s English Dictionary 1704.
“..an exhibition of visual satire produced in and about London over three centuries. In this period the form of satire has changed radically, from popular individual engravings to newspaper cartoons and television.
Some images are produced by amateurs, others by leading artists such [...]

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Photomontage at the Getty

Posted in Art, Exhibitions, Getty, Los Angeles, Musings, Photography on June 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage 1920 – 1938 is currently exhibiting at the Getty Center. An illustration of the power of images and imagery. Heartfield worked in Germany and Czechoslovakia between the World Wars, using his medium to represent the chaos – social and political instability of the time.
The exhibition is running till [...]

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Rossetti’s Regina Cordium

Posted in Art, Imagery, Rossetti, Virtual Gallery on June 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Painted in 1866 – Oil on Canvas.
Regina Cordium translates as "Queen of Hearts" and the model – Alice Wilding- was one Rossetti painted frequently. 
From the BBC's Painting Flowers virtual gallery. 

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