An Impassioned Plea |
The Painting of Modern Life, it says. How horrific! If this is the life I am living, then I am opting out. So many veneered images, so many flat vacant paintings. I was saddened and appalled by this s...
Posted by Rebecca on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST |
A Touch of God |
Another question really..
I finished reading Stanley Spencer's Letters and Writings recently. It reminded me of Vincent van Gogh's letters because of the emphasis that they both place on spirituality...
Posted by Rebecca on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:14:00 PST |
A Feeling of Substance |
I have some questions that haven't properly taken form. I've been trying to get myself into a place where I can write about them, but now I think that I might sketch them out a bit anyway, and a start...
Posted by Rebecca on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:28:00 PST |
Paint and Flesh |
Alice NeelMy Mother, 1930
Victoria Miro Gallery, 2007
I have an idea somewhere about Alice Neel's portrait of her mother, and the way the paint was as though it was flesh itself it had a wil...
Posted by Rebecca on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:00:00 PST |
A feeling of being somehow cut off from things |
I've been reading Stanley Spencer's Letters and Writings (ed. Adrien Glew, Tate, 2001):
"I think the idea of progress gives to the student or artist a feeling that his next picture must & will be ...
Posted by Rebecca on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:23:00 PST |
Living Binaries |
These blessed binaries are starting to got a bit overwhelming. I began writing the essay as an analysis of the Learn to Read exhibition, mentioned earlier, through a lens of deconstruction á...
Posted by Rebecca on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:12:00 PST |
Solidus |
I'm still all knotted up over the transformation that occurs when words are taken from their books and hung on the walls of a gallery.
I'm vaguely thinking that Derrida's writing on the Paregon might ...
Posted by Rebecca on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:47:00 PST |
Reading Again |
I'm currently wrestling with an essay on Derrida (What is the metaphysics of presence? How and why is it displaced in and by Derrida's work?). I'm also, in the essay, looking at some of the work in th...
Posted by Rebecca on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:47:00 PST |
Mimesis |
Well, it appears that mimesis is the force behind it all. Ha! Well, that's me being a bit grandiose as ever, but having read a fantastic study of mimesis this week I am still full of the joys of thing...
Posted by Rebecca on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:48:00 PST |
Angry |
I just remembered that meaning in language is not just a little happy effect of looking at words.
I just remembered what it means to be made angry by words. Whatever the linguists and philosophers an...
Posted by Rebecca on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:58:00 PST |
