Feel the fear and paint it
Marion Milner, a celebrated child psychoanalyst wrote of her own creative anxieties in her book On Not Being Able to Paint (Heineman, 1950, but still… Read More »Feel the fear and paint it
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The mind in another cave
Another early scratching of an early human endeavouring to capture the external world has been found in Wales (2011). What was this person thinking, and… Read More »The mind in another cave
Physics Envy: or why art theory isn’t
The September issue of Frieze art magazine is all about ‘theory’ or what appears to pass for theory in the art world. The whole issue… Read More »Physics Envy: or why art theory isn’t
Tu m’: me pense que…
“Tu m’” by Marcel Duchamp is a good example of how this artist played with our sensibilities. Karl Gerstner, in his Puzzle Upon Puzzle, which… Read More »Tu m’: me pense que…
The arrow of time & art
Image via Wikipedia Should we see art history as linear, with the phases, fads and movements embedded in the moment, or can we continue to… Read More »The arrow of time & art
All that is real, isn’t, really
Image via Wikipedia I am still trying to make sense of Malevich. His book, commented on in an earlier posting, published in English in 1959,… Read More »All that is real, isn’t, really
Art & Economics: Bruno Frey
Bruno Frey writes about the economics of art. His work is provocative and challenges many assumptions about how the art world operates. I quite like… Read More »Art & Economics: Bruno Frey
Abts, Hodgkin, Rothko, Twombly, Newman & Chou En-Lai
Today I’m thinking about the work of Tomma Abts and her highly geometric abstractions. Her colours are delightfully muted. I am thinking about whether I… Read More »Abts, Hodgkin, Rothko, Twombly, Newman & Chou En-Lai