For a while I have been toying with painting and sculpture in addition to my photography but as a keen amateur artist I have limited time. With the pressures of running a business by day, I don’t have the time to do it all and so something has to give. I will still blog about [...]
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In this BBC series from 2004, Dr Nigel Spivey investigates everything from cave paintings to ceramics, pyramids to palaces and icons to artifacts across five continents and 100,000 years of history. Although this one isn’t available online, you can rent it from LoveFilm (or Netflix) and failing that, it is available in Amazon UK and [...]
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In this BBC series from 2004, Dr Nigel Spivey investigates everything from cave paintings to ceramics, pyramids to palaces and icons to artifacts across five continents and 100,000 years of history. Although this one isn’t available online, you can rent it from LoveFilm (or Netflix) and failing that, it is available in Amazon UK and [...]
Read Full ArticleI found this gem of a clip on YouTube about how the Greek sculptors were the first to use their eyes and create realistic sculptures of the human body, but a generation later, abandoned this altogether to produce exaggerated sculptures of the human body. As Professor Ramachandran explains, within us lies the primal instinct to [...]
Read Full ArticleI think an artist’s value to the rest of the world, is that he uses his eyes, making other people somewhat interested in what he has done, he helps them to use their eyes – Henry Moore, in an interviewed with the BBC
Read Full ArticleIt’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That’s why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, Wired magazine Following on from my post about when is it the right time to [...]
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Sculpture is a fantastic art form which unfortunately isn’t as popular as it should be. If you want to give it a go, how do you go about learning it?
Read Full Article“I had a very strong belief — I still do — that the act of going public is a very important decision. Everything you do from the point when you go public is part of the public record and is out there and you cannot get it back. Anything before the time when you go [...]
Read Full Article“It’s like adding a tail onto an animal painted by Picasso. It’s ridiculous”- Sir Anthony Caro Last week ARTINFO reported that Sir Anthony Caro was caught up in an arguement with auction house bonhams over a sculpture of his, that had been modified by the purchaser but was being sold as his work. Disowning the [...]
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