Fri 31st Mar, 2006, Surrealism, Turner, Warhol, Bouguereau, Cezanne, Newman, Manet, Braque, Leonardo Da Vinci, Waterhouse, Pollock, De Kooning

The great modern art conspiracy

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“Une âme au ciel” (”A Soul in Heaven”) by William Bouguereau, 1878
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Pretty feisty bunch down at the Art Renewal Centre, where they’re giddily passionate about the 19th-century realists and won’t spare a poop for anything more modern. Cantankerously building barricades in preparation for an anticipated jihad against the Establishment is Fred Ross, the centre’s chairman, who’s got a major rant going on that seems almost perverse in the way it’s trying to turn art history upside down. But, he has his points (and some terrific art to back him up). See the rest.

Thu 26th Jan, 2006, Amazing art, Pollock, De Kooning

Hymn to Hyman Bloom

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Another of my university art-course efforts, but this one’s a copy, from Hyman Bloom’s “Old Woman Dreaming”. I just saw the picture in a book and went at it with charcoal, and it wasn’t until this here blog came along that I made the effort to find out who the hell Hyman Bloom is. Click the image to see it full size. See the rest.