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| Just back from a great day iin London looking at contemporary art in small private galleries. It really opened my eyes about how you appreciate this up-to-date art. Our guide was a practising artist and a good one at that. Enjoy your summer. Think of me when you on holiday - I have a 10,000 word dissertation to write. | | |
| I had a wonderful time in Italy. Good friends, good company and great art. The weather was excellent - not too hot and it didn't rain at all. Got to visit lots of places that I hadn't been before and avoided lots of places with too many tourists. Only limited incidents of being mistaken for German tourist - once being misidentified on the basis of comfortable shoes! Did not want to go home - but I am back and have finished that architecture term paper. Went to the cinema and saw the Lives of Others last night which won an Oscar for best film not in the English language. It was brilliant and I would really recommend it. | | |
| Had a great day today. Often art historians can be blaise about the methods that artists employ. This weekend is an attempt to show us how difficult the process of engraving and printmaking can be. It is so hard. My admiration for the work of William Hogarth who must have spent hours and hours creating his wonderful prints. His work has so many parallels for our society as well. check out the exhibition at www.tate.org.uk/britain We looked around the exhibition. Had a very good lecture on Hogarth's technique. Then went back into the exhibition to look at details that we could draw and make into prints. I drew a manic madman who was pretending to be the Pope. Then used a sharp tool to mark lines into a silvered piece of card. This was then inked and then scrapped off of excess ink and then put under the press. It was brilliant seeing the finished image. Mine wasn't too great, but it was good to be creative. Tomorrow we are spending the whole day etching onto copper. I will report back. | | |
| Someone told me once that you make your own luck. Had a great day yesterday at the Tate looking at the role of the curator and the institution in making decisions in the gallery. Feel much better about the next essay now. Mary makes things much clearer than others. Spent today in the library - well not the library since it was shut when I went - I now know not to go too early first thing on a Sunday morning (I couldn't face church) and I was so far behind with the research for this essay. The reading room in college was locked so the nice girl on reception found me a room and I worked all afternoon in there and wrote about 800 words. Got bored about 3.45 and wandered down to the Ashmolean to see their new British prints and watercolours - ran into Henrietta Gill who introduced me to the Development Director..what a find. Had tea with him and Henrietta. Home for supper and rubbish TV. A great weekend. | | |
| My sincere apologies for not posting for such a long time. Very busy. Got an extension with my term paper but that means that the next one will have a shorter lead in time. Went to see the David Hockney Exhibiton at the National Portrait Gallery today. Not sure that I liked all of his work but he is a great artist and he can draw beautifully. | | |
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