Watts Minotaur
My drawing of Mino getting fresh with Clyt
I was going to throw in him most famous 'Hope' which is also beautiful - have her a bit like 'while rome burned' kind of thing hovering above them but i ran out of space and time.
Friday, July 29, 2011
My visit to Watts Gallery, Surrey
Very inspiring. Is it just me or is the minotaur a bit sexy in a brutish way? Watts would have hated what i did with it - he had much higher moral/classical meanings. The minotaur was classical figure that young men were annually sacrificed to. His cruel left hand has squashed a small bird. Watts did it when he heard of the problem of child prostitutes in london in the late 19th century. Clytie is turning into something, can't remember - i saw his sculpture of it at the V&A Cult of Beauty exh, the white marble version. His gallery has a black bronze version. The way she twists her body and throws back her body is beautiful and it just seemed to go with Mr sexy bull.
Watts Minotaur
Watts Clytie
Clyt, Mino and me having afternoon cream tea
My drawing of Mino getting fresh with Clyt
I was going to throw in him most famous 'Hope' which is also beautiful - have her a bit like 'while rome burned' kind of thing hovering above them but i ran out of space and time.
It is a beautiful work though - she listens closely as she tries to pluck the one remaining string of her old harp - now that's hope for you - there have been many tribute pics done - one latest one is of Obama as hope.
Watts Minotaur
My drawing of Mino getting fresh with Clyt
I was going to throw in him most famous 'Hope' which is also beautiful - have her a bit like 'while rome burned' kind of thing hovering above them but i ran out of space and time.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
my hallway
Works from top left - of 12 works, 6 are mine;
1. drawing bought in st ives
2. just under it - a charcoal landscape copy i did last yr
3. my first oil portrait done in 2009/10 copy of a known artist
4. photshoped layered pic of john
5. nude white chalk on black paper i did last year
6. under oil portrait - watercolour and charcoal copy of same landscape at no 2
7. drawing of kim i did using grid method
8. framed birthday card from john - beautiful cutout book artists - i was doing book making at the time
9. under no 5. drawing i bought in hastings because it looked like me in my 20s thinking in the uni caf
10. bottom left - very bright acrylic by an 8yr old that i bought in hastings gallery - i am going to follow him and his brother
11. my portrait teacher sells his work for 1000s. Even his print in royal academy summer exh this yr was £300. So i got him to demonstrate for me and i kept his demo -you can see where i got style of some of my portraits from.
12. small life drawing i bought from a friends exh in hastings - 2 people enveloped in each other so their heads become one beautiful tangle of lines
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