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RA Summer Show « Art Attack
https://lucyrichmond.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/ra-summer-show
The Royal Academy in London’s Summer Exhibition shows work by members, stars of British art (I ignored them), and by the public who submit works to a committee. I was expecting paintings of the south of France. With purple shadows but there weren’t any. There were a few lame attempts at surrealism (side-lit mazes, men flying away on bunches of balloons, kind of thing). And one or two in hyper-realist mode ( You could pick it off the canvas! Ken Howard is still doing the Euston Road grid (. By Stephen Wal...
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Richard Long « Art Attack
https://lucyrichmond.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/richard-long-2
Long namechecks Stonehenge and Glastonbury too. Early man really did make giant marks on the landscape all around Stonehenge. He quotes Johnny Cash I walk the line . A Line Made by Walking is quintessential Long, the line that leads from the viewer straight into infinity. The old, straight track, the narrow road to the deep north that we feel we should be walking on, away from rampant consumerism and materialism and into the purity of nature. He also creates paintings fingerpainted out of mud drips and s...
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Polish Contemporary « Art Attack
https://lucyrichmond.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/polish-contemporary
Take a Look at Me Now: Contemporary Art from Poland,. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,. University of East Anglia, Norwich, June 2-August 30. He photographs colourful 60s slab blocks. In one, the exterior of each flat has been painted a different shade of the Dulux chart, so that lime-yellow fades to apricot through magenta. The normally coloured inhabitants get on with their lives: hanging out the washing. Is a collection of Hopper-like photos of Poland at night, featuring neon and tarmac. The chairs a...
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richmonde « Art Attack
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Long namechecks Stonehenge and Glastonbury too. Early man really did make giant marks on the landscape all around Stonehenge. He quotes Johnny Cash I walk the line . A Line Made by Walking is quintessential Long, the line that leads from the viewer straight into infinity. The old, straight track, the narrow road to the deep north that we feel we should be walking on, away from rampant consumerism and materialism and into the purity of nature. He also creates paintings fingerpainted out of mud drips and s...
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2009 June 04 « Art Attack
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Take a Look at Me Now: Contemporary Art from Poland,. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,. University of East Anglia, Norwich, June 2-August 30. He photographs colourful 60s slab blocks. In one, the exterior of each flat has been painted a different shade of the Dulux chart, so that lime-yellow fades to apricot through magenta. The normally coloured inhabitants get on with their lives: hanging out the washing. Is a collection of Hopper-like photos of Poland at night, featuring neon and tarmac. The chairs a...
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2009 June 08 « Art Attack
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Long namechecks Stonehenge and Glastonbury too. Early man really did make giant marks on the landscape all around Stonehenge. He quotes Johnny Cash I walk the line . A Line Made by Walking is quintessential Long, the line that leads from the viewer straight into infinity. The old, straight track, the narrow road to the deep north that we feel we should be walking on, away from rampant consumerism and materialism and into the purity of nature. He also creates paintings fingerpainted out of mud drips and s...
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2009 June 03 « Art Attack
https://lucyrichmond.wordpress.com/2009/06/03
The Royal Academy in London’s Summer Exhibition shows work by members, stars of British art (I ignored them), and by the public who submit works to a committee. I was expecting paintings of the south of France. With purple shadows but there weren’t any. There were a few lame attempts at surrealism (side-lit mazes, men flying away on bunches of balloons, kind of thing). And one or two in hyper-realist mode ( You could pick it off the canvas! Ken Howard is still doing the Euston Road grid (. By Stephen Wal...
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