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Margate Minge

The Margate of my youth was a poorer place without Ms Emin but I am nonetheless delighted to say the working class seaside atmosphere remains.

British Seaside, Margate, Tracey Emin, Working Classes

An Allegory of Man 1596

The painting warns the viewer of the soul’s vulnerability to the vanities of the world. It strikes me as a … More

Christian Morality, Comic Strip, Comics, Devils, Morality, Sin

William West, 1st Lord Delawarr

The somewhat brutal face and the arrogant pose of William West, 1st Lord Delawarr, reassures us that human nature has … More

Hans Holbein the Younger, Holbein, Portrait of a Gentleman, Tate Britain, Tate Gallery

Art as a lens on “reality”.

You may be forgiven for mistaking the image above for photo montage. But it is not: it is the London Mustaba project.

Art, Christo and Jean-Claude, reality, The London Mustaba

Art as metaphysics

I have sometimes wondered whether art has any importance, and if so, what? 

Consciousness, Diana the Huntress, Nature, Qualia, Soul, The London Mustaba
Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent ranks high in my list of favourite painters.

John Singer Sargent
Nu Couché au coussin Bleu, one of the finest examples of reclining nudes by Modigliani, 1916

Art Prices are Obscene .

Art prices at ‘obscene’ levels as Chinese join high-spending elite says Richard Partington, the Guardian’s economics correspondent.

Art Prices, Bishop Michael Curry, Leonardo da Vinci, Modigliani
Rembrandt, Belshazzar's Feast, 1635, (National Gallery, London). The message is written in vertical lines starting at the top right corner, with "upharsin" taking two lines.

Rembrandt – Belshazzar’s feast

Rembrandt – Belshazzar’s feast: the literature, art and music of religion still hold a vast sway over the imagination of many of us.

Bible, Rembrandt, The Writing on the Wall
Van Eyck - Untitled, known in English as The Arnolfini Portrait, The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, The Arnolfini Double Portrait, or Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

Van Eyck – The Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck painted what has become known as the Arnolfini Portrait in 1434.

Arnolfini, Art, Beauty, Bruges, Jan van Eyck, Wealth
Holbein - The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein – The Ambassadors

A rich and engaging portal into the mind of an age emerging into the modern world.

Hans Holbein the Younger

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