As I explained in my previous two posts on the subject, I’ve really been enjoying creating artistic responses as part of the required assignments for my Coursera course in art history. The final one was based around Velazquez’s work, Las Meninas, which you can see here. It’s a complicated work, featuring a circuit of gazes, […]
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Responding using Art 2
As I explained in my post last week, I’ve been working on assignments for an online course about art history, and trying to use these assignments as a springboard back into artistic practice. For the second assignment, we were instructed to choose an object or an image, turn it into something else, then turn it […]
Responding using Art 1
I’ve been doing an online course through Coursera for the past few weeks, looking at how artists and animators can use an awareness of art history to enrich their own practice. This is partly because I teach Contextual Studies at work, and also because I miss art historical practice. My undergraduate degree is in art […]
Tales of my London Trip: Part II
Yesterday I posted part one of my write-up of my recent London trip, talking about Saturday 16 March, and the entry was getting a bit long so I decided to split it in two and put the events of Sunday 17th into a separate entry. Sunday saw us check out of our hotel and take […]
Tales of my London Trip: Part I
It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally gotten around to sorting out my photographs from my trip to London last weekend. I wanted to celebrate my birthday but I prefer weekends away to nights out, and there was an exhibition I wanted to see at the Museum of London, so the destination choice was […]
Culture Cuts
I’ve been annoyed for quite some time about the plummeting status of culture and the arts in the UK, and the growing clamour for better funding for sport following the success of the Olympics has further demonstrated the divide between those who think the arts are important, and those who don’t. It’s become particular apparent […]
