It’s not really my 500th post – that was yesterday, but I wanted to commemorate the Titanic. I have been playing around with WordPress’ slide show tutorial and I thought what could be more fitting than to try to make a slide show of some of the items I have featured on my blog so far. Starting inContinue reading “My 500th post”
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300 Posts and Still Celebrating!
Let the celebrations continue – that’s what I say! Amongst my categories are ‘Potty about Teapots’, this is where I try to find unusual teapots that have particularly unusual and aesthetically pleasing designs (in my opinion), or they are made from unusual materials. ‘Bronte Bites’ are little snippets about the Bronte’s that I find interesting. Continue reading “300 Posts and Still Celebrating!”
Transcription: Paula Rego’s ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ Page 51 and 52, Cutouts
It’s been ages since I put any transcription on. So – Page 51 and 52 Continuing with the sinsister shadow theatre idea from Paula Rego’s’Snow White and her Stepmother’, I played about with the cutouts so I got this – These are the last images in the first book (two journals stuck together). The next artist I researchedContinue reading “Transcription: Paula Rego’s ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ Page 51 and 52, Cutouts”
Transcription: ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego, page 50
Continuing with my transcription of Paula Rego’s ‘Snow White and her Stepdaughter’ page 50 This page continues from the sinster shadow theatre, where I explored the similarities of Katherina Fritsch’s Rattenkonig (Rat King 1993 – 1994) with page 49 I then linked this with Robert Browning’s poem ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. Imagination can playContinue reading “Transcription: ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego, page 50”
My 180th Post: A Labour of Love? or a Love of Wittering on?
Well its my 180th post! I have only missed 4 days since I started at the end of November last year. What do I find to write about every day? Well, not a lot sometimes I admit, but I still manage a paragraph or two. What do I expect to gain from doing it? IContinue reading “My 180th Post: A Labour of Love? or a Love of Wittering on?”
Transcription: ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego, Page 49 The Sinister Shadow Theatre continued
Continuing with the Sinister Shadow theatre (Page 49 of my transcription of Paula Rego’s ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’) ‘The German artist Katherina Fritsch’s powerful spatially dominant sculpture ‘Rattenkonig’ (Rat King) 1993 -94 is the product of a very ordinary experience which the artist had in a large city (at the back of New YorkContinue reading “Transcription: ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego, Page 49 The Sinister Shadow Theatre continued”
My 170th Post! Transcription: Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego, Page 46 -48 The Sinister Shadow Theatre continued
I celebrate my 170th post today and still I’m not at the end of my transcription…… Continuing with my transcription on Paula Rego’s ‘Snow ‘White and her Stepmother. I am now coming to the part where I cncentrate on the Stepmothers arms. I call this the Sinister Shadow Theatre’ The scarey trees in DisneyContinue reading “My 170th Post! Transcription: Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego, Page 46 -48 The Sinister Shadow Theatre continued”
Transcription: Snow White and her Stepmother by Paula Rego page 40 – 45 ‘The Sinister Shadow Theatre’
Continuing with my transcription of Paula Rego’s ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’. This is page 40. I am concentrating now on the hands of the stepmother: page 41 Note how the stepmother’s hands are both grasping and exploring in an almost gloating way:- Sillouettes of these hands form a sinister shadow theatre:- Continue reading “Transcription: Snow White and her Stepmother by Paula Rego page 40 – 45 ‘The Sinister Shadow Theatre’”
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