cerishields.bsky.social
Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors.
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(I admit that Reynolds is not usually the first painter I hurry to see in a gallery but he usually turns out better than I expect. What 1940s film star would not be pleased with this as their publicity headshot?)
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Allow me to introduce you to his son, Eric.
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Bellini and Holbein are a great start to an art education. Especially if the Holbein book included some of his drawings, preferably in colour.
And if you liked Jane Austen then Reynolds would be (approximately) helpful in clothing the characters in your mind’s eye.
Not the worst school library 🙂
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Mary Trump is literally eating popcorn on her YouTube channel 🍿 😂
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😳
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If you go to HMV in Oxford Street you could take the opportunity to also pop in to a big M&S and purchase a nice sober 40-something’s sweater, unavailable online while their cyber woes continue. Hope this suggestion is helpful 🙂
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We don’t really do bumper stickers much in the UK but I saw my second apologetic ‘I bought this before Elon went crazy’ sticker on a Tesla a couple of weeks ago. (The first is on my wheelbarrow.)
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Sometimes desire paths are forged not because of laziness but rather superstition...
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A very beautiful thing is that Musk spent $200 million to help get Trump elected in order to put the fortunes of his companies into the hands of Trump and his temperamental mood swings. Like placing fragile items on the table your cat is sitting on. Musk paid cash for this.
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I mean, Trump and Musk could easily be back in bed together next week. They are both so erratic and bonkers. Or Musk reveals some *actual* damning data and Trump has him chained and deported. In this B-movie anything is possible.
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A hilarious thing is that Musk thought the hugeness of his spending on Trump’s behalf was buying him a special higher level of loyalty from Trump — a man who has never shown even the most basic loyalty to anyone ever in his life.
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He’s being heavily sardonic. Don’t worry, he agrees with you (and me) about this 🙂
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Bless their little hearts, the most predicted break up in the history of bromance 😂
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Just last week in-the-know peeps on podcasts were saying, no, they haven’t fallen out, Elon and Donnie really, really like each other, Musk is just stepping back to spend more time with his companies, but this is not the big bust-up everyone predicted from the start, no sir.
Hee-hee
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I haven’t eaten popcorn in years but I’m fixin some today!!
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No. I had a very stilted upbringing which meant I arrived at A-level quite hot on Turner watercolour technique and Leonardo drawings but utterly ignorant about vast areas of art and asking questions like, ‘Picasso? What’s that?’
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You don’t think that just when Simone Martini was putting so much labour into getting good at painting hands he’d have been pleased with the idea he could just cut them out of magazines instead?
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Ha! I had a bit of an image search an didn’t find anything apt but you knew exactly the right thing. Bravo! 🙂
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Casting my mind a lo-o-ong way back to A-level art history I’m sure I remember an essay question; discuss Kurt Schwitters’ influence on Duccio’s Synthetic Cubist phase.
A-level history of art seemed to be almost entirely a matter of one artist’s influence upon another.
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However militarily significant or not, the entire world admires it as a sassy operation. Except for Trump, apparently.
From Farage to Musk to Trump the far right’s entire narrative about Putin has been, ‘don’t poke the bear’: don’t stand up to bullies.
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Cultural historians, disputing whether the Renaissance really was A Thing or just a continuation of the Medieval Period, coming across the Trecento Schwitters chapel in the Siena duomo: ‘Er… oh.’
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A Kurt Schwitters chapel in Siena Cathedral would have been a lovely addition and warmly celebrated in the 14th century. Such a poignant counterpoint to their Pisano pulpit.
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An odd thing about that ‘art is long’ line is I originally came across it because Hunter S Thompson used to attribute it to Art Linkletter. I didn’t really know who AL was but I looked him up and a thing he did say was:
‘If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.’
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If Kurt Schwitters had been a 14th century maker of altarpieces…
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He seems to have a ’spouse’ as well as a ‘best friend’.
Punctuation working something like body language here.
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Fabulous. Is it known who the Egyptian looking figure (deity?) holding the two geese by the neck is, please?
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I wonder if there has been an artist in history who has not felt the way of your last remark? Probably quite often 😂
Another quote: apparently Joseph Conrad said, ‘art is long and life is short and success is very far off.’
I think that likely applies to most things one attempts 🙂
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For some reason your posts have not been showing up in my feed for many weeks. But here you are again at last, so have some Likes and Reposts and maybe Bluesky will go back to showing me your posts again 🙂
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I vaguely remember seeing one, maybe two of the movies. Really I remember the original TV show better — with its fondness for latex masks and whatnot — but I would never mention that as it would make me sound like a dinosaur.
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One of those tricky decisions for the en plein air artist: how much to include. Paint the portrait of every individual tile; or none of them, just a general tone for a whole roof; or somewhere in between?
Choices. Emile Zola: ‘art is nature seen through a temperament.’
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Ah, the bit in Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise cleverly evades the toe-print entry lock on the door of the baddies’ HQ. And turns out to have surprisingly youthful and feminine feet.
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I too think he can. And should. And must.