Elephants are truly majestic and amazing creatures aren't they? Intelligent and soulful and one of the greats which wonder the Earth, yet there are some that still feel that their tusks are better used by humans than by the elephant themselves. Without getting on my high horse about it, no one needs an elephants tusk...... Continue Reading →
Isle of the Dead (Third Version) – Arnold Böcklin
I don't very often go for landscapy pictures, generally because either, while they are beautiful they don't hold a lot of meaning and they act more as a document to record what the landscape looked like to the artist at the time of painting, or they are generally lacking in activity. This isn't to say... Continue Reading →
Nude Descending Staircase No. 2 – Marcel Duchamp
It's been a really crazy couple of weeks, which has felt like a rollercoaster of highs and lows, set on an ever moving landscape. We all have those times, where it just feels like we are walking on quicksand - everything is moving but not always in the direction that you want. Which is what... Continue Reading →
The Return of the Prodigal Son – Rembrandt
Forgiveness is a really hard thing isn't it. We all like to think we can be gracious enough to forgive, but sometimes there are things which crop up and put little blockers in the way of being able to let go of the hurt, or the anguish that an act has caused you. It can... Continue Reading →
The Great Wave off Kanagawa – Hokusai
I have thought long and hard before writing about this. Part of me felt it was very clichéd to have it on here, the other part of me really loves this piece and while I looked at other things by Hokusai as a friend of mine said she loved his work, I kept being drawn... Continue Reading →
La Cour des Grands – Bruno Pontiroli
Life is fragile isn't it. Nothing quite brings that home as much as a death of a loved one. You realise that there are things that you took for granted from them - seeing them smile, listening to them moan, their little bad habits like turning the TV up too loud or snoring. This, maybe... Continue Reading →
Shelley’s Art Musing: Bruegel the Elder – 450 years on
Another article published on the Parkstone International website. I really enjoyed writing this one, so I hope you guys enjoy reading it. Head over to here to have a read. Remember to come back and let me know what you thought. Even better... share the article.
What art do you like?
I'm looking to you guys again, I'm really interested to see what people on here like and if I can break down the images you love looking at. I see this as a dual purpose exercise, one to broaden my horizons to artists I might not know and to give me a bit of creative... Continue Reading →
Eugène Delacroix – Sexist?
I've had another article published on the Parkstone website... you can find it here https://parkstone.international/2018/09/27/shelleys-art-musings-delacroix-sexist/
The Fighting Temeraire – J.M.W. Turner
I have been pretty quiet over the weekend, as I had a tooth pulled out, and this momentarily gave me a dip in my inspiration. Not that my tooth being pulled has anything to do with Turner and his paintings, but I guess that there is a vague link to my tooth and the Temeraire... Continue Reading →
I and the village – Marc Chagall
I usually avoid cubism as it isn't my favourite form of art... to me it takes surrealism to a degree I am not overly comfortable with on a viewing level, which I know might sound odd from a self professed surrealism lover, but I just don't see the need for cubism, but we all have... Continue Reading →
La Polonaise – Tamara de Lempicka
Have you seen Google today? It is celebrating Tamara de Lempicka's 120th birthday. Lempicka was an accomplished Art Deco artist who lived between 1898 and 1980. She was very well known for her stylised portraits of the aristocracy as well as painting nudes. She was the mistress to Baron Raoul Kuffner, and after his wife... Continue Reading →
Ivan the terrible killing his son – Ilya Repin
History is fascinating. I have only found this since getting a bit older, as in school I only seem to remember studying the first world war. If you had spoken to me at the age of 18 I could have told you a lot about trench foot, trench warfare and no mans land. We never... Continue Reading →