Tag Archives: art

Iconoclasm

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This bold new installation at Wimpole Hall asks difficult — some would say provocative — questions about the role of traditional art forms in a modern world.

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Echoing the delayed gratification of the wrapped Christmas gift, the artist seems to imply that the projection of the sculptor’s immediate intent onto the viewer’s consciousness is, in itself, best understood as an ephemeral dualism.

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The exhibition runs throughout the winter, and there is no charge for admission.

A Colossal Hit

One of the websites I most enjoy browsing, perhaps because it’s really rather different from most of my other reading, is Colossal.

Dedicated to ‘Art, Design, and Visual Culture’, it’s somewhere you can always find striking images. Here are some of my recent favourites – click on them to go to the relevant articles and find out what they’re all about…

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Mind-bending

I find these pictures, by Pawel Nolbert, intriguing – a blend of very analogue-like textures doing very digital-like things. Click the images for more examples of his work.

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