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Robin Blake

an artistic painting with many people in the center and one person on the other side

Jean Dubuffet Restaurant Rougeot 1

This is very French I think. The restaurant customers are all so solemn. Eating out is a serious almost a religious activity and accordingly the scene is a bit reminiscent of a church. There's more than a bit of the cartoonist in Dubuffet which is evident here.

a black and white drawing of a bird sitting on top of a brick wall with grass

Jean Dubuffet Wall with Bird

Wall with Bird (Lithograph on Montval paper 38x28.5 cm) is an illustration to a poem in the series Les Murs (The Walls) by the surrealist French poet Eugene Guillevic. Dubuffet was for a time big on walls & especially liked Brassai's photographs of Paris graffiti.

an image of a painting of a man and woman

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Cleveland Museum Of Art

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Dutch Artists

Caravaggio

Cimon and Pero aka Roman Charity painted about 1622 by the Dutch caravaggist Dirck van Baburen. This painting on a curious theme is now in the v. good show Beyond Caravaggio at London's National Gallery. The image (quite a common subject in 16th-18th century art) is of an imprisoned starved old man being suckled by his own daughter to keep him alive. The idea is to illustrate Filial Piety but its treatment is so sexualised as to draw out extraordinarily Freudian confusions.

an abstract piece of art that looks like it has been made out of paper

There didn't seem to be a theme to Ginsborg's ongoing series of little pictures. This one is in the shape of a tribal ceremonial shield.

Paintings

June 2018. I visit a show of these small, intriguing paintings by Michael Ginsborg. Each is c. 3 cm high.

an artistic painting on the wall of a building with trees and plants painted on it

David Hockney

David Hockney Landscapes

David Hockney Artist

David Hockney Paintings

I was very surprised by this Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, in his current show at Tate Britain. The works on display show Hockney's extreme versatility across his whole career. Here he conjures up a sharply surrealist effect that looks more like another planet than the East Riding.

It was a treat to see this little picture 3 Bathers by Cezanne at the National Gallery's Painters' Paintings show. It is specially cherishable because Matisse owned it. He wrote "In the thirty-seven years I have owned this canvas, I have come to know it quite well, though not entirely, I hope; it has sustained me morally in the critical moments of my venture as an artist; I have drawn from it my faith and my perseverance." Tela, Paul Cézanne, Cezanne Art, Paul Cezanne Paintings, Alberto Giacometti, Watercolor On Wood, Paul Cezanne, Post Impressionism, Aix En Provence

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Paul Cézanne

Cezanne Art

Paul Cezanne Paintings

It was a treat to see this little picture 3 Bathers by Cezanne at the National Gallery's Painters' Paintings show. It is specially cherishable because Matisse owned it. He wrote "In the thirty-seven years I have owned this canvas, I have come to know it quite well, though not entirely, I hope; it has sustained me morally in the critical moments of my venture as an artist; I have drawn from it my faith and my perseverance."

a black sculpture is in front of a white wall with blue ink on it and people silhouettes

Until yesterday I hadn't visited Gagosian's newest London gallery in Grosvenor Hill Mayfair which opened in October 2015. Designed by Caruso St John it's in the "white space" style i.e. adaptable to all kinds of art. I have titled the current show (in my head) Giacometti Man Meets Yves Klein's Woman. Here Klein used nude bodies as paint brushes for his patented blue. Looks less avant-garde with every passing year.

Carved 4000 years ago this limestone tomb lid or door is from Siracusa in Sicily. I saw it in the British Museum's Sicily exhibition. Sophisticated graphics, or what?

a chair made out of wooden sticks and other objects on the floor in an art gallery

From the current exhibition by Ai Wei Wei at the Royal Academy. Each stool shares a leg with 2 others: clever.

an image of some statues on the side of a building

This elegant relief marble panel in Regent's Place London is by Edward Hodges Baily (1815-78). It shows the defeated & wounded Spanish admiral, handing his sword to Nelson after the battle of St Vincent on 14th February 1797. The panel was for the arch originally intended to form the gateway of Buckingham Palace (a cut down version became Marble Arch). Baily rather specialised in Nelson: he sculpted the statue for the Column in Trafalgar Sq.

the virgin and child are depicted in this painting

Iphone Wallpaper Photography

I photographed this Virgin and Child by the Florentine Neri di Bicci (1419-91) at the Petit Palais museum, Avignon. Grove's Dictionary of Art says Bicci was an uninspired and conservative painter for his time, but I find this a lovely and harmonious work, sensitively coloured and particularly rich in the use of gold. The Virgin's fingers are absurdly long, I suppose, but the bare-bottomed pudgy-faced child pulling at the trailing end of his mother's veil is the Christ child at his most human.

a painting of a man standing in front of a stone structure with the word steve written on it

The Art Of Conversation

Rene Magritte The Art of Conversation (1955). This small gouache (6 1/4 X 8 1/4 in) was on sale at Christies in London on 23 June 2015. Wonderful to see it before it disappears again. Note the 2 Magrittean figures in lower foreground (raincoats, bowlers, rolled umbrella) perhaps having the conversation referred to.

Eric Ravilious 1903-42 was killed on active service during WW2 at only 39. He was a watercolour master in the great tradition of British landscape specialists like John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer & Paul Nash. Much of his work as war artist was done around the British coastal defences and the sub-arctic ocean – as here, where HMS Ark Royal engages the enemy at night in 1940 off Norway. Ravilious is on show until 31 August 2015 at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Books Illustration, Paper Industry, London Zoo, Picture Books Illustration, Viral Infection, Extinct Animals, Desert Island, Book Fair, White Horses

Books Illustration

Paper Industry

London Zoo

Picture Books Illustration

Eric Ravilious 1903-42 was killed on active service during WW2 at only 39. He was a watercolour master in the great tradition of British landscape specialists like John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer & Paul Nash. Much of his work as war artist was done around the British coastal defences and the sub-arctic ocean – as here, where HMS Ark Royal engages the enemy at night in 1940 off Norway. Ravilious is on show until 31 August 2015 at Dulwich Picture Gallery.