Congratulations to Pete Carr, a deserved winner of this award. Its great for Pete and also good for Liverpool as most of his photos are of local scenes and people. I know I’m one of a great many people who really look forward to his daily postings.
Monthly Archive for December, 2008
Liverpool artwork of the week – 50. The Kiss by Auguste Rodin at Tate Liverpool.
Lets end the year with a big kiss!
Its been welcoming guests to the foyer of Tate Liverpool throughout 2008 and continues until April 2009.
One of the nineteenth century’s most innovative sculptors, Rodin is often referred to as the first modern sculptor because of his concern with the materiality of form. The Kiss appears timeless, a lasting manifestation of the academic nude which succeeds in delicately balancing the ideal and the erotic. Originally part of a larger commission, The Gates of Hell, illustrating Dante’s Inferno, The Kiss depicts the adulterous lovers Paolo and Francesca in their first embrace. The Kiss was produced at the beginning of the century at a time of great experimentation, during which the treatment of the figure would be radically transformed.
Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture
I hope you’re all checking out next year’s European Capital of Culture, Linz in Austria.
Very nice website and I like the logo – 09 made from a full stop and apostrophe – clever and simple.
We thought this ended on December 23rd! Either we got it wrong or its been extended but anyway it means you still have time to see it – if you haven’t already.
A surprising choice perhaps by the Guardian art critic but anyone who visited the retrospective at the Walker early in the year (which sadly JJ missed) would surely agree he was an excellent painter.
YouTube – follydigitalarts’s Channel.
I like this little xmas vid from the good people at folly digital arts
Liverpool artwork of the week 49. ‘The shortening winter’s day is near a close’, 1903 by Joseph Farquharson (1846 – 1935) at Lady Lever Gallery.
Farquharson came to specialize in painting sheep in the snow, enabling him to contrast the hard, smooth finish of the snow with the soft, shaggy texture of the sheep — a contrast all the sharper because both are white. The setting sun, shining at the spectator, only makes the total effect all the more an ingenious test of the artist’s skill in portraying subtleties of reflected colour and tone on his white surfaces. Farquharson’s titles sound like quotations, but in fact are his own inventions.
An extended study of ‘The shortening winter’s day is near a close’ is available online as part of NML’s picture of the month series.
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