tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90640844461157986642024-03-06T06:02:28.478+02:00MIKE HEALEYThe Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-88432367531929118822021-02-22T22:21:00.000+02:002021-02-22T22:21:48.763+02:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The painting shown below began in France ten years ago and was finished in Corfu, where it remains in the wonderful Corfu Gallery in Corfu Town</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's called 'After the flood' and is an attempt to show both the desolation and the hope of a landscape recovering from some dreadful inundation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's large (200 x 100 cms) and on canvas. I used gouache throughout then added a final varnish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By way of contrast, the collage shown below was finished this week in my tiny studio in Kendal, UK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a gouache collage with photographic elements, including the face of Kurt Schwitters who once lived near Ambleside, here in the Lake District</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early next month there is an exhibition up here dedicated to Schwitters. This is one of two works that I will submit for consideration</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other submission (above) is a three-dimensional diorama which explores Schwitters claim that perspective is a 'swindle'!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here persepctive is reversed so objects that are close to the viewer are small, whereas those at a distance are large</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is tthe complete opposite of the rules associated with traditional Renaissance perspective</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Agoraphobia </i>- Mike Healey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It depicts a man suffering from Agoraphobia or fear of open spaces</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do not suffer from this debilitating condition myself but there are a surprisingly large number on this planet who do</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This picture is dedicated to them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For those of you interested in such matters, I should add that this canvas weighs a ton - not least because it has on its surface no less than <i>five</i> other (failed) paintings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">One plus in using a much overpainted canvas is that the surface becomes very rough, thereby giving the walls in the painting above a wonderful 'rough plaster' effect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the 1920's in Paris, London and New York, Polish-born Tamara de Lempicka was the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Her notoriety and fame endure and today she is collected by modern 'celebrities' - such as Madonna</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her style has been described as 'soft' Art Deco although other critics refer to the influence of French painter Maurice Denis and the earlier nudes of Ingres</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her works are cool, clean, polished yet with an underlying sensuality that partly explains their popularity with the wealthy Parisian set who posed for her and who bought her paintings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tamara was herself something of a beauty. She added to her society allure by being bi-sexual and notoriously active sexually - she knew Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West and Colette</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Paris she was a leading figure in the Bohemian 'movement' and although married and with a young daughter, had numerous affairs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have always drawn on of real plants for inspiration but in the course of putting paint to canvas, changes invariable occur!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take, for example, this painting which I am currently working on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's more or less finished but I am at that dangerous 'tweaking' stage when it is so easy to overpaint your canvas - you probably know what I mean!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was walking from my sister's house down a country lane towards Kendal when I spotted a large, thistle-type plant at the edge of a field</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had no sketch pad with me so I had to memorise its distinct form and hastily jot something down when I got home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I usually work fast on canvas. The leaf forms were obtained with just a palette knife, applied with swift hand movements across a white canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In all, it took less than twenty minutes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My chosen medium is gouache - the cheap poster paint used by school children. It's fluid, provides intense primary colours and...well, cheap!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pink highlights were applied with either my finger dipped in gouache of with the point of a thick brush - again working at speed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In close-up you can see how fluid the medium is. From the start I am working on a white canvas so the uniform, deliberately 'flat' blue of the 'sky' is added afterwards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Painting in the blue background is a slow, painstaking process but I can 'edit' the image as I proceed, giving final shape and definition to leaves and foliage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After working in black and white for the last few months it was something of a 'holiday' for me to add bright colours to a large (100 x 80 cms,) white canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One unexpected 'bonus' is that in certain light the picture takes on a 'three-dimensional' appearance, with the dark shapes at the back receding into the blue sky and optically forcing the pink-tinted leaves further into the foreground</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In my work I have tried frequently to reinterpret these classical stories and to find relevance for contemporary audiences</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In some cases I have gone back to times before the classical Greek myths, to an even darker pagan age when fearful creatures inhabited the forests, demanding human sacrifices to appease their anger - as in the picture above</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have also tried to explore the great fertility myth associated with Persephone and her rape and abduction by Hades, King of the Underworld</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The above painting shows female followers of Dionysius resting after having torn a man limb from limb for observing one of their secret rites. All that is left of him is one foot (top right)!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is this constant attempt to reinterpret mythological figures that, for an artist at least, is particularly fulfilling</span></span><br />
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I live close to a florist's and this drawing is partly based on one of the plants I noticed in their window last week</div>
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I drew it from memory a few days later but allowed myself to change and invent during that process in the studio</div>
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The result is - I hope you agree - a charming image of a plant that you may - or may not - encounter some time in your travels!</div>
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Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-17570084868164506782019-12-18T11:07:00.000+02:002019-12-18T21:58:42.204+02:00Mik Healey - Retrospective 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I have explained elsewhere on this blog, I am currently rewriting a short story of mine called <i>Journey to the dark side of the Moon</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To that end I have been going through my portfolio to find paintings that might serve as illustrations for that story</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few that you may not have seen before:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A new version of <i>Journey to the dark side of the Moon</i> will be available on Amazon in June</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The early work of Mike Healey</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I would like - with your indulgence - to look back at some paintings, drawings and collages from early in my professional career as a painter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The works I am about to show you have all been sold so my recollections of them are based on a handful of photographs that I have retained - more by chance than design</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What is curious is that, until I found these photographs recently, I had little - if any - recollection of this work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is partly a measure of my failing memory but also evidence of the wide range and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">productivity of my work at the start of my career </span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Indeed, in the early 1980's - when I began to exhibit my work (usually two one-man shows a year) - I would regularly produce something like sixty pictures for each exhibition - that's 120 pictures a year. I'm not sure I can produce that many today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also, when I think that at that time I was fully employed as a television director/producer and only able to paint in my spare time, my actual productivity is really quite remarkable </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What also emerges is the homogeneity of my work - something at this remove that I find somewhat surprising</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At the time I felt that each new picture was distinctly different from its predecessor but the works when <span style="font-size: small;">viewed retrospectively show a continuity that is curiously reassuring - I think!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is partly due, I suspect, to a uniformity of technique - wide use of collage embedded in more abstract, largely gouache 'backdrops' - but also the ineluctable emergence of a unique, personal aesthetic </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">To look back at this is rather satisfying </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">although <i>at the time</i> I was always conscious of my <i>lack</i> of any specific style or direction. This may have been just my normal anxiety</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> but the photographic evidence is that there clearly <i>was</i> a direction to my work - even if I was myself largely unaware of it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think it probably true that artists are often the last people to understand their work in any real <i>historical</i> sense. That kind of reflection is, I suspect, contrary to the artist's natural way of thinking</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What <i>is</i> crucially important, however, is that each artist actively reflects deeply on the work in hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Picasso is a perfect example of this ability to delve deeply into</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> what is actually on the canvas before him.The originality of his work - like all great artists - is therefore the result of deep and constant reflection, much trial-and-error and experimentation <i>and</i> the courage to scrap something that his instinct tells him is 'not working'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a creative process that is continuous and taking place in 'real time' - not something reflected upon at leisure much later </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lesser artist like me <i>do </i>share this quality, albeit in a less exalted way</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One (Kofi) is a black child, enslaved in West Africa (Guyana) and bought to Jamaica where he learns to cut sugar cane.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He is later separated from his mother in Jamaica and taken by sea to Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumberland (UK) where he becomes servant to a wealthy woman. He has become a blackamoor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He is sold to a Master Sweep by his mother for the price of a flagon of gin. He is trained as a sweep and one day gets stuck up a chimney at Buckingham House, the new home of King George III and his young wife, Charlotte.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although they try to 'smoke 'im out', Jack survives this ordeal and secretly lives up that chimney for the next six weeks, coming out at night to steal food and drink - and anything else he can lay his grubby hands on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What happens when the two boys eventually meet, run riot in the palace at night and finally escape is what this novel is really about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is also about slavery, child exploitation and abuse and the friendship that can be forged even in such troubled times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please revisit this blog soon for new updates, sample chapters and an account of how I came to write this extraordinary novel</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This novel is now available on most online outlets, in both paperback and kindle formats</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Visit my Amazon page for other books by me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Decalcomania is a technique that I have discussed elsewhere on this blog</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The strange rock formations shown above are created by spreading wet ink (I actually use bone black powder mixed with water) then applying paper, pressing it down then drawing it back carefully</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With practice you can create amazing shapes. In the above painting I have added a photographic face to turn the shapes into a strange figure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The above painting used exactly the same technique but the tree shapes were created with a palette knife</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You need to work fast for the bone black 'paste' dries quickly</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You also need shiny white paper. Photographic paper is ideal but expensive but it does not absorb water too readily, allowing you to manipulate the 'ink' on its surface more effectively </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you combine both techniques (pressed paper + palette knife) with colour you can create very interesting images - as in the 'Bramble Landscape'' shown above</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I use normal hair spray - just as good and a fraction the price.</span></span><br />
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Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-76338849245692466552019-08-15T15:44:00.000+03:002019-08-15T15:44:04.967+03:00Edouard Manet's Olympia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have been reading Emile Zola's novel <i>Nana</i>, first published in 1880</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It tells the story of a young prostitute in Paris who becomes a fashionable courtesan, infamous for the cruel way she treats her many lovers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> We first come across her in an earlier novel - <i>L'Assommoir</i> - but now she is an actress who, at the start of the new novel, appears in an operetta as a scantily clad 'Venus' </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Which brings me to Edouard Manet's equally infamous painting -<i> Olympia </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This painting was done in 1863 but when it was first shown in public at the Salon de Paris in 1865 it caused a sensation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The pose is derived from Titian's <i>Venus of Urbino</i> (1538), itself copied from a reclining nude by Giorgione of 1510</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">While the pose is very similar, what shocked contemporaries in Manet's painting was the frank depiction - not of a 'Classical' nude - but of a naked courtesan </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Manet's treatment of the reclining woman ran counter to contemporary idealisations of the nude female, as espoused by a moribund French Academy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Take Alexander Cabarel's <i>Birth of Venus</i> for example:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This saccharine confection was painted the same year as <i>Olympia</i> and yet it is light years behind Manet's innovative work, with its bold brush strokes and provocative subject matter </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> It is exactly the kind of painting - with its polished, glossy surface and coy pose - that The Royal Academy actively endorsed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Interestingly, one of the men to support Manet at the time was Emile Zola himself</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1877 Manet had made a painting of a young courtesan standing before her mirror, with her 'client' seated (adoringly) on the sofa right of frame</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This was originally a portrait of Henriette Hauser but after the publication of Zola's novel in 1880 was was widely known as <i>Nana</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i>Manet (albeit quite unintentionally) has caught the cheap character of the novel's Nana exceptionally well</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This mixture of coquetishness and undeniable sex appeal is that a young woman who is clearly comfortable with her sexuality and 'commercial' station in society</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Manet's Nana is not as effective as Olympia<i> </i>whose hard, unyielding stare out of frame (at her client as well as us, the viewer!) is quite provocative</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moreover, Olympia's hand - covering her genitals - has none of the innocent languor of the Titian or, for example, the elegance of Goya's <i>Maja desnuda</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In short, Manet created a portrait of an <i>odalisque</i> (reclining woman) very much for his age - a painting that shocked his contemporaries but broke the stranglehold French academicians held over contemporary 'taste'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It also lead the way for the great, Modernist <i>odalisques</i> of Matisse and Picasso</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mike Healey</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can see <i>Olympi</i>a at the Musee D'Orsay in Paris </span></span></div>
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Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-68674462271820942472019-08-15T07:31:00.000+03:002019-08-14T15:34:36.644+03:00My early paintings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have recently switched to Photoshop. Am I the last person on the planet to have done this, I wonder?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This collage was first shown at Brantwood, the Lake District home of John Ruskin on Lake Coniston</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was part of a very large exhibition of my work based on the notion that Alice, now a young woman, returns to Wonderland to revisit all her old friends</span></span></div>
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Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-87003126399021684642019-08-14T15:29:00.000+03:002019-08-14T15:29:41.958+03:00Igor Morski<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My featured artist this month is Polish graphic designer, illustrator and set-designer,<b> Igor Morski</b> whose distinctive graphic style is now widely recognized as unique - a thoughtful, provocative and witty artist in the best tradition of Magritte<br />
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Morski was born in Poland in 1960 and graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and
Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in
Poznań (now the University of Arts). I have myself visited this wonderful art academy but sadly well after Igor graduated<br />
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Morski's work is digital and involves the creative manipulation of photographic source material. While these techniques have produce hundreds of new 'Surrealists', few have quite matched Morski's creativity and imagination<br />
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The graphic juxtaposition of images - invented by the Surrealists - is relatively easy and can easily lapse therefore into mere illustration or worse, visual sentimentality.<br />
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Morski is not immune from this:<br />
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Often, however, he gives his images an 'edge' that challenges our views or perceptions, producing work that is thought provoking:<br />
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Morski began his professional career in commercial art. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, for example, he
worked for Polish Television, subsequently creating set
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What I particularly like about his work is that it probes the human condition, seeking hidden emotions and the 'face behind the face' - if such exists!<br />
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In the early 90’s he pursued a career in press illustration,
working for leading Polish titles including <i>Wprost, Newsweek, Businesweek, Businesman Magazine, Manager Magazine, Charaktery, Psychologia dziś </i>and recently<i> Focus</i><br />
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His work also regularly appears in international
magazines (<i>American Deloitte Review, Australian Prevention, Money, ITB</i> and<i>Men’s Health, Womans Health, George</i>)<br />
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He is a winner of
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Igor Morski is co-owner of a graphic design studio - <i>Morski Studio
Graficzne</i> - in his hometown. His advertising art has been commissioned by
Saatchi & Saatchi in Singapore and Sydney, Australia and
Abelson Taylor among others<br />
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Morski is interested in
natural sciences in a broad sense, genetics, cosmology and theoretical
physics - subjects that recur frequently in his illustrations<br />
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Occasionally it produces images that although relatively simple are, by nature, 'philosophical', thereby challenging our understanding of the human condition and the inward, hugely subjective ways in which we perceive ourselves:<br />
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For more examples of this artist's work, visit my Pinterest site or go direct to his website by clicking on the link below:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.igor.morski.pl/">IGOR MORSKI</a></span><br />
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<b>MIKE HEALEY </b><br />
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Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-18826098032438528812019-08-14T15:28:00.000+03:002019-08-14T15:28:55.785+03:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sometimes art challenges - in the way Goya's 'Disasters of War' shocked even a Europe ravaged by the Napolionic wars</div>
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Is this artist at that level?</div>
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Is this great artist Goya's contemporary successor?</div>
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In my view, the answer is a definitive YES<br />
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To find out who he is and why I make this claim, come back soon!<br />
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Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-20461316555259769412019-08-14T15:17:00.000+03:002019-08-14T15:17:15.646+03:00Picasso's favourite mistress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Walter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From time to time I would like to explore the figure or subject behind a painting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This week I have chosen a beautiful portrait by Picasso</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Dream</i>, January 24, 1932</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On 8th January, 1927 - at six o'clock in the evening, on a boulevard in Paris - Picasso met a young, adolescent girl with cobalt blue eyes and a precociously voluptuous body</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">When he introduced himself she claimed not to know who he was. Picasso was obliged, therefore, to take her to a nearby bookshop and show her a book about him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">They met, by arrangement, a few days later outside the Saint-Lazare Metro station. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Within a week they were lovers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Picasso was forty-five and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> just seventeen-and-a-half</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> years old and still, technically, under-age</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At first, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse's</span><span style="font-size: small;"> mother objected to her daughter's association with a married man (Olga Picasso was still very much on the scene) but later acquiesed and for the next <i>nine </i>years conived in her daughter's adulterous relationship with Picasso </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Olga (Picasso) in an armchair</i>, 1918</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pablo Picasso was, after all, the most famous artist on the planet and very rich</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into the bargain. What mother </span>would <i>not</i> regard her daughter's interests as paramount?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The impact </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-size: small;"> made on Picasso's life was profound and lead to an experimental period in his art of great intensity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Marie-Thérèse Walter at Dinard, 1929</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Their passionate - and at times, sexually violent - relationship also produced some of his most inspired work - not least a series of erotic, yet tender portraits of his new lover</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The evidence for the early development of their relationship is a sketchbook covering their first four months together in which, in each drawing, he sought to capture the essense of his new, very young lover </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In one painting, dated 1929, he shows </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (on the left) emerging from a beach-hut, to be met by a flabby-breasted, bony-ribbed Olga on the right:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In 1935, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-size: small;"> became pregnant<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnant" title="Pregnant"></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When Olga was informed by a friend that her husband
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Picasso and, with their son Paulo, moved to the South of France</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Picasso and Olga never divorced (for legal reasons, largely determined by Picasso) but lived separately until her death in 1955</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse's</span><span style="font-size: small;"> daughter by Picasso - called Maya -
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and Maya stayed with Picasso at Juan-les-Pins in the South of France during April and May, 1936 and then at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre near Versailles
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<span style="font-size: small;">In 1935, Picasso fell in love with Dora Maar - a photographer and model</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Once,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and Maar met accidentally in Picasso's studio when he was painting <i>Guernica</i>, which Maar had been photographing during its composition </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Asked about this in later life, Picasso remarked that he had been quite
happy with the situation. When they demanded that he choose
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themselves - at which point the two women began to wrestle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Picasso described it as one of his 'choicest' memories.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Walter#cite_note-0"></a></sup></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In 1940, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Marie-Thérèse</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and Maya moved back to Paris and throughout the war years Picasso supported them financially but he never married his long-term mistress</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The illustrations for this article are taken from <i>A Life of Picasso (Volime III)</i> by John Richardson, published by Pimlico (2009)</span></div>
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From time to time it is possible to 'discover' an artist whose work you have never seen before.</div>
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I discovered Joseph Zbukvic on Pinterest and was completely bowled over by the quality of his beautiful water-colour paintings</div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 18px;">Like many great water-colourists, he is drawn to water but he is equally adept at urban streets, cafes, sidewalks and the hustle and bustle of a busy city like Melbourne, Vienna or Paris</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 18px;">His attention to detail is phenomenal - just look at the horse and carriage above and below:</span></span></div>
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A stage play in three acts by Mike Healey</div>
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I am in the process of writing a new stage play. It is about a young woman called Anne Gunter who, it was claimed, was possessed by the devil</div>
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When possessed, Anne became hysterical and vomited pins. Her case came to the attention of the new King of England - James I, himself an expert on witchcraft</div>
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As both writer and painter, I try to visualise events on stage. </div>
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Sometimes I seek inspiration from other sources and in this case I am drawn to Peter Greenaway's 2012 film 'Goltzius and the Pelican Company'</div>
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This controversial films tells the story of a 17th century Dutch printer who publishes a book of erotica, based on Biblical stories</div>
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Greenaway, as a painter himself, brings to his work a highly refined sensibility and mastery of many digital technologies - which give his films their unique aesthetic<br />
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Much of Greenaway's work has the appearance of being performed on stage, with the camera placed centrally and the orthogonals studiously observed<br />
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I am aiming for a Brechtian austerity but want my Jacobean costumes to provide a rich contrast. This Greenaway achieves in this film - and elsewhere in his work.</div>
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It is something from which we can all learn and apply to our own theatrical efforts.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you are a regular follower of this blog (if not, <i>why </i>not?) then you will know of my long-term involvement with Shakespeare's <i>The Tempest </i>(1610).<i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the island Prospero uses an airy spirit called Ariel to enact his magic. This beautiful painting (below) of Ariel flying on a bat's wing is by Fuseli, one of the most imaginative and accomplished of artists who have illustrated Shakespeare's plays:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have long wondered why this play, of all Shakespeare' great works, should so fascinate me - to the extent that I once created an exhibition of some <i>sixty</i> paintings solely devoted to exploring aspects of <i>The Tempest.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I first directed <i>The Tempest</i> when I was Associate Director at the Oxford Playhouse in the 1970's. My production starred Francesca Annis as Miranda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Since then I have directed it twice in professional productions and several times with drama students in one form or another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I suppose one reason is that as a painter/stage designer it offers countless opportunities for imaginative interpretations. For the Cumbria Institute of the Arts I created a short version of <i>The Tempest, </i>featuring the 'back story' to Caliban and Miranda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Prospero's magic gives artistic licence for almost anything. Indeed, that may explain why Derek Jarman (1979) and Peter Greenaway (<i>Prospero's Books</i>, 1991) have both made film adaptations of this play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Miranda, for example, has long interested other artists but each interpretation is largely a reflection of the times in which that artist worked. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but it does make for some very strange Mirandas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There, one day, I found a 19th Century copy of <i>The Tempest</i>. It was small, beautifully bound with thick, creamy paper. The act and scene headings were in red. I thought this was sumptuous and bought it, there and then!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, my <i>real</i> reason for loving <i>The Tempest</i> so much is that little edition - my very first copy of the play. Do you remember Orson Welles' <i>Citizen Kan</i>e (1941)? Well, that little edition of <i>The Tempest</i> is <i>my</i> 'Rosebud'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Although Prospero's island is entirely invented by Shakespeare, some scholars and writers (including Lawrence Durrell) claim that it is really Corfu, Greece.</span></div>
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Rembrandt's celebrated painting (1642) is the subject of Peter Greenaway's film 'Nightwatching' starring Martin Freeman</div>
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The film explores events leading up to this commission and the nature of the Dutch militiamen who wished to be immortalised in a group portrait<br />
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During work on the painting, Rembrandt stumbles upon what appears to be a cover-up of a murder committed within the ranks of the civilian 'regiment'<br />
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There are other disturbing events within the militia's ranks, including one of its members using an orphanage for young girls as a brothel<br />
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The finished portrait therefore contains clues to the 'accidental' death of one of the members of the regiment, thereby exposing the dark story that lies behind this celebrated group portrait<br />
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According to Greenaway, the scandal associated with his 'exposure' of murder within the regiment's ranks had a profound and deleterious effect on Rembrandt's subsequent career<br />
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Greenaway has also produced a documentary film associated with this film - 'Rembrandt's J'Accuse' (2008) - in which he provides 33 pieces of 'evidence' for his theory<br />
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Both films are currently available in one DVD from axiom/films<br />
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www.axiomfilms.co.uk<br />
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northern Europe, ‘Western Civilisation’ as we know it clearly sprung from the
indigenous peoples of the Greek city-states and islands, subsequently shaping
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My Dionysus is a far more dangerous figure, associated with death and sexual indulgence and whose female followers would dismember any man who witnessed their secret rites!</div>
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My choice this month is Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola,1908-2001). This brilliant artist is one of the great Modernists yet he remains hugely controversial, not least for his subject matter.<br />
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Balthus was of Polish extraction. As a student he studied tempera wall paintings in Florence and from 1930 to 1932 lived in Morocco.<br />
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He moved to Paris in 1933 where <i>La Lecon de guitare</i> brought him instant fame - and notoriety!<br />
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Although primarily known as a painter of young, pubescent girls in 'erotic' poses, he was also an accomplished landscape artist, with a delicate colour sense and fine draftsmanship<br />
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I particularly like the above landscape, begun in 1941 and<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>La Sortie du bain</i>, 1957</span><br />
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However, it is a painter of the female form that Balthus is best known.<br />
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This beautiful painting (above) of a young girl emerging from her bath is equal, in my view, to anything by Matisse or even the late chalk or crayon drawings by Degas<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Nu devant la cheminee</i>, 1955</span><br />
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I have only ever seen one drawing (crayon on paper) by Balthus and it was this elegant study of a young girl in front of her mirror. The simplicity of its design and the clean lines of both figure and room<br />
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Although some critics have considered this painting (above) erotic, it is the girl's absorption in her pet cat that gives the languor of her pose its naturalness<br />
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An early sketch for this painting (below) is less emotionally charged, the focus being the girl's concentration on her pet cat whose paw emerges over the top of her chair or mirror<br />
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True, there is always a hint of voyeurism in these paintings and the suggestion of a (female) figure by the window in the finished oil painting, probably gazing at the girl, adds unease to this otherwise 'innocent' picture<br />
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The idea of a nude figure being <i>deliberately </i>exposed to view is more explicit in the above painting.<br />
Here a strange, dwarf-like female opens the curtain, flooding the room with saffron-coloured light that exposes the girl in what could be a post-masturbatory sleep<br />
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While, to a third party (i.e the viewer) this might make this picture blatantly erotic, in my view it represents the girl's possible guilt and<i> her own fear of exposure</i> at her emerging sexuality<br />
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This famous painting of a young girl exposing her legs whilst reclining on a bench is frequently seen merely as an erotic pose designed to titilate the viewer<br />
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In my view this is completely wrong.<br />
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Again, it is the girl's self absorption that renders her pose innocent and little more than someone aware, perhaps, of her own burgeoning sexuality - something any parent will recognize in their own daughters<br />
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Which brings us back to <i>The guitar lesson</i><br />
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The notion that the girl is somehow being abused is in my view completely wrong.<br />
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The child's languid pose, peaceful smile (her eyes are closed, as if she were asleep) and left hand straying towards the woman's exposed right breast suggest to me that this is a <i>dream</i> in which the girl herself is fantasizing about her 'teacher'<br />
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A crayon sketch dated 1949 (some fifteen years after <i>La Lecon </i>) yet called <i>Etude pour La Lecon de guitare</i> is more difficult to explain<br />
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Here a male figure pulls the girl's clothing away with his teeth, his eyes resolutely fixed on her genital area while his right hand grasps the girl's arm in a dominant grip<br />
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Assuming the date (1949) is correct, then this is an <i>entirely</i> different treatment of the subject and one which some of us might legitimately find disturbing<br />
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Balthus died in February, 2001.<br />
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He was revered by other great artists - including Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and writers such as Andre Gide, Jean Cocteau and Andre Breton<br />
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Illustrations for the above article are taken from <i>Balthus</i> by Jean Clair and published by Flammarion in 2001<br />
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To find this book and others, click on the link below<br />
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This iconic statue is by Degas and is one of the most celebrated works of that great 19th Century artist</div>
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While we are probably familiar with his paintings of dancers at the Paris Opera, behind the making of this wax figure lies a much darker tale of grinding poverty and failure and the wealthy men who exploited these vulnerable young women</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rooting through old files recently, I found the following images of earlier work </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This collage (above) was done for a stage poster, long since lost I'm afraid</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I rather like this little pencil drawing. It was a study for a much larger oil painting called 'Jealousy'. I had no idea when I started drawing what I was in fact drawing - it just turned out to be this winged rider on a strange horse!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since then I have painted it again, this time in charcoal and gold paint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This photo collage (above) on acrylic is a study for a portrait of Icarus - the man in Greek legend who flew too near the sun</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The image above is a detail from a large canvas - and my first attempt to work by dribbling paint onto the canvas</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What works well here for me is the 'depth' such a painting can achieve, with the eye being drawn deeper and deeper into the recesses the paint forms</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Finally, a photograph of a corner of my studio in Carcassonne, SW France where most of the above paintings were made some seven years ago</span><br />
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Mike Healeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625686301728437134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064084446115798664.post-44901834872284349432017-12-15T19:50:00.001+02:002017-12-15T19:51:28.172+02:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have just completed this painting</div>
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It has no title as yet but goes back to my early career in the theatre - as Associate Director of the Oxford Playhouse</div>
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It is not a very good photograph I am afraid but I will take another in better light tomorrow!</div>
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