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Dorset Sculpture
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This is a diary of thoughts about sculpture. It is one of my five blogs about sculpture and Fine Art all linked from here. This one includes some mention of rural affairs of interest in Dorset England. I also have a list of links to great art minds o
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Life Drawing for Victorian Ladies
Corporal Shaw I suppose some of us never really grow up. When serving, I visited my Regimental museum and among all the astonishing things to see and read was the story of Corporal Shaw. It frightens me now that I should have learnt by heart ...
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
Is one allowed to fall in love with a girl who died 166 years ago aged 87? She was clearly a very colourful lady. She survived the French Revolution despite being very closely connected to the French Queen (25 portraits) and continued on to be a c...
Prejudice in Art
Just how much are you influenced by suggestion, your parents, your teachers, your peers?If you are told something is good or interesting then will you believe it? If it is on show in a museum - exhibition- will you automatically accept that it should...
My Dormitory Ghosts
I wasn’t really interested in ghost stories but I was in demand as a teller of them. This constantly got me into trouble for talking after lights out in a classic English prep school in the late 50s early 60s. The Vicar of Seaford was chosen for hi...
