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I’m always a little surprised about the coincidences that crop up…who would have thought that one of the blogs I follow would have just received artmail from Exeter – where I was born and lived till leaving for college at 18.  Or that another I follow should mention within a day or two the Ikon Gallery where I worked from 75 till 80…and that he would then reveal that Mali Morris (who we showed in that period – see above) was his favorite painter.  

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Words and Thoughts in RGB, (2005), by Eduardo Morais.

Recently I have been experimenting with a different way of writing poetry.

I got the idea from an activity on sentence structure and word class that I sometimes get my tutees to do.

The method goes like this:

1. Write out lists of about twenty nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. 2. Cut them up, turn them over and put them in piles according to word class.

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Joan Miro – “For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.”

ANDRÉ BRETON (FRENCH, 1896-1966) "Landscape", circa 1933 - Colored pencil on black paper 24.1cm x31.7cm - Collection of MoMA, New York. On view until July 9th.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and it can take surprising forms.

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Me handing over the Box, for The Long Series Project to Andy Parkinson. Thats it, no more box for me. Time to pass it on.

Just before my visit to the Auckland Art Gallery, I read a blog post from Artista…thoughts on art in London about ‘Parallel Painting Paths – Mondrian and Nicholson converse at The Courtauld.‘  Walking to the Frances Hodgkins exhibition that day, I passed this painting by Ben Nicholson which looked so similar to the one in Chloe’s post: 1939 (composition).

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So Friday, patternsthatconnect posted The Painting as Container, with instructions on how he did it, like a painter’s internet meme.  I thought the idea was so cool I did one myself:

Container, acrylic on 11" x 14" canvas, January 2012

From patternsthatconnect:

The Rules:

1. With diluted paint lay a light ground and leave to dry
2. Pour paint of similar colour onto the ground and spread it by pushing with a brush from  the centre towards the edges of the canvas.

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Clare Woods’ exhibition, The Unquiet Head, finishes on Sunday the 29th January 2012. So get down to The Hepworth Wakefield and witness this fantastic exhibition first hand if you can. Apologies for the wonky pictures. I must have been slouching!