I enjoy watching dance …. and indeed in my younger days I enjoyed several different dance forms. Recently there has been a very interesting series of documentaries on our TV about dance, under the general title Why do we dance? My wife and I have enjoyed watching it together. The latest edition, screened the other … Read more
…. it’s nice to have some public profile, however humble. This month’s copy of The Artist features my contribution as its “star letter”. Fancy that! My point was that the majority of their articles focus on the importance of looking and seeing, which is fair enough, but I wanted to know why we don’t have … Read more
A couple of days ago I used the blog to draw attention to the (often under-rated) importance of imagination. Quite by coincidence today I came across an illustration of Giuseppe Vermiglio’s Judith and Holofernes. It struck me as a seventeenth century re-working of the far superior treatment of the same idea by Caravaggio. What is … Read more
As I tied up the loose ends with my “Green Man” project today, in preparation for the photographer tomorrow, it came to me suddenly that the way in which we have come to regard art is heavily skewed towards one aspect of it. Often both artists and critics lose sight of the importance of imagination. … Read more