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Category: Art

Home > <a href="https://www.jameswoodward.online/category/blog/">Blog</a> > Archive by category "Category: <span>Art</span>"

Lingering Ghosts and the challenges of Public Art

Posted on 23 August 201725 August 2017 by James Woodward
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  For those of you who know Sarum College you will be aware that we have a long tradition of exhibiting Art. At the moment we are showing
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The Windows

Posted on 27 June 2015 by James Woodward
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  The Windows       Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple thou dos
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Miro on Ageing

Posted on 30 May 2015 by James Woodward
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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN When artist Joan Miro was 24 years old, he predicted that he would do his best work in old age. The exhibitio
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Auckland Castle

Posted on 28 December 2014 by James Woodward
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I have very vivid memories of visiting Auckland Castle as a sixth form student beginning to wonder about my vocation to the ordained ministry in the C
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The genious of Gormley

Posted on 31 August 2014 by James Woodward
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 I was determined to make a significant   detour during  August to see some public sculpture on Crosby beach and this short piece gives me
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Vacation Surprises : (1) Craigie Aitchison in Glass

Posted on 19 August 2014 by James Woodward
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  I travelled up to London during my summer holiday to attend a wonderful celebration of marriage of Robin and Sezgi Amos at St Mary the Bolton's in
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intricate

Posted on 12 July 2014 by James Woodward
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  intricate Intricate and untraceable weaving and interweaving, dark strand with light: designed, beyond all spiderly contrivance, to link
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roses in sunlight

Posted on 11 July 2014 by James Woodward
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  roses in sunlight Our sense of these things changes and they change, Not as in metaphor, but in our sense Of them. So sense exceeds all m
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Peter Lanyon

Posted on 8 July 2014 by James Woodward
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I love surprising discoveries. As a very enjoyable lunch last week in a London restaurant in Notting Hill this particular picture captured my imaginat
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Peter Lanyon

Posted on 8 July 2014 by James Woodward
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I love surprising discoveries. As a very enjoyable lunch last week in a London restaurant in Notting Hill this particular picture captured my imaginat
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thy fearful symmetry

Posted on 13 June 2014 by James Woodward
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  angel tiger Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry  ? In w
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Image of the Week : Henry Moore – Uprightinternal/External Form

Posted on 5 May 2014 by James Woodward
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Let us return?

Posted on 29 April 2014 by James Woodward
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  ultimate blue   Let us return to imperfection's school. No longer wandering after Plato's ghost, Seeking the garden where all fruit i
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Image of the week : Black on Maroon by Rothko

Posted on 28 April 2014 by James Woodward
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This painting comes from one of three series of canvases painted by Rothko in 1958-9 in response to a commission for murals for the small dining roo
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Image of the week: A Busy Life by Dubuffett

Posted on 21 April 2014 by James Woodward
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  Painted in August 1953. It is one of the series of paintings known as 'Beaten Pastes' (Pâtes battues) executed between March and December
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sunflowers and our search for the divine?

Posted on 14 October 2013 by James Woodward
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  attain God... he said, then realised it had been done with nothing but sunflowers   from Nicolette Stasko, Conseil de Gauguin (ad
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Ways into death and its narratives

Posted on 24 September 2013 by James Woodward
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  Quietus: The vessel, death and the human body An exhibition by Julian Stair Winchester Cathedral Autumn 2013 FB friends will have seen som
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Chagall at Chichester

Posted on 10 September 2013 by James Woodward
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A popular feature of Chichester Cathedral is a stained glass window on the north side, designed and created by the French artist Marc Chagall. The w
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The sacrament of Art

Posted on 8 August 2013 by James Woodward
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David Jones Artist 1895-1974 Art for David Jones is a sacramental process – the record of interface with God. Artworks are the fragments of trac
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The necessity of Age!

Posted on 9 February 2013 by James Woodward
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OLD MASTERS  How long does it take to become an Old Master?  Longer than one might think: Louise Bourgeois, a great experimental sculptor, once d
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