Lovely and lively sketches!!
Our first sketching theme of 2022 was “Home”, and with the crazy winter weather and the crazy continuing pandemic, home is a good sketching venue.
February’s theme will be coming soon!
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Books I Read in January
You made a great start with Orwell I think. I’ve read a couple of books by Ferdinand Mount. One of these about the Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen -basically faction. The other some superb book reviews. Also reading a brilliant biography of Sheridan, an Irish playwright and politician by Fintan O’Toole also brilliantly written. I think it is brilliant that you liked all those books!!!
- Book v. Cigarettes – George Orwell
- Cultish – Amanda Montell
- Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney
- No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute – Lauren Elkin
- All Men Want to Know – Nina Bouraoui
- Heather – G C McKay
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors – Susan Sontag
- A Chapbook About Nothing – Scott Cumming
- Blue of Noon – Georges Bataille
- 84 Charing Cross Road – Helen Hanff
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I resolved to record my reading this year if you didn’t know. I have never done this in my life, and it can feel very self-aggrandizing. However, I offset this by never giving negative reviews. My reasons for this are simple. I would never be so bold as to assume I could tell another writer how to do their job. And, I usually enjoy every book I read, which seems to shock people.
A list like this can…
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Marvellous Pisarro!
After spending six years in rural Éragny, Pissarro returned to Paris, where he painted several series of the grands boulevards. Surveying the view from his lodgings at the Grand Hôtel de Russie in early 1897, Pissarro marveled that he could “see down the whole length of the boulevards” with “almost a bird’s-eye view of carriages, omnibuses, people, between big trees, big houses that have to be set straight.” ()
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Doris Clare Zinkeisen (1898–1991)
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901–1976)
2. Anna Zinkeisen by Anna Zinkeisen, c.1944 / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
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I broadly agree with your interesting and thorough review. I saw this film very recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked the feminist themes which were lost on me years ago when the series was prime time on the BBC
Has Aaron Sorkin ever met anyone who doesn’t sound like Aaron Sorkin?
That was the question that I found myself considering as I watched Sorkin’s latest film, Being the RIcardos. The film may present itself as being a film about Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) but neither Lucy nor Desi ever come across as being actual human beings or even celebrities trying to be human. Instead, they both come across as Sorkin stock characters. Lucy is the socially maladjusted genius who demands a lot from the people working for her and who struggles with apologizing. Desi is irresponsible but a hard worker, a man who makes a lot of mistakes but who should never be underestimated. They speak in quips and they instinctively understand what the people in their audience want to see. Who can keep up with Lucy and Desi? Certainly not the suits…
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#NF Dawn of the Belle Epoque
Sounds really interesting. There is a great little book with a memorable chapter on Escoffier called “Proust was a Neuroscientist” by Johan Lehrer. Julian Barnes’s “The Man in the Red Coat” is also quite superb on the era; also brilliantly illustrated.
Love Caillebotte and his perspectives!!
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The painting depicts one of the engineering marvels of Caillebotte’s day, an immense bridge spanning the rail yards of the Gare Saint-Lazare. Two men gaze through the massive iron trellises of the bridge toward the depot, the roof of which is glimpsed between the X-shaped girders at the right. Rather than cloaking the latticework of the bridge in vapor, as Monet did in his contemporaneous views of the station, Caillebotte audaciously exploited its unembellished geometry—the embodiment of brute industrial architecture—to organize his composition. The structural elements of the Le Pont de l’Europe, esquisse, flattened against the plane of the canvas and cut off by its edges, press the figures into the very foreground, inviting the viewer to…
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Shades of Green, Croatia
Impressive!!
I have been thinking a little about Winnicott and meaning to read a book about him by the redoubtable Adam Philips. However, having sufficient reading material in the form of poetry collections, journals, novels and criticism I still find myself scrolling/chillaxing on You Tube where I found this extraordinarily interesting account by Mark Vernon which repays listening through.
I found Vernon’s approach so engaging that I then found myself intrigued by the following clip where his philosophical and theological approach carries some imaginative and enlightening comments. It is also deeply moving.
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