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Wunderkammer 2018: Hot off the Presses!

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This year’s much anticipated edition of Wunderkammer flew off the presses literally a day before both London and New York study trips. This year’s cover has been illustrated by Falmouth Illustration alumna and rising star Ana Jaks.

The standard of work in this year’s book is extremely high, showing the full range of talent that is about to graduate from the BA(Hons) Illustration course here at Falmouth. All staff that have taught the current final year students through the course can, alongside the students, take a share in the high quality of the work published in the book. Particular credit goes to the third year staff for the huge effort that they have made to research, design co-ordinate the production of this book.

Thanks also go out to the alumni who have contributed insightful interviews. These include: Calum Heath, Beth Wheatley, Owen Gent and Hugh Cowling (Uncle Ginger), Jamie…

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Riot at the King’s Theatre in 1813 – All Things Georgian

We used to have a small Georgian Theatre in Penzance!

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catalani Mme Angelique Catalani de Valabregue, J.F. Moeller, 1829. Courtesy of National Museum of Denmark

On Saturday 1st May 1813 at the King’s theatre a serious disturbance broke out, proceeding apparently a call from the audience for the reappearance of Madame Catalani, who had withdrawn her services from the theatre as they had not paid her monies owed for…

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Von den Schwierigkeiten der Auftragsarbeit und einer gruenen Gerbera – Susanne Haun

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Entstehung Gerbera - 25 x 25 cm - Tusche auf Hahnemuehle Aquarellkarton (c) Zeichnung von Susanne HaunEntstehung Gerbera – 25 x 25 cm – Tusche auf Hahnemuehle Aquarellkarton (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun

Man sollte meinen, dass Blumen zeichnen kein Problem für mich darstellt.

Blumen gehören zu meinem Repertoire, weckt man mich in der Nacht auf und sagt “Zeichne eine Gerbara!” dann sollte ich die Blüte im Schlaf zeichnen können.

Und genau da liegt das Problem! Ich zeichne, was sich in meinem Inneren befindet und auch eine Blume muss aus meinem Inneren herauswollen. Ich benötige dafür Ruhe, Wollen, Lust und Freude!

Den Auftrag für die heute gezeichnete Gerbera bekam ich eine Woche nach dem Afrikaurlaub, heute habe ich endlich (!) Lust und Muse dafür gefunden und bin mit dem Ergebnis zufrieden.

Eigentlich kein Wunder, dass heute der Tag der Entstehung war, die Gerbera war in der Farbe Maigrün gewünscht und schließlich beginnt morgen der Mai!

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Visiting Town Blues

Walking for my morning coffee

through the falling rain,

I feel again the cold and my toothache pain,

leaving the bus, negotiating the speeding traffic

through what to me feels a rush,

reaching the corner, a hush as

slipping along the side street,

avoiding sudden traffic, above the narrow pavement,

I notice the broken awning.

Here next to the closed, derelict barber’s shop,

three gobbling pigeons have found

a box-shaped shelter; a tabloid sized hole

from where a torn out section of thin wood

and have made a home, an aviary,

a sort of “rus in urbe” among the tangled wires.

The birds bob and cheerfully chirp exchanges.

In this section life flourishes.

I stop to snap these jovial creatures that

triumph amidst the clutter,

defeating austerity, likewise

I recover my affection for broken places

….and the game is still on.

 

 

 

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Andrés Nagel Tejada-Basque painter, sculptor and engraver

Andrés Nagel Tejada (San Sebastián, 1947) is a Spanish painter, sculptor and engraver, one of the current Basque artists with the greatest international projection.

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An artist with eclectic tastes, a great traveller and with a history of many exhibitions, his work in painting, sculpture and engraving can be labelled as a postmodern figuration.  In working against the mainstream, in the years 60 and 70, he followed  an  abstract and informalist path.  Nagel addresses mostly social issues with some sarcasm and irreverence, in a style that at times echoes the New Madrid figuration and also adopted influences of pop art (in colourful and urban themes), surrealism (with shocking and humorous approaches) and Povera art ( using humble materials and wastes).

Further information in Spanish is at https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Nagel

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Ferdinand Hodler, Distant mountains, 1895-1902

Holder was a great influence on the Viennese painter Richard Gerstl. He also reminds me a little of the Cornish Symbolist Thomas Cooper Hitch.

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By 1895, Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) was turning to more Symbolist paintings and developing his mature ‘Parallelism’ from there.

hodlerretreatmarignanocompostudy Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918), Retreat from Marignano (composition study) (c 1897), pencil and gouache on fabric, 43 × 65 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.

In 1897, Hodler won the commission to paint a large fresco in the Weapons Room of the Swiss National Museum (Schweizerisches Landesmuseum) in the centre of Zurich. Oddly, Hodler proposed depicting the Battle of Marignano, fought between France and the Old Swiss Confederacy near Milan in 1515. The French had been the victors there, leaving the defeated Swiss with around 50% casualties.

This compositional study for Retreat from Marignano was made in about 1897, using pencil and gouache on fabric. From its inception, the painting is composed as a frieze in two planes, with most of its figures in the nearer plane.

hodlerretreatmarignanostudy Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918), Retreat from Marignano (study)…

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Mädchen mit Blumenkranz im Haar – Zeichnung von Susanne Haun

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Heute war ich einfach den ganzen Tag müde,aber wie ein kleines Mädchen wollte ich lieber Zeichnen als ins Bett gehen.

So sind die beiden heutigen Portraits von einem Mädchen mit Blumenkranz im Haar entstanden. Ich sehe in der Zeichnung das Modell vor mir und ich sehe auch mich und meine Trotzhaltung darin. So ist die Ähnlichkeit zu meinem ursprünglichen Modell verlorengegangen aber der Augenblick festgehalten wo ich als Frau über 50 mich wieder in ein trotziges kleines Mädchen verwandele.

Deshalb mag ich diese beiden Portraitzeichnungen besonders.

Mädchem mit Blumen im Haar - 25 x 25 cm - Tusche auf Hahnemuehle Burgund - Version 1 (c) Zeichnung von Susanne HaunMädchem mit Blumen im Haar – 25 x 25 cm – Tusche auf Hahnemuehle Burgund – Version 1 (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun

Mädchem mit Blumen im Haar - 25 x 25 cm - Tusche auf Hahnemuehle Burgund - Version 2 (c) Zeichnung von Susanne HaunMädchem mit Blumen im Haar – 25 x 25 cm – Tusche auf Hahnemuehle Burgund – Version 2 (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun

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Comparative Literature, a Very Short Introduction, by Ben Hutchinson #BookReview

This sounds really thoughtful and interesting!

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I can’t think of a better way to explain the complexities of the term ‘comparative literature’ than to quote the blurb for this book:

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at “comparison” have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? Ambitious readers looking to stretch themselves are usually intrigued by the concept, but uncertain of its implications. And rightly so, in many ways: even the professionals cannot agree on a single term, calling it comparative in English, compared in French, and comparing in German. The very term itself, when approached comparatively, opens up a Pandora’s box of cultural differences.

Yet this, in a nutshell, is the whole point of comparative literature. To…

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Lady Bird (Film Review) – The Film That Should Have Won Best Picture

A really enjoyable film and an interesting review.

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Jack B Yeats

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Having spent a good hour looking at the Expressionist paintings in the Emil Nolde exhibition at the National Gallery, I decided to go and have a look at some favourite paintings by the Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats in the Gallery’s permanent collection, who, over his career, developed an Expressionist style.

IMG_6144.jpgMany Ferries (1948)

Jack Butler Yeats was the brother of the famous poet, William Butler Yeats. He was born in London and spent his childhood between London, Dublin, and Sligo, eventually returning to live permanently in Ireland in 1910.

Jack began his artistic career, in the 1890s, as a black and white journalistic illustrator for various publications before eventually becoming a professional artist. He initially painted in watercolour, but about 1906 he began painting regularly in oil. His early paintings were rather conservative in style and, in my view, most of his paintings, although displaying a clear talent as…

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