Birds, Butterflies and a Frog among Plants and Fungi

Artists own notes, July 2010.

Melchior d'Hondecoeter: Birds, Butterflies and a Frog among Plants and Fungi (1668).

This was the other painting that was observed in the National Gallery when I saw the painting by van Os. Further review to follow.

Jan van Os | Fruit and Flowers in a Terracotta Vase | NG6520 | The National Gallery, London

Artists own notes, July 2010.

Jan van Os, Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, 1777-8

This is a painting that I found in a quite corner of the National Gallery, I actually did a study of two paintings in this room (the other was Birds, Butterflies and a Frog among Plants and Fungi) I did not take note of the other paintings in the room in but will return to investigate this.

I have decided that the next collection of works will all stem from the idea's and visual cue's embedded within this van Os masterpiece. Further notes etc to follow.

Martin Scheoller

Martin Scheoller: Christine Roth, 2004

Portraits in general but I am particularly drawn to the uncompromising simplicity of the female body builders collection.

The Haunting

Cyprien Gaillard, Belief in the Age of Disbelief
Les deux chemins au ruisseau / étape VIII, 2005
Etching (14.57 x 16.93 inches framed), 7.09 x 7.87 inches

Belief in the Age of Disbelief (Paysage aux trois tours), 2005, 6.69 x 9.06 inches.

This article in Frieze titled The Haunting is written by Jennifer Higgie.

It discusses Death within art and what the legacy of this is. Artworks / texts to be reviewed and provide clue's towards a new practice, some of my notes:

History - Ignore at your peril, yet do not bask within it's authority as it is very slippery.

Reviewing / looking at artworks of the past help the development of ones own practice and release a conversation that is being held.

Cyprien Gaillard is named to review in connection. The image above relates to the text below as found on the website: www.bugadacargnel.com

Cyprien Gaillard
Belief in the Age of Disbelief (Paysage aux trois tours)

In 'Belief in the Age of Disbelief', GAILLARD has introduced tower blocks into 17th Century Dutch landscape etchings. These post-war structures, once a symbol of utopian promise that have now come to represent racial conflict, urban decay, criminality and violence, have been seamlessly assimilated into a rural idyll. Some tower blocks have been positioned in the composition like a defiant medieval fortress, others as apocalyptic ruins. Like the paintings of Hubert ROBERT, admired by DIDEROT, who depicted ancient ruins and even the imaginary future ruins of the Louvre (1796), GAILLARD comments on the relationship between romanticism and decay, and architectures' inherent communicative power.

Mary Shelley.

I'm reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the moment, it is a haunting tale but one that I am really enjoying. This book has significance to me and is possible a link for my new body of research as I have been told since a child that we are related. I have recently discovered that this cannot be true as there are no direct descendants, I will have to investigate this further.
Perhaps more disapointing is the loss of a link to Mary's mother: Mary Wolstonecraft.