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short film review: BBC ARABIC Film Festival 2017

Today I visited the BBC Arab film Festival 2017, which is a showcase of films from across the Arabic-speaking world, presented by the BBC with the support of the City of London and involving a wide...

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Looking at a painting through the eyes of a filmmaker

A visual essay – click to read or read the text here: This painting by Antoine-Jean Gros is in the Palais de Versailles. Bataille d’Aboukir, 25 Juillet 1799 This is a good example of a ‘cinematic’...

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Swimming against a tide of Price Haggling

Artists are pressured to join the ‘supermarket mentality’ – I find this awful and does artist Glenn Ibbitson. SMOKINGBRUSH With increasing frequency, I am being asked by galleries if they may be...

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Visual Storytelling: the podcast

http://newbooksnetwork.com/gillian-mciver-art-history-for-filmmakers-the-art-of-visual-storytelling-bloomsbury-2016/ A while ago I was invited to do an interview for podcast with the Art Historian...

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Raft of the Medusa – the exciting disaster movie we are all waiting for?

The Raft of the Medusa,  (1818–1819) by the French painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) is a massive painting, well over life size. The closest thing I can compare it to is literally...

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Enjoying ‘Les Halles’

[Léon Lhermitte ‘Les Halles’  1895 – my photograph] Léon Lhermitte ‘Les Halles’ from 1895 is an example of a superbly cinematic painting. Painted well after the establishment of photography, it’s an...

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Paris

chocolate mousse and espresso Enough highminded, intellectual bloggery! I was in Paris! It was wonderful! La belle ville! Bière et vin à Montparnasse  

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Rock of Legend, Legend of Rock: Bob Gruen in Vancouver

  I was lucky that Sharon Steele, a photographer friend of mine, invited to me a show in Vancouver by the legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen. She’s a music photographer herself so she had the...

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The Artist’s Life: Glenn Ibbitson

“rather than direct individual funding, I would rather see public money used to maintain our galleries, art centres and libraries as these are the cradles for our future creatives. Increased respect...

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art into film – Morandi and Antonioni

I’m running a workshop on art and film and yesterday we discussed ‘realism’. I spoke about how Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Red Desert (his 1st colour film) moves between ‘realism’ and ‘not-realism’...

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