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Monday, 16 July 2012
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. .(scribbled at 23:30 )
Continuing with all things south of the Thames, the following day I went for a mooch about The Dulwich Picture Gallery for their temporary Warhol exhibition.
Dulwich itself is a lovely place (not one skyscraper in sight- hurrah!), even the guy selling me a 99 Flake was particularly lovely, hahaa. For my first time in the Picture Gallery, I was pleasantly surprised by the brilliance of its permanent collection. Rembrandts, Poussins and numerous other great names hang on its 19th century walls. They've also got a brilliant painting of Judith beheading Holofernes, which is more soft on the eye (if beheading can be soft on the eye?!) than Gentileschi or Caravaggio's depictions of the tragic tale.
I also fell a little for this alterpiece section of St. Jerome and Girolamo Petrobelli, painted by Paolo Veronese, 1563. I rather like how you only catch a glimpse of St. Michael's scales in the work, and yet somehow Veronese has referenced to the saint slaying the devil by the scale motif and Satan's hand alone... genius!
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T-shirt: Andy Warhol Collection at Pepe Jeans.
Yes- I actually wore this to the Warhol exhibition... |
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| Philip Haas: The Four Seasons |
In addition to the nerdiness of coordiating my attire with gallery exhibitions, I've had my nose stuck in Harry Mount's
A Lust for Windowsills over the past week.
Flemish bonding will never be the same again.
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| Whilst waiting for the bus home... |
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
Labels: Andy warhol, ART DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, Dulwich Picture Gallery, judith holofernes, london bridge the shard, Pepe jeans, Philip Haas The Four Seasons, Sartorial, South London
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diaristic ramblings about architecture, design, art, baking and shoes.
...all posts penned by
Vikki, a twenty-something girl based in London (but currently having itchy feet and wanting to move back to Neuilly).
all these poorly taken photographs are indeed my own.
about vikki
basically hangs paintings for a living.
white silver grey haired girl in her twenties, living in London and working in the visual arts.
Usually covered in masking tape and donning a pair of nitrile gloves
alright!!
Fancy a chinwag?
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vermeersvictoriasponge@gmail.com
Liste de tâches
April's To Do List.
1.
take my sister to the Lichtenstein retrospective
2.
See Pae White's show at South London Gallery
3.
Buy and read The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
4.
dye my hair blue
5.
visit The Courtauld's Becoming Picasso exhibition
6.
visit somewhere new in London
7. get my Robert Orchardson print framed...
