I was listening to a rather fascinating BBC radio programme called 'The Sympathy of Things' (there's a second part this week) and heard about a project undertaken by Thomas Thwaites to build a Toaster pretty much from scratch
Thomas's TED talk about it is insightful and amusing (Thomas also had a project 'living as a goat') certainly gives some focus to the fortunate times we find ourselves in.
PICASSO
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| Nick Pearson knows his Picasso |
The previous Monday Nick Pearson at Orchard Café (OPEN Ealing) set himself the very ambitious target of covering Picasso's works in a single 2 hour lecture.
In fact reflecting on the artist my view is that he was an example of where the Artist is greater than his works - the following day I was at London's National Gallery and marvelling at Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait - I'm not sure I've seen or heard of anything by Picasso that (for me) rivals this.
The talk made me dig out a book Picasso's Picassos I got it (I think) as a teenager it's about 50 years old!
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| A book from my collection |
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