Saturday, October 06, 2007

chihuly in the V&A at night

a drawing master once told me it was sometimes helpful to look at your work upside down in order to see it with "fresh eyes" and to satisfy doubts about the balance & integrity of the design











the courtyard at the V&A


compare and contrast gandharan buddhas

gandharan buddhas c.4th century from brighton and from the V&A

? looted from the same temple ?





Monday, October 01, 2007

to south kensington and the V&A for an excellent ( and free ) sunday lecture



















the V&A ... the excellence of every art must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose








































these panels above the main entrance to the V&A were made by Drury, the same man that made those huge figures on the downstream side of vauxhall bridge

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/search?q=allegorical+figures+by+drury

in the norfolk house music room ... saved for the V&A from the 1938 demolition


cornelia parker's "breathless" at the V&A

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/british_galls/galleries/55/index.html



chaucer, on glass, and on paper ... by william morris


just how long does it take to cook a dragon's head ?


strawberry hill gothick transferred to the V&A


in the ironwork gallery


model of medusa for a statue of perseus by benvenuto cellini

http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/33762-popup.html


the american blacksmith albert paley's bench at the V&A