Paul Gauguin (1848-1903): Still-Life with Fruit and Lemons, c. 1880 Composed while Gauguin was still working full time as a stockbroker and painting was little more than a hobby to him, this still-life reveals the artist's natural technical skill with brush and canvas. The subject matter is also…
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns… George Eliot
So you could call that a quantum field, or you could call it quantum gravity or space-time geometry - they’re all different descriptions of the same field or phenomenon or entity, which is everywhere. Wherever you go, there it is; that’s where the raw precursors of consciousness exist… Stuart…
Sophie Martin for David Dawson’s brand new Swan Lake. Scottish Ballet… World premiere in spring 2016.
(Photograph by David Eustace)
For many, art is meant to instill a myriad of emotions in the beholder, such as beauty, awe, surprise, sadness, anger, and even disgust. Some artworks generate feelings rather quickly, while others depend on elaborate thought and knowledge. Actually, our response to art always depends on what we…
Claude Monet (1840-1926): Poppies (1873) Now one of the world’s most famous paintings, it conjures up the vibrant atmosphere of a stroll through the fields on a summer’s day. Monet diluted the contours and constructed a colourful rhythm with blobs of paint starting from a sprinkling of poppies. The…
