Saturday 12 March 2011

PICK ME UP



Contemporary Graphic Art Fair at Somerset House. More here.

Wednesday 2 March 2011

Colonel Gaddafi - The Green Book

Kate Adie: The Gaddafi I knew


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/02/gaddafi-i-knew-kate-adie

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Lindisfarne Gospel



The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke andJohn in the British Library. The manuscript was produced on Lindisfarne in Northumbria in the late 7th century or early 8th century.

Voticism Manifesto






The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis and others established after disagreeing with Omega Workshops founder Roger Fry, and has roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism.



The Stuckists



Stuckism is an international art movement that was founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. The first group of thirteen British artists has since expanded, as of February 2011, to 211 groups in 48 countries. Read their manifesto here.