Author Archives: Helena
Art: Modernist art viewpoints – Michael Fried & Richard Hamilton
Modernist art viewpoints: Michael Fried ‘from “Three American Painters’” (1965) Art in Theory 1900 – 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, VIB9, pp. 787-91 and Richard Hamilton ‘For the Finest Art, try pop’ (1961) Art in Theory … Continue reading
Spring seems close
A couple of recent walks have brought the joyous realisation that spring is nearly here. After a winter dominated by mild, wet, grey weather, the appearance of the sun, snowdrops, celandines, even daffodils, has caused much excitement, and I feel … Continue reading
Poem: Winter Evening by John Clare
John Clare is my favourite of the Romantic poets. When I read his nature poems, I feel that he writes as part of his beloved landscape around Helpston; he is too close, too involved, to take the role of mere … Continue reading
Exhibition review: Memorious Earth: A Longitudinal Study
‘1337’ (2013) ‘Memorious Earth: A Longitudinal Study’, an exhibition by Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton, is the latest in an extensive artistic and poetic exploration of our landscape. Experiencing the exhibition, I felt it reminiscent of Richard Long’s Ten Days … Continue reading
Film Review: Boyhood
Every now and again a film comes along that isn’t just a good film as in it’s well written, well acted, well directed. Special films are more than the sum of their parts, and Boyhood is one such film. With … Continue reading
