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About Me
- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
Took in Balke today after Rubens at the RA (quite a difference!). I loved the frightening but somehow personal presences of the mountains (Mount Stendit?) looming out of the fog above the sea. I was also reminded of Caspar David Friedrich who I saw in the summer in Berlin.Thanks for the recommendation.
ReplyDeleteYes a lot of Friedrich in some of his work.
ReplyDeleteI'm not feeling strong enough for the Rubens, and rather doubt I ever will...
Yes a lot of Friedrich in some of his work.
ReplyDeleteI'm not feeling strong enough for the Rubens, and rather doubt I ever will...
It wasn't marvellous. Three fabulous paintings for me - The Garden of Love, Grimaldi and the Dwarf and Pan and Syrinx with a fabulous Cezanne, a great Constable and two Bacons. Not enough of the best Rubens though.
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