I need to give that one
another go as it didn’t quite land for me on my first watch…
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I need to give that one
another go as it didn’t quite land for me on my first watch…
I’m looking forward to to it!
Exciting news! I love Renata Adler’s SPEEDBOAT, so this non-fiction collection definitely appeals. #BookSky 💙📚
Gustav Klimt
Ria Munk on her Deathbed
Playing Prince Charles, perhaps!
Oh, yes. Great shout. I have seen this, but it was ages ago, so a rewatch is almost certainly in order.
A pleasure. I thought it was excellent - so many fascinating artworks to see!
Peter Watson Oil on canvas, 1941 Private Collection
The Village Boys Oil on canvas, 1941 Private Collection The Village Boys was probably painted when Freud was studying at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Benton End. Painted from life, it brings together a series of figures of varying scales. The large central figure and the boy to the right were from the nearby village of Hadleigh. Freud later described the boys 'as very weedy, nasty but strange. Their direct gaze is characteristic of Freud's way of making portraits throughout his life. It's possible that the cropped head to the left of the central figure is a self-portrait. Pinned on the wall behind the boys is a series of life drawings and above them is a painting of a horse's head.
Man with a Feather (Self-portrait) Oil on canvas, 1943 Private Collection Man with a Feather (Self-portrait), is one of the earliest self-portraits in the exhibition and it has psychological drama. Like a saint in a religious icon, Freud holds a feather in his left hand. The mysterious shapes floating on the watery background have been compared to icebergs, which could reference Freud's time in the merchant navy in Nova Scotia. The ominous figures of a crow-like bird and a man wearing a hat appear like shadow puppets at the windows of the building behind the figure.
Caroline Blackwood The writer and Guinness heiress, Caroline Blackwood, was a recurring model for Freud during their short-lived marriage in the early 1950s.The setting for Hotel Bedroom is the Hotel La Louisiane on the Rue de Seine in Paris, where the couple lived for a while. Blackwood is in the foreground while Freud stands at the window. The couple appear to be entirely separate from each other. Blackwood later reflected that although these portraits were regarded as violent at the time, in retrospect, they are thought of as Freud's most romantic. Hotel Bedroom Oil on canvas, 1954 Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Canada.
More pics from the LUCIAN FREUD exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery last week. Some of these artworks have a strange off-kilter quality, as though the familiar and recognisable have been tweaked out of proportion in different ways. #Art #ArtSky #LucianFreud
'She reminded me of some tea-pot with a missing spout, a compass that had lost its hands, an old-fashioned record that had had all its grooves badly scratched. She had a tense, half- apologetic, half-defiant expression on her face...' #BookSky 💙📚
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Screenshot from Letterboxd showing thumbnail pics for 16 films, including Jeanne Dielman, The Headless Woman, Things to Come, Vermiglio and On Body and Soul.
Screenshot from Letterboxd showing thumbnail pics for another 16 films, including An Impossible Love, Green Border, Little Trouble Girls, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl and Anatomy of a Fall.
Inspired by some of the International Women’s Day posts circulated on Sunday, I’ve put together a list of 36 excellent films directed by women (one per director) - all in languages other than English.
Recommendations welcome, esp. for underrepresented regions! #FilmSky #IWD #Films
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Oh, yes…that’s very therapeutic!
Have just messaged you. :)
I must try this one. @annatwigg.bsky.social has also recommended it in the past, IIRC.
'Old Age.' (1922) Marianne von Werefkin was one of the most remarkable women at the centre of Munich’s avant-garde circle at the turn of the 20thC. Her use of non-naturalistic colours freed its descriptive role in painting and deepened her personal connection with the landscape.
I was very affected by this, too. And Eva Henning’s performance is so assured!
This is an excellent film with a very compelling performance by Eva Henning at its heart. Highly recommended! #FilmSky
'Salisbury Cathedral.' (1936) Early in his career, Charles Ginner preferred to paint interiors and street scenes, but after WW1 turned his attention to meticulous study of landscape. Here he includes the Bishop’s Palace, built in 1220, the first structure to be built in the Close
Yes, it’s very memorable!
This podcast is hosted by Caroline Crampton, who I mentioned earlier. :-)
Delighted to have helped spread the word about this one!
Yes, absolutely. She understood the nuances of human behaviour so well.
Oh, I don’t know. @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social or @cacrampton.bsky.social might be your best sources on that question.
'She had the pathos of those hopelessly flawed objects which one often sees being put up for sale in junk shops. She gave the immediate impression of having something vitally important missing. She reminded me of some tea-pot with a missing spout...' 💙📚
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She is so good at capturing a character in just a few sentences. A little reminiscent of Anthony Powell in that respect.
Splendid. Same here, which is always a nice position to be in!
Marvellous stuff!
Reacquainting myself with #MrsPalfreyAtTheClaremont
‘She was a tall woman with big bones and a noble face, dark eyebrows and a neatly folded jowl. She would have made a distinguished-looking man and, sometimes, wearing evening dress, looked as Lord Louis Mountbatten might in drag.’
#NYRBWomen26
A pleasure! DUE TO A DEATH is easily the darkest book I’ve read from the @blpublishing.bsky.social Crime Classes series. It’s so bleak and desolate, very different to the ‘cosy crime’ tone usually associated with that imprint!
Front cover: The Spoilt Kill, Mary Kelly. Illustrated with a painting of a pottery. A ‘BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSIC’
Finished this yesterday. A 1960s pottery in Stoke seems an unlikely setting for a crime novel, but it absolutely works. An air of Endeavour about it in the vivid settings and characters, and the weary, unloved, but sympathetic narrator
An excellent mystery! Have you read Mary Kelly’s DUE TO A DEATH,? If anything, I think it’s even better…and darker in tone.