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MIKE HEALEY: Landscape - The Future
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Wednesday, 10 June 2015. Landscape - The Future. IS THIS THE FUTURE OF ART? Great art evolves either slowly, through the accumulation of thousands of tiny yet innovative changes, or dramatically over a short period - as with Cubism. Today we are experiencing rapid changes, often driven by technological innovations and developments that previous artists could only dream of. Take Fractal Art, for example! Salvador Dali may have been the first to explore such extended,...
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MIKE HEALEY: Orientalism and Jean-Leon Gerome
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Thursday, 20 March 2014. Orientalism and Jean-Leon Gerome. If you have been following this blog recently you will know that I am currently engaged in writing a novel about Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. Gerome - Napoleon in Egypt. I also explained in an earlier posting that I was looking at paintings and engravings of the period in order to gain some insight into the Egypt of 1798. Un Combat de Coqs. Gerome - like many artists even today - was assiduous at promoting ...
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MIKE HEALEY: Santiago Caruso
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Thursday, 11 June 2015. Exploring the weird art of Santiago Caruso. The following text is an interview with Argentine artist and illustrator Santiago Caruso conducted by David Davis for 'Wierd Fiction Review'. While you may not recognize his name, chances are that if you’ve read weird fiction, you’ve seen his artwork. Argentine visual artist Santiago Caruso fuses a unique combination of everything from surrealism to the fantastique. I combine religion, politics, and...
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MIKE HEALEY: Magritte and eroticism
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Thursday, 17 September 2015. Warning: this posting contains images of an adult nature]. René Magritte (1898–1967) is one of the most revered and popular artists of the 20th century. Not only was he a major member of the Surrealist movement but his work and style have endured, profoundly affecting modern aesthetics and sensibilities. The Treachery of Images. A pipe; it is a painting. Magritte by Duane Michals (1965). His public image - that of a respectable, bowler-h...
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MIKE HEALEY: What's New?
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Wednesday, 30 October 2013. This week I have started work on a series of colored paintings, using some of the techniques explained els e. Where in this blog for my monochrome graphics work. I am happy to share with you some of these techniques so please revisit this blog soon. Greetings to you all! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There are over 160 articles on art in this blog, ranging from ancient Greece to contemporary artists. View my complete profile. I now ...
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MIKE HEALEY
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Saturday, 1 August 2015. Something old, something new! Rooting through old files recently, I found the following images of earlier work. I thought I might share them with you! This collage (above) was done for a stage poster, long since lost I'm afraid. This photo collage on acrylic is a study for a portrait of Daedelus - the man in Greek legend who flew too near the sun. This picture includes gold paint which is often difficult to handle but seems to work here.
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MIKE HEALEY: Picasso's favourite mistress
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Saturday, 4 January 2014. From time to time I would like to explore the figure or subject behind a painting. This week I have chosen a beautiful portrait by Picasso. January 24, 1932. On 8th January, 1927 - at six o'clock in the evening, on a boulevard in Paris - Picasso met a young, adolescent girl with cobalt blue eyes and a precociously voluptuous body. They met, by arrangement, a few days later outside the Saint-Lazare Metro station. Marie-Thérèse in a beret.
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MIKE HEALEY: Pauline Foures
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Wednesday, 1 July 2015. Those of you who have been kind enough to follow the progress of this project may be interested to know that a major film company has expressed an interest in 'Napoleon's Little Cleopatra'. Following telephone discussions in Paris I have now submitted a revised Treatment for their consideration. I have no idea if they will like it but fingers crossed! Ingres - The Turkish Bath. This is a true story. Thus far I have written 40,000 words but I ...
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MIKE HEALEY: Inshaw/Wilson
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The Studio and Gallery of Mike Healey. Thursday, 13 February 2014. David inshaw is one of Britain's most celebrated figurative art ists and a former member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. This painting was one of the first to establish Inshaw's subsequent reputation as a fine figurative painter. Those familiar with this painter's best work will recognize the sculptured trees, smooth lawns and somewhat menacing skies - as in the equally fa m. Ous painting (above) . Burnt Norton' - part of Four Quartets.