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January | 2014 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: January 2014. January 28, 2014. Preparatory thumbnail drawing for current painting) Samantha Groenestyn. While people readily brand drawings and paintings that look like something (representational, rather than purely abstract, art) as ‘realistic’ or ‘classical’, or, god forbid, ‘photographic,’ a word I seldom hear is ‘ naturalistic. Further, this seems an eternal project, as photons continue endlessly to pummel retinas, and ...
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November | 2014 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: November 2014. Ruskin, visual collector. November 20, 2014. Ruskin school of art. Recently presented him in a dedicated exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Literary and Philosophy Library, Newcastle upon Tyne. On revisiting Newcastle upon Tyne and discovering the glorious little haven of the Literary and Philosophy Society Library. His best works on display in Edinburgh were without a doubt. 1847), both sepia studies...
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September | 2014 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: September 2014. September 30, 2014. Hyndland house Samantha Groenestyn, oil on canvas. Sometimes it would be really excellent to have access to an art education, but sometimes you have to find a way to educate yourself. At times like this, the answer might come from Jack White, via a squirrel. Take all your problems and rip ’em apart’: isolate, master, and finally, integrate. George Clausen, whose. Six Lectures on Painting.
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December | 2014 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: December 2014. December 22, 2014. I was so smiled upon by fortune that I lived, for the month of November, in Berlin, with someone very dear to me. Our life was a flurry of activity, of love and painting, chilled grey days and toasty croissant breakfasts, U-Bahn trips populated by the most curious characters, endless halls of incredible paintings, evenings of Aktzeichnen. Artist and –. A faux-physicist. An artist. The artist’...
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June | 2014 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: June 2014. Peace and love, and capitalism. June 22, 2014. Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. I’ve had some acquaintance with the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. Through their open life drawing sessions twice a week during term, so I was happy to hop along to their end of year show and celebrate the conclusion of their first year with them. The Academy’s teaching faculty. Conformal symmetry is pretty mind-blowing! Peace and lov...
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March | 2015 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: March 2015. March 31, 2015. Post Conrad Samantha Groenestyn (oil on canvas). Basilikum (study; oil on canvas). At my forthcoming show. Nothing will be for sale. I don’t want you to come to. Pictures, but to. Not to think of my work as products, but to think of me as a worker. Kohl (study; oil on canvas. Should this idea interest you, and should my work and my ongoing ability to produce it delight you, you need only write to me.
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January | 2015 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: January 2015. On beginning at the beginning. January 30, 2015. The Rokeby Venus (1648-51), by Velázquez. Vienna, has put on a remarkable Velázquez show. That has afforded me a much deeper understanding of this Spanish heavyweight. I know that painters are supposed to adore him by default, but despite the Queensland Art Gallery’s efforts. And London’s National Gallery. The three musicians (1617-18), by Velázquez. 1617-18), who...
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October | 2014 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: October 2014. October 28, 2014. Heather Samantha Groenestyn, oil on linen. For two months I’ve adopted Scotland, once more, as my home. Learning the rugged streets of Glasgow, adopting the frank and fearless tongue of the Scots. Having studied at the University of Edinburgh. I’ve been reading of the vibrant, open and liberal mental environment of Scotland in the eighteenth century in Alexander Broadie’s neat little history.
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February | 2015 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: February 2015. February 28, 2015. Baden (oil sketch) Samantha Groenestyn. Going to the gallery without headphones is a sure way to subject yourself to the painful sound of people trying to demonstrate their. How does one make sense of paintings those vast, still frames; flat surfaces invoking every conceivable illusion in order to masquerade as three-dimensional, as some slice of reality? Perhaps, then, there is something to ...
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April | 2014 | The Duchess
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Send a little 3 and each month to feed a philosopher-painter! Monthly Archives: April 2014. April 26, 2014. Having fallen headlong in love with sculpture. I resolved to start studying it upon my return to Brisbane. And so, once a week at the Atelier. I’ve physically constructed the riddle of the bony eye socket, not a simple rectangle sloping back under the eyebrows, but simultaneously wrapping back around the head and reaching out to the crucial cheekbone turning point where front sharply becomes side&#...
