some LANDSCAPES

Salomon Gessner, Bucolic Scene , 1767 My post yesterday was about a nineteenth century French-speaking Swiss writer from Geneva; thi...

'A lot of my paintings are anonymous backdrops for the drama of words.  In a way, they're words in front of the old Paramount...

Zhao Mengfu, Water Village , 1302 Source: Wikimedia Commons I have been reading Shane McCausland's scholarly study, Zhao Mengfu:...

I spent Friday and Saturday at In The Field , a symposium on the art and craft of field recording. During the two days we heard about a ...

There is a wonderful description of landscape design in Cao Xueqin's Hong Lou Meng ('Dream of the Red Chamber', c. 1760 - transl...

Edward Lear, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Sunrise, 1859 Source: Victorian Web I have mentioned Edward Lear briefly before - speci...

To Tate Modern for Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons . It’s difficult to be neutral about Cy Twombly, particularly given the extremes of pr...

In his essay 'Painters as Writers' Stephen Spender wrote: 'The meeting place of words and painting is those drawings in which ...

Last weekend I went to the Small Publishers Book Fair at the atmospheric Conway Hall to see Eugen Gomringer talk about and read some of hi...

The Qianlong Emperor, Panshan , 1745   In the Royal Academy ’s Three Emperors Exhibition (discussed last month ) there is another ins...

Roni Horn, Still Water (The River Thames for Example) , 1999 low-resolution photograph taken at MOMA, New York There is a brief clip o...