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"Heavy Petting" is not too naughty
Local artist Rob McBroom infuses glam-crystals, childhood nostalgia and a hyper-sexed anthropomorphized pussycat at Fox Tax. mndaily.com
Heavy Petting: New Works by Rob McBroom
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are..." exclaims the Owl in Edward Lear's 1871 nonsense poem, The Owl and the Pussycat. While these stanzas likely struck a benevolent tone with 19th-century audiences, Rob McBroom's "Heavy Petting" recasts Owl, Pussycat, and their companions into eerily sensuous settings that drip with references to ad-infused popular culture.
Art: Logos R Us
Minneapolis painter Rob McBroom finds a satirical gold mine in Victorian nonsense verse. StarTribune.com
The story behind the theft of the Mona Lisa
Picasso and poet Appollinaire were prime suspects when Leonardo da Vinci's best known painting was stolen from the Louvre
Carroll sketch sells for £4,800
The original purple ink drawing, sold by Bonhams Auctioneers in London, showed Edith Blakemore holding a bucket and spade and leaning against a wheel and is thought to have been sketched on the beach. Eastbourne Today, 26 June 2008.
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A spokesman for Bonhams said, "He engineered regular meetings with Edith and her mother. Rather unusually for him he carried on corresponding with her until she was much older than he normally carried on.
"She would have been five or six when they met and they stayed in contact for 20 years.
"In March 1890 when she was 18 he described her in a letter as 'my old friend Edith, rather the exception among the hundred or so child friends who have brightened my life.
"Usually the child becomes an entirely different being as she grows into a woman that our friendship has to change too."
The drawing, similar to a version reproduced in the 1982 book The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll, was sold by the Blakemore family along with letters and books sent to Edith, who died in 1947.
Lewis Carroll Sketch To Fetch Thousands
An ink drawing of a five-year-old girl on Eastbourne beach by Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll is expected to fetch thousands of pounds at an auction next week. Carroll was a 45-year-old bachelor and was only five years old when he met Edith Blake
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The picture, done in Carroll's trademark violet ink, shows Edith in a beach costume, holding a bucket and spade and leaning against the wheel of a Victorian bathing machine.
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It is inscribed by Carroll: "Edith, September 14, 1880." -
The picture, done in Carroll's trademark violet ink, shows Edith in a beach costume, holding a bucket and spade and leaning against the wheel of a Victorian bathing machine.
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It is inscribed by Carroll: "Edith, September 14, 1880."
Extraordinary Scenes
Briony Llewellyn on British Orientalist Painting. As Tate Britain mounts an exhibition of work by nineteenth-century Western artists who travelled east, Briony Llewellyn delves into the archives, journals, manuscripts and letters of Edward Lear, Richard D
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Better known as the author of The Dong with a Luminous Nose and other classics of nonsense verse, Edward Lear was also an intrepid traveller and accomplished draughtsman.Ill health and a depressive nature forced him to seek the warmer climate of southern Europe, but it was his constant search for new subjects as a “painter of poetical topography” that inspired his journeyings further afield to Egypt, the Near East and even India. While travelling, he kept journals – some of which were published along with his drawings – and wrote extensive and eccentric letters to his friends. Reflecting both his insecurities and his irrepressible humour, these texts add a remarkable – and delightful – extra dimension to the numerous images that he drew and painted. His recognition of this is perhaps suggested in one of the quirkiest of his self-descriptive aphorisms, when he wrote to his close friend Chichester Fortescue that he considered himself the “Greek Topographical Painter par excellence” and aspired to the title of “Painter-Laureate and Grand Peripatetic Ass and Boshproducing-Luminary-forthwith”.
Book Autopsies
Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures. Centripetal Notion, 19 September 2007.
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