Daido Moriyama, Japanese Photographer: Poetry through the lens

Originally published on the 20th October 2012. In October 2012 I visited an exhibition of Daido Moriyama’s photographs in London’s

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1001 Ways to die (9) – Sylvia Plath, American, Poet, Novelist

Originally published on the 21st February 2012. … DyingIs an art, like everything else.I do it exceptionally well. I do

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Head of a Woman: Picasso’s interpretations of Fernande Olivier

Edited on the 4th September 2024. Originally published on 22nd April 2013. During a visit to Chicago in 2013, I

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Takashi Murakami: Mr Superflat in Palazzo Grassi, Venice

During a 2011 trip to Venice , I visited Palazzo Grassi’s exhibition “The World belongs to you” where I saw

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Harakiri School Girls: by Makoto Aida

“It is spirit, not painting” Makoto Aida Makoto Aida’s work “Harakiri School Girls” is a composition that recurs in the

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Thomas Schütte’s “Großer Geist Nr. 13”

Geist can mean zeitgeist, the Holy Spirit, a powerful mind, clergyman or ghost, and is used to describe the science

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Thomas Schutte’s “United Enemies”

Thomas Schutte is one of my favourite modern sculptors. Back in 2012 I visited his exhibition “Faces and Figures” in

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Chillida: Gruss an (Hommage à) Heidegger

Δοκεί δε μέτα τι είναι και χαλεπόν ληφθήναι ο τόπος “It appears, however, to be something overwhelming and hard to

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Eduardo Chillida Installation: Comb of the Winds, San Sebastian

“Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.”

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Woman Combing/Braiding/Arranging/Caressing her Hair

Originally published in 2009. Revised on 27 May 2025. This is a post about pictures depicting a woman / women

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