2020 Online Art Exhibitions

There is a very interesting programme on the BBC i/PLAYER  about Maggi Hambling at the moment.

Even if you don't like her work, it's still worth watching,  she is such an interesting character.

I remember going to one of her exhibitions at the Whitworth many moons ago., in her Max Wall period.

 NOT sure what happened there!

Yes I watched it on BBC 4 a week or so ago. I enjoyed it. She is an interesting person. Her Oscar Wild bench was on it. Which was the other sculpture she did, I am trying to remember.
She is a not-right, like most of the others, but thats what makes things interesting.

sunlight wrote:Yes I watched it on BBC 4 a week or so ago. I enjoyed it. She is an interesting person. Her Oscar Wild bench was on it. Which was the other sculpture she did, I am trying to remember.
She is a not-right, like most of the others, but thats what makes things interesting.

It was the one on the beach in Suffolk in celebration of Benjamin Britten.

Aah yes thats the one. I remember in the program they showed a program on television whereby they said she cant smoke while the cameras are on filming her. So she said if you wont let me smoke then I am not talking, I will appear and I will say nothing. That she did. It showed her silently staring into the camera for the part of the show she was on.
Someone kept stealing the cigarette out of Oscar Wildes hand on the bench, in London (?) wherever it was. It now has no cigarette, as they gave up replacing it.

sunlight wrote:Yes I watched it on BBC 4 a week or so ago. I enjoyed it. She is an interesting person. Her Oscar Wild bench was on it. Which was the other sculpture she did, I am trying to remember.
She is a not-right, like most of the others, but thats what makes things interesting.

I remember her being on an arts panel show wearing a moustache.

boltonbonce wrote:
I remember her being on an arts panel show wearing a moustache.

Yes they showed that on the documentary. I cant remember the reason given for that one. She drinks Carlsberg special brew also.

sunlight wrote:
Yes they showed that on the documentary. I cant remember the reason given for that one. She drinks Carlsberg special brew also.

Speaking of Maggi Hambling.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54886813

boltonbonce wrote:
Speaking of Maggi Hambling.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54886813

I was reading through this, as it is interesting. This Woolstonecraft, it says she died in childbirth.
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Died age 38 after giving birth to the author Mary Shelley
unquote

Wow, Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein under a mans name, and was married to the very famous Poet Percy Shelley.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein under a mans name as they wouldnt publish womens authors at the time.

In that article they are not giving us a good photo of the Sculpture
From a distance on it, it appears that the statue part of it is very small overall to the total size of the Sculpture.

Aah yes, further down they do.

FWIW I get what Hambling is aiming for here and the key is that it's not meant to represent Wollstonecroft herself but rather what she helped achieve. Personally, I like it.
I've always like Maggi Hambling and even if she overplays her sexuality and bohemian-ness (or whatever the word is) to the point of being passe, she is always entertaining.

Yes, it seems that it is saying that she was one of the pinacles of the Suffragette movement, but that she was also just one of many many others, that shaped it and worked for it.

A Buddhist clock.

sunlight wrote:A Buddhist clock.

Bloody hell! It's 5 past now already....

wanderlust wrote:
Bloody hell! It's 5 past now already....

  The Joke is funny. The reality is that whenever you look at a clock, no matter what time it is, even if the clock is wrong, it is NOW.

Always leaves me sad, thinking of that poor man.

‘Tis true my form is something odd,
But blaming me is blaming God;
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
If I could reach from pole to pole
Or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul;
The mind’s the standard of the man.
 
Poem by Joseph Merrick, Elephant Man.