The Significance Of Our Belongings

"People do not necessarily understand the importance and significance of the things they own."

"It is often the case that observers from other countries or cultures notice things about our behaviour that we do not see because we are so accustomed to the behaviour that we cannot recognise its significance."

 - Arthur Asa Berger, (2009), What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture, Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press.

Pic - Cabinet of Curiosities of Bonnier de la Mosson, Library of the Museum of Natural History, Paris

63,000 Paintings You Can See For Free

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThe BBC 'Your Paintings' project has now digitised 63,000 paintings, from a target of 200,000 works of art, that are not normally accessible to the public because they are either on display in non-public areas such as government buildings, or are in storage in museums where there is not enough wall space to display them.

Click the link and have a poke around.

John Martin's Apocalypse Art in Sheffield

John Martin – Painting The Apocalypse is at The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield from June 22 to September 4. Information 0114 278 2600 or http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/

Article about John Martin at the Yorkshire Post site.

The Seventh Plague of Eygypt - John Martin.

£35m Hepworth Wakefield Gallery Opens

Story from the BBC

Hepworth Wakefield site

Guggenheim Reflections

Image via WikipediaAll art is about reflecting various aspects of life, and in the physical construction of the Guggenheim we see that the museum itself reflects everything - Yorkshire Soul.

Postmodern Architecture

Image via Wikipedia[Postmodern characteristics] “elements that are hybrid rather than ‘pure’, compromising rather than ‘clear’, distorted rather than ‘straightforward’, ambiguous rather than ‘articulated’, perverse as well as ‘impersonal’, conventional rather than ‘designed’, accommodating rather than ‘excluding’, redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well as innovating, inconsistent and equivocal rather than direct and clear” – Robert Venturi.


Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.


The photograph shows "The "Art Ladder", the main staircase of the original Robert Venturi portion of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. The visible statues are Chinese funerary statues: two rams and a civilian guardian" - from Wikipedia.

Post-Modernism

Image by Fran Simó via Flickr“The ideas behind post-modernism are probably most clearly expressed through architectural theory” – Mary Acton

The photo shows a view of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao designed by the architect Frank Gehry.