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martyn142
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 Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject: The Met |
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I can't see any mention of the David McSorley exhibition (see Aber home page) on The Met site. Has anyone got any links to his work? I believe he is a local artist isn't he?
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martyn142
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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I popped in to see the exhibition yesterday when picking up tickets for Two on 5th April. There are some pretty good pieces there, especially some of the pastels. I am not keen on the subject matter of some of it - lots of tigers, lions and wolves - but there were a couple of impressive landcapes.
On another note I went to the National Museum in Cardiff this week too. They have a fantastic exhibition of French painters, mostly impressionists/post-impressionists. Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Manet, Cezanne - it's pretty amazing to have these on your doorstep. |
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Tchambuli9
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| martyn142 wrote: | I popped in to see the exhibition yesterday when picking up tickets for Two on 5th April. There are some pretty good pieces there, especially some of the pastels. I am not keen on the subject matter of some of it - lots of tigers, lions and wolves - but there were a couple of impressive landcapes.
On another note I went to the National Museum in Cardiff this week too. They have a fantastic exhibition of French painters, mostly impressionists/post-impressionists. Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Manet, Cezanne - it's pretty amazing to have these on your doorstep. |
Yes it's great isn't it? and with the train it's even more accessible & cheaper.
Talking of local artists did you enjoy the Augustus John paintings in Cardiff? |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Talking of local artists did you enjoy the Augustus John paintings in Cardiff?
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Local  Do you mean local, being born in Wales
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martyn142
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Tchambuli9 wrote: | | martyn142 wrote: | I popped in to see the exhibition yesterday when picking up tickets for Two on 5th April. There are some pretty good pieces there, especially some of the pastels. I am not keen on the subject matter of some of it - lots of tigers, lions and wolves - but there were a couple of impressive landcapes.
On another note I went to the National Museum in Cardiff this week too. They have a fantastic exhibition of French painters, mostly impressionists/post-impressionists. Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Manet, Cezanne - it's pretty amazing to have these on your doorstep. |
Yes it's great isn't it? and with the train it's even more accessible & cheaper.
Talking of local artists did you enjoy the Augustus John paintings in Cardiff? |
I didn't see them no. I am not sure I saw the whole collection although I tried  Do you know if they are permanently displayed and, if so, where? |
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Tchambuli9
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| martyn142 wrote: | | Tchambuli9 wrote: | | martyn142 wrote: | I popped in to see the exhibition yesterday when picking up tickets for Two on 5th April. There are some pretty good pieces there, especially some of the pastels. I am not keen on the subject matter of some of it - lots of tigers, lions and wolves - but there were a couple of impressive landcapes.
On another note I went to the National Museum in Cardiff this week too. They have a fantastic exhibition of French painters, mostly impressionists/post-impressionists. Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Manet, Cezanne - it's pretty amazing to have these on your doorstep. |
Yes it's great isn't it? and with the train it's even more accessible & cheaper.
Talking of local artists did you enjoy the Augustus John paintings in Cardiff? |
I didn't see them no. I am not sure I saw the whole collection although I tried Do you know if they are permanently displayed and, if so, where? |
I'm not sure but I can find out. I understand that the artist was quite a character. |
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Carolyn
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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I believe they are permanently displayed at the maritime museum in Tenby where he was born as are those of his sister Gwen the last time I visited
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martyn142
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Carolyn wrote: | | I believe they are permanently displayed at the maritime museum in Tenby where he was born as are those of his sister Gwen the last time I visited |
I didn't even know there was a maritime museum in Tenby!  Wherebouts is it? I wouldn't make a special journey but I'll keep an eye out if I am down there.
They had postcards of his portrait of Dylan Thomas at Cardiff so I thought maybe they had it in their collection but I didn't see any so maybe it is in Tenby. |
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Carolyn
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It is in the North beach area on the cliff overlooking the harbour. You can walk up to it via castle hill. The house where he was born is on the right hand side towards the bottom of the hill when you walk down to the harbour from the town
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Carolyn
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Years ago it was a tiny maritime museum but now a museum and art gallery
http://www.tenbymuseum.org.uk/
Wilfred Harrison Gallery
http://www.tenbymuseum.org.uk/id10.htm
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martyn142
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Thanks for that Carolyn.  |
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Ian
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Martyn,museum has certainly been in the place Carolyn describes since I went there when I was about 11/12 years of age,(you know how long that was ago!!)BTW are you having trouble sleeping or is the clock on your PC wrong 
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martyn142
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| Ian wrote: | | Martyn,museum has certainly been in the place Carolyn describes since I went there when I was about 11/12 years of age,(you know how long that was ago!!)BTW are you having trouble sleeping or is the clock on your PC wrong |
It's the excitement of a trip to Wembley tomorrow Ian!  |
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| Quote: | | Tchambuli9 wrote:I'm not sure but I can find out. I understand that the artist was quite a character. |
Augustas John early work mainly consisted of etchings or drawings he later developed a style of portait painting that was often very imaginative to say the least and well known for the psychological insight of his portraits many of which were considered "cruel" for the truth of the depiction.
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Carolyn
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Talking of painters......
| Quote: | The overweight JobCentre manager whose nude portrait is set to fetch £18million
A painting of a naked JobCentre manager by Lucian Freud is expected to become the most expensive picture by a living artist ever sold when it goes under the hammer in New York next month.
The 85-year-old artist's huge canvas is predicted to make up to $35million (£18million) for its owner, a European collector, at a Christie's sale on 13 May.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/...cle_id=558925&in_page_id=1770
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