Next Stop Paris! – Just the Art
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You can’t fight City Hall! Or so the saying goes. Although I don’t think they were referring to London’s City Hall, just the notion of the powerful bureaucracy of a nameless city. City Hall’s a distinctive building on the south bank of the Thames. It represents the centre of local government for the London area.
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Building melts cars! Or so the headlines went the construction of 20 Fenchurch Street or the Walkie Talkie was nearing completion in Sept 2013. Somewhere in the planning of a skyscraper that faces south nobody had considered that concave glass surfaces focus the sun’s rays. Dispite the fact it’s happened before! This was the first time
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HMS Belfast is an impressive sight. I was naturally drawn to its elegance, and the chains. Floating on the Thames it’s now a museum. A popular attraction it has a serene elegance despite its lethal abilities. Even though it has been decommissioned, those guns still hint of menace. You know they were once fired with
HMS Belfast Painting Deadly Elegance? Read More »
All artists steal ideas? Or, as Picasso himself said,”Good Art is borrowed, great art is stolen” or so the line goes. If this were a record it would be a cover. The imagery is not my original idea in that the sculpture has existed and was created some time ago, but I see something else.
Hello or Farewell Tommy? Historic lovers embrace? Read More »