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With humblest apologies this week’s art blog, due to be called “G is for…” has had to been postponed due to continuing winterval celebrations. Which is nice. But mark your card now!!! 2019’s art blogs are gonna show such sparkling wit and novel insights that you’ll be delighted to be Continue Reading
The time wasted on the selection of fonts by my son (12 yrs) would be enough for him to write a novel, it makes me scatty that he can be doing his homework for half an hour and not have created a word of actual content, but really likes Garamond. Continue Reading
Thanks for landing here, I continue about art and as you can see from the title this will be a short journey from the sublime to the ridiculous. M C Escher was born in the Netherlands in 1898, he enjoyed drawing as a child and also had done block printing Continue Reading
“The beginnings of Dada, were not the beginnings of art, but of disgust” So said Tristan Tzara at the beginning of Dada in Zurich in 1916. Dada is seen as a reaction to the mechanized slaughter that was happening in World War 1 and is nonsense. Intentionally nonsense that is, Continue Reading
Collection #4 is now live on eBay at Link but this time instead of a week, the auctions will finish on Wednesday 5th December between 7.30ish and 8pm. It will be interesting to see if we still manage a 30% sale rate with the shorter auction. Also quite interesting, I think, Continue Reading
Howdy, I love comics, I love narrative with a graphic pointer, an example of the author/artists vision of the tale to be told. I started reading comics with 2000AD in the late 70s and around the mid 80s began with USA comics such as Batman, just in time to read Continue Reading
Due to a resounding set of requests and my inability to treat numbers in a responsible manner I have decided to put up Collection #1 by Debbie Lear. It was a cold autumn evening when I challenged Debbie Lear to provide me with 10 works to sell and to make Continue Reading
Welcome back to my new weekly blog, as promised this discussion nods affectionately from a distance to the letter B. One of the aspects of any real world art criticism is when folks say “I could have done that” or “my child could do that” despite the obvious fact that Continue Reading
Hi & welcome back returners, apologies for being off line for last few days, I tried to add some commerce to my site and it all went wrong, proper scary ‘Pete Tong‘! Anyhow, part of the reason I’m trying to be more active in blogging and other online forums is Continue Reading
Hello and welcome to a new weekly blog that was inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘abc’ by Bob Adelman in which I will try to write something pithy about art and each letter as they pass by. The ‘I’ in this case is Gary B’stard Art Auctions and you can view Continue Reading