October 2010
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William Blake Newton (After Blake) Eduardo...
William Blake Newton 1795
Eduardo Paolozzi Newton (After Blake) 1993
I pass Eduardo Paolozzi’s sculpture Newton (After Blake) nearly every week. It’s outside the British Library. I often eat my lunch under it. It’s based on William Blake’s Newton, pictured above.
Next to Paolozzi’s Newton is a small shrubbery, an atrophied bed constrained by four brick walls....
Paul Gauguin
Gauguin La Perte Du Pucelage (The Loss of Virginity) 1890-91
The model, Juliette, is to bear Gauguin’s child. The fox, representing Gauguin, is the seducer, the trickster. Gauguin was ridden with guilt for lying to women about his feelings in order to seduce them. Yet, if you look at the fox more closely, he’s looking back at you. As you the viewer gaze upon Juliette’s naked...
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