ART HISTORY

GENDER-BENDERS, HERMAPHRODITES AND THE ANDROGYNOUS

When you sit down and watch the fluffy and lighthearted 'Finding Nemo' you don't realise the complex balance of the clownfish 'harem'...

BEARDSLEY REANIMATED

I recently came across an amazing find for you fellow aesthete-lovers. A short film by Chris James called "After Beardsley" (1982). I had...

THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF

Once upon a time there was a young boy. As a lot of young boys like to do, he enjoyed playing tricks on the gullible villagers in the...

MEDUSA AND THE BEAUTY OF HORROR

Our lives are filled with horror, whether this is being accosted by thugs down dark alley or looking at a particularly unpleasant bank...

THE HOMO-UNCONSCIOUSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF "FIGURE D'ETUDE"

Having won the prestigious Prix du Rome in 1834, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, a pupil of Ingres, journeyed to L’Academie de France to learn...

MELANCHOLIA & MATHEMATICS

In the early 19th century, Wackenroder and the Nazarenes re-appropriated Albrecht Dürer by characterizing him as a nationalist figure and...

THE BOREDOM OF ART

Amongst the jackals, panthers, bitches, Apes, scorpions, vultures, serpents, Yelping, howling, snarling, groveling monsters In the...

SILENCE IS GOLDEN

Time for my mini-post and I'm going vastly off-topic from my usual theme but this really struck a chord with me (pun intended). I am...