Tag Archives: Leslie Pyke

DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dave

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Benjamin West, Claude Lorrain, David Wilkie, Dr. Johnson, English Landscape painting, George Crabbe, Gerald E. Finley, Handel, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Martin, John Sunderland, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Leslie Pyke, London Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stephen Prickett, Thomas Gainsborough, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

VASE OF ANTIQUITY AND INIQUITY

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Dave

Genie out of the vase. It is an enigmatic urn. During the artistic rape of Europe in the eighteenth century, the ransack that is now known as the Grand Tour, England was flooded with spoils of her wandering noblemen. Paintings, … Continue reading →