Tag Archives: Maev Kennedy

enchanted chessmen: passion and mayhem

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Dave

It is an Island, in the outer Hebrides, that has left behind a legacy of ghosts and spirits that centuries of austere, harsh and sometimes reactionary Christianity have been helpless in extinguishing. They are called the Lewis Chessmen and their … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Harry Potter Chess, Irving Finkel, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Jan Newton, Jeremy Silman, Maev Kennedy, Marcel Duchamp, Nigel Short, Richard Dawkins, Thorarinsson | Leave a comment

Finding bobby fisher: Back to Iceland?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Dave

Maybe the celebrated American chess champion knew something, a secret on the game he never disclosed. On the isle of Lewis on the outer fringe of the Northern Hebrides, the existence of giant chessmen does not go unnoticed. Here, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Bobby Fischer, Danny Yee, David H. Caldwell, Dylan Loeb McClain, Harry Potter, Irving Finkel, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Jan Newton, Jeremy Silman, Lewis Chessmen, Maev Kennedy, Marcel Duchamp, Reuben Fine, Richard Reti, Rudolf Spielman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Taylor Edgar, Tim Cornwell, Vladimir Nabokov | Leave a comment

A COMPLEX HIDDEN SPIRIT:OBSCURED BY THE SUN

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Dave

Atmospherics, visions and hallucinations. A pathological obsession with light. Turner’s paintings, while both beautiful, and ahead of their time, are still considered to be the black sheep of their time. Their unorthodox nature may have overshadowed his goal of bringing … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Charles Holme, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, Ed Voves, George Wyndham, Hannah Danby, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Jon Anderson Yes, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Maev Kennedy, Sarah Danby, Simon Schama, Turner, Yes Fragile, Yes Heart of the Sunrise | Leave a comment

YEARNING FOR A LOST ARCADIA

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Dave

”The genuine friendship, and the enormous benefit it brought to an artist still carving out his reputation, made Turner’s behaviour in 1814, when he put a painting in for the annual British Institution prize, bewildering:( Ian ) Warrell is still … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged A.W.N. Pugin, Arcadia, Charles Martin, Charles Martin caricature, Christian Albion, Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Ian Warrell Tate Gallery, Jacopo Sannazaro, James Thomson, James Thomson The Seasons, JMW Turner, John Constable, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Maev Kennedy, Nicolas Poussin, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah Danby, Simon Schama, Thomas Carlyle, Tom Lubbock, Tom Stoppard, Treaty of Amiens | Leave a comment

CHAOS AND CREATION: ANTAGONIZING THE FIRST MOVERS

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Dave

Joseph Mallord William Turner has been called a single genius; unique among England’s many painters of talent, intelligence and originality. A magician at creating absurd sensory perceptions that evoked deep mystery, and a sense of he fugitive, through a force … Continue reading →