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| Alison Watt Flexion 2002-2003 oil on canvas Scottish Parliament Art Collection, Edinburgh |
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| Geoff Uglow Dome, Florence 2000 oil on board Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Geoff Uglow Castle Eilean Donan 2010 oil on board Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Sean Scully Wall of Light, Red Summer 2003 oil on canvas Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria |
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| Sean Scully Pink Dark Triptych 2011 oil on linen Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex |
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| Sean Scully Colourland 2005 oil on canvas Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland |
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| Ian McKeever Sentinel X 2003 oil and acrylic on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Danny Markey Pizza Hut ca. 2001 oil on board Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
from Dialogue of Pictures and Painted Tables
Gaudium [Joy] – I am delighted with pictures, and painted tables.
Ratio [Reason] – A vaine delight, and no lesse folly then hath raigned sometyme in great personages, and no deale more tollerable then it hath ben in olde tyme. For every evyl example is then worst, when as eyther the weight of auctoritie, or of yeeres is ioyned unto it. The force of custome [increases with age] from whence soever it tooke beginning, and age as it advaunceth good thinges to better, so doth it cast downe evyl thinges to woorse. But O, I would God, that ye that do far surpasse your auncetours in vaine things, would matche them in earnest matters, and with them would esteeme of glory and vertue, with whom ye stand fondly gazing at Pictures without ende.
Gaudium [Joy] – Truly I am woonderfully delighted with painted tables.
Ratio [Reason] – O woonderfull madnesse of mans minde, which woondreth at evry thing, saving it selfe, [than which] there is nothing not only among all the woorkes of art, but also of nature, more woonderful.
Gaudium [Joy] – Painted tables delight me.
Ratio [Reason] – What mine opinion is herein, thou mayest perceive in that which I have sayde before. All earthly delyghtes, if they were governed by discretion, would styre men up to the heavenly love, and put them in minde of their first original. For, I pray thee, who ever loved a river, and hated the head thereof? But you weltring heavily upon the ground, stouping, and as it were fastened to the earth, dare not look upwardes to wardes heaven, and forgettyng the chiefe woorkeman [of the Sunne and Moone], with marvellous pleasure ye beholde [their] slender pictures, and where the passage is to the highest places, [you look down, and] there ye ende the boundes of your understanding.
Gaudium [Joy] – I am specially delyghted with painted tables, and Pictures.
Ratio [Reason] – Thou conceivest delight in the pencill and colours, wherein the price, and cunning, and varietie, and curious dispersing, doth please thine eye: even so likewyse the lively gestures of lyvelesse pictures, and the [motions of unmovable images], and countenaunces comming out of poastes, and lively portraitures of faces, doo bryng thee into woondring, insomuch as thou wilt almost thynke they would speak unto thee: and this is the onely danger in this behalfe, in that many great wittes have been [those most] overtaken by these meanes. So that, wheras the clowne and unskylfull person will with small woondryinig pass them over: the wyser wyll repose hym selfe with sighing and woondring.
– De remediis utriusque fortunae, written in Latin by Petrarch, 1354-1366, translated into English in 1579 by Thomas Twyne as Phisicke against Fortune, quoted by Michael Baxandall in Giotto and the Orators (Clarendon Press, 1971)
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| Danny Markey Figures on a Beach ca. 2002 oil on canvas Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
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| Ian Kirkwood Violet Blue and Orange 2001 oil on canvas Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, Wales |
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| Nick James Le Oiseau ca. 2003 oil on canvas Coventry University, Warwickshire |
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| Ghislaine Howard The Washing of the Feet 2004 acrylic on canvas Oxford Brookes University |
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| David Hockney Bigger Trees Near Water 2007 oil on canvas and digital prints on paper Tate Modern, London |
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| Brian Grassom Pisa Baptistry ca. 2001-2003 oil on board Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Emma Francis Lost 2004 oil on board Southampton Solent University |