Statement of Intention

Art Bible hopes to be your favorite repository of good Art writing, with a good lean towards a Creative Art Writing. Art Bible is essentialist :- About the Mind of the painter / Artist About their intensions About thinking through the process of making Or making as thinking It’s about the ablity of Art to…

The Grind & The Gift – Paul Housley

Factory to Palace — Paul Housley at the Sid Motion Gallery Ends 23rd Dec 2016 http://www.sidmotiongallery.co.uk Empty Frame, 2016 Studio time is sacrosanct for the artist Paul Housely. As he puts it, “you can have the gift, but you need to have the grind as well” to make something of it. You got to have the the grit…

Frank Bowling: Right Here. Right Now.

British Master Colourist, wows next generation with Show at Chelsea College of Art By Giuseppe Marasco The Chelsea College of Art presents an exhibition of the painter, Royal Academician, Frank Bowling and his partner Rachel Scott. Located opposite the Tate Britain, one need only cross the college’s open square to the Triangle Space & Cookhouse…

Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings.

Past show http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/infinitas-gracias.aspx Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings. Wellcome collection offers a library of extraordinary commemoration stories By Giuseppe Marasco Current exhibition of  The Mexican votive Paintings at the Wellcome collection . Are prepared and offered to a chapel in thanks for miraculous assistance or relief in a time of need.  Dating from the Revolution…

Mayan Fifth World begins. Coming soon

Prepare for the Mayan Fifth World. Coming Soon. Work On paper.   Currently on view at the http://lionandlambgallery.co.uk/ End ofthe World? And here is a nice clarificatory article. The comments section contain several interesting additional points. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/what-have-the-mayans-ever-done-for-us-apart-from-predict-the-end-of-the-world-8424562.html

Giovanni Bellini, The Dudley Madonna

Book Review.  By Giuseppe Marasco Bellini is one of the most celebrated and influential Italian artists. Venetian. Pioneering portrayal of natural light. Dürer thought him the best of all artists. popularizer of the “eyewitness” style. The most famous work of his in England was the Doge Leonardo Loredan  at the National Gallery. The past tense is…

In Abstratto – Italians Do it Better

In Abstratto – A must-see show, extraordinarily heterogenous and dynamic life in paint-collection and outlook. The idiosyncratic and the unique. A Wonder Room of over 50 Abstract Italian artists. To open up a catalogue from the MoMa, Guggenheim and so on is to see just how much of the history of modern art has been written…