tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post8277062312496027116..comments2024-02-05T09:17:53.322-08:00Comments on Adrian Barlow's blog: Paul Nash and the view from Queen Alexandra MansionsAdrian Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-26110813976582374482020-11-16T05:49:39.606-08:002020-11-16T05:49:39.606-08:00Many thanks, Susannah, for this comment. I shall f...Many thanks, Susannah, for this comment. I shall follow up on Guy Shrubsole’s research. Best wishes, Adrian Adrian Barlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-73618654105431366382020-11-11T06:40:26.651-08:002020-11-11T06:40:26.651-08:00I agree about Margaret Odeh, she has disappeared f...I agree about Margaret Odeh, she has disappeared from view in a way that she did not deserve. Guy Shrubsole has done some research into her campaigning life, and she seems to have been both forceful, forward thinking and organised.Susannah (Crownfolio)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14554993966917048794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-13036146573588436982020-08-22T02:36:54.448-07:002020-08-22T02:36:54.448-07:00Glad you enjoyed my blog, Colin. You might also en...Glad you enjoyed my blog, Colin. You might also enjoy 'Still Life: Strange Lives' (https://adrianbarlowsblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/still-life-strange-lives.html) which I wrote while the were all still in lockdown.<br />AdrianAdrian Barlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-71151499672329950212020-08-21T00:03:19.483-07:002020-08-21T00:03:19.483-07:00Many thanks, Peter. I’m grateful for the Nash (via...Many thanks, Peter. I’m grateful for the Nash (via Herbert Read) quotation, which I’ve not come across before. And I shall look forward to ‘Outline’. I have to say, I think I find ‘Northern Adventure’ a more interesting experiment than you do, particularly as a contrast with ‘St Pancras, London’. Adrian Barlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-22034564889775947502020-08-20T13:37:27.626-07:002020-08-20T13:37:27.626-07:00Adrian, I was delighted to see this Paul Nash stil...Adrian, I was delighted to see this Paul Nash still life in colour. For some reason, I've only seen it in black and white reproduction; which strictly speaking is pointless. It is a study – and a very successful study – of “St Pancras pinks” (though not of Barlow Blue!).<br /><br />“Northern Adventure”, on the other hand seems to me an experiment that doesn’t quite work. The window, top right, is too prominent, and detracts from the main composition, which in itself seems to me to be a mishmash of styles that I find hard to trace to their sources.<br /><br />Although it is of course not thematic of St Pancras, I find the painting “Dead Spring”, as illustrated in Robin Cantus’ piece, to be of much greater interest. As a semi–cubist work in an English mode it coheres wonderfully, and the colours – the subdued browns of the dead foliage, the sage greens, the blacks, the whites, the curious “earth–purple” of the flower pot – are, I think, deeply satisfying. And as to any meaning it may have, I'm not in the least concerned with this. I think that the primary concern with paintings is, “Do they work?” Herbert Read in the Penguin Modern Painters slender volume on Nash (1944) quotes Nash, writing about the English idiom (the English artist) as having, “A peculiarly bright delicacy in his choice of colours—somewhat cold, but radiant and sharp in key. That I think is exemplified in “Dead Spring”.<br /> <br />Nash’s “Outline: An Autobiography” is a delight if you’ve not come across it.<br />Peter Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16448566004422403386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-91219241915560401092020-08-18T13:26:53.962-07:002020-08-18T13:26:53.962-07:00How very interesting this blog is, Adrian.How very interesting this blog is, Adrian.Colin Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006680803753278908noreply@blogger.com