Archive : October, 2012
12 years, 1 month ago
Yeadon's Art Lessons
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Mud Pie (A Test In Observation) At which venerable London art gallery would you find a picture of a mud pie? This innocent reference to childhood play and getting dirty, sand castles and summer holidays, along with a Christmas pudding, illustrations of football, cricket and hunting, a Covent Garden porter, a farmer washing a pig, a coal miner, a contortionist, a girl cyclist and a girl jiving. Where can we find these images of ‘modern’ life, its labours and pleasures? […]