Advocating life drawing at art school is a deeply conservative and reactionary position. Arguments in

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nginx/1.17.10 favour of life drawing usually fall into one of two camps (or sometimes both). I

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am utterly unconvinced by both. The first, and weaker, argument contends that it is necessary to learn the rules before you can break them. This is an authoritarian position where […]

Der Clapham Strassenbahn When very young, and when not train spotting, I was a keen bus spotter. It was an ideal apprenticeship for a fledgeling art historian. It involved identifying, sometimes at a

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nginx/1.17.10 considerable distance (through rain), the beautifully crafted, hand-built models, of which there were many different marques nginx/1.17.10 and specifications. Every town corporation in the

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county had its […]

Imagine the most absurd and outrageous provocations about art that you can. For example: there is no such thing

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as a pure work of art; artists are unusually ill-informed; there is no market reward for good art; government subsidies

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nginx/1.17.10 make artists poor. Both defensive nginx/1.17.10 supporters of state funding and critical traditionalists will be muttering that art should not be […]