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WAKEY ,WAKEY........!!!!!!!!!! anyone see the prog re the Summer Exhibition.???
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Just had a look at the forum and sooooooooo few people are posting , I think its virtually dead. Then as I am still awaiting resurection of my blogs over the last almost seven years and others are still tring to find their missing pics I am not terribly surprised.
So, piddled off I may be, and very ready to jack in all asscociation with this site... come on sit up take notice. Yes I know I am an abrasive personage...BUT from an active and reasonably vibrant site I now just find it well.... a bit sad.
Let me start again
Did anyone watch the Summer Exhibition prog last week, ? did you enjoy it ? Did you have a view on it ?
So at the risk of being drummed of hre . Any opinions please .
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Busy day yesterday and still shattered - someone just called to collect a painting and I was fast asleep but now I'm awake I thought I'd take a quick look at the forum. No - didn't see it. Sorry Sylvia - neither active nor vibrant - think I'll have another ton and ginic - the last one had a strange hint of cad red about it - now where did I put my brush?
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Trust you North Light, lol! I missed the show as we were on holiday, I shall have to see if I can download it later.
I've visited the show three times in the last five years and have always enjoyed it. Usually there is some small piece that doesn't scream for attention that I find to be the gem of the show.
Last year my favourite painting was by Ken Howard, I can't remember the title but I remember it to be quite small but yet I kept being drawn to it.
My favourite art prog is Sky Arts portrait painter Of The Year which is very entertaining but has finished its run for this year.
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Syd I know that sinking feeling when everything you have painstakingly written goes Puff into the ether, my language is ripe.
What did you think of the candyfloss pink Rainbow...and the rainbow staircase.?
Wasnt sure about the tons of metal stuff outside in the courtyard...to me thats exactly what they looked like Tons of metal stuff. they are supposed to represent clouds.
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by North Light
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Just watched Harry Hill´s summary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tcz7w
Quoting one of his comments:
"It makes you wonder how some of this got in here"
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I don't take the summer exhibition very seriously I'm afraid, but I've not yet caught up with the current one.
The Forum - it has its peaks and troughs and always has had (at least, for so long as I've known it; it does irritate me that there is an occasional contributor who doesn't actually contribute - the posts are generally off-topic, and seem calculated merely to advertise a website - that sort of self-interested silliness may well put people off from contributing).
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Visiting friends I caught the last half hour more by accident than design and thank the lord for that, dont think I could have stood a full hour of that madhatters tea party! One of the bods in charge, well I think he was, led us to his very very favorite painting in the whole exhibition, a "triangle painted a uniform mat grey green", Oh isn't it wonderful he gushed! The ribald comments from the non artists watching in the room with me were very inventive though not however repeatable in polite society :-). As for the new website well, sometimes it will let me on and sometimes it refuses, it also annoyingly refuses to store my password and as I have given up trying to memorise the dozens of passwords I am seemingly asked to invent for every dam website I visit it becomes a tad confusing. Also living out here with snail pace internet connections (no cable available) loading a gallery page is sheer torture. One good point of the new site is the new post "spell checker" but I did notice that it does not have "website" in its dictionary :-) . Well thats my old git moan for the day!
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I also thought the grey/ green triangle a bit of a piddle take, especially when he said that the artist only painted in this one colour . Well there is an imagination well used .
B & Q , grey paint , a big roller and a few geometric shapes. I am made .
Especially as it was the guy in charge ' s very favourite painting in the whole gallery. I still would like to go along and see it I love the variety in the Summer exhibition when Joe Blogs can have his painting displayed in this very prestigious gallery along with the great and the good ( well they think so ) Very often the talented amateur has suberb work .well worth looking at and enjoying.
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Yes your probably right Sylvia, I would imagine its a totaly different experience to actually be present and soaking up the euphoric atmosphere of the exhibition. The BBC annoyingly always focus on the prattle of personalities rather than the exhibits and the program as presented does not do any favours to art where most non artists are concerned. I take back my praise of the spell checker its dictionary appears to be USA version :-).
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I had a look, as well as you can on screen - I saw Harry Hill wandering round the exhibits: HH is a fan of Damien Hirst, he said: 'you would be', I thought. There was some interesting stuff there - one of the sculptures I liked, and Hill's portrait of some BBC celeb or other whose name just now escapes me was OK. What troubles me about it all as an exhibition - and it's always been the same - is that everything is crowded and crammed together: this is especially true of the paintings, the sculptures at least have a bit of floor space. On balance, I'd like to have gone, but I wouldn't want to exhibit there: the space, and the confusion and crowding seem to reduce everything - paintings need room to breathe.