Friday, July 31, 2015

Weeping angels and Venetian masks : London treasures

This July/August in London we are seeing many things of value.
 Dappled sunlight on "The Weeping Angels" of Nunhead Victorian Cemetery (as in Doctor Who!)









Venetian mask made by Camacana,as used by Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut.
http://www.camacana.com/
Bought second hand in Kentish Town,London.

Also Ravilious at Dulwich Picture Gallery :http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2015/april/ravilious/
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(Wiltshire landscape)

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(The waterwheel)
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(war ship in the arctic)

And Suffragette exhibition at Docklands Museum, incongruously part of the Canary Wharf Global Banking Tower block Empire: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/19/christina-broom-portraits-suffragettes-in-pictures
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Banner declaring unity amongst all women

Ex prisoners carrying emblems of their ordeals
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Womens coronation procession 1911

"The Hunt", Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, extraordinary work with complex and ambiguous perspective on child abuse accusations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(2012_film)
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