Index: Sculpture

Some Things I Recently Saw In France

> Sketchbook, Art, Culture, Design, Fashion

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The pulpit beneath a carved depiction of the daily ecstasy and rapture of Mary Magdalene, The Basilica of St Maximin, Aix-en-Provence • the pulls of a small organ in the same Basilica • a standard roadside boulangerie, the A52 at Roquevaire, Aix-en-Provence • Some opulence in the Palace of Versailles • some unruly triffids spilling out in the 7th arrondissement • a mannequin on the Rue de la Fontaine au Roi • I spy you up there, above the frieze, amidst yet more opulence in the Palace of Versailles • Welcome to the opulence of the Palace of Versailles! • a folio at Les Puces • Dior Barbie • A horn of plenty amidst the opulence of the Palace of Versailles • An antique pair amongst antiques, St Maximin, Aix-en-Provence • Caryatids by Pierre Lescot in the Louvre • Marianne above the Place de la République

Alchemy

Art, Culture

All three seen in quick succession at among the endlessly rewarding collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The first a machine gathering and harnessing negative space, the second a master class in electrifying it, the third a cabinet for storing it. All together though, they are a healthy reminder that alchemy can occur, must occur, in art – in the way ordinary materials like wood, stone and wire are transformed – as expressive as words in a poem.