Jane Perkins, an artist based in the UK, brings a new element of fun and life to her artwork by incorporating found material, beads and buttons of bright colours to recreate artwork by masters of the past. Perkins asserts on her website that she enjoys art which is fun and unexpected, and that is certainly what her artwork conveys. 

My personal favourite is her recreation of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss and Monet's waterlilies.

There are so many more on her website so check it out!

Can paintings be too famous to see?

Will Gompertz investigates in this blog piece whether a painting can be too famous or not to see. Do the backgrounds of famous artworks, such as the famous Mona Lisa, cloud our true opinions of the artwork itself...very Walter Benjamin-esque.

Will's article

May be worth reading Walter Benjamin too, it's long but it's interesting. To summarise his work, Benjamin asserts that reproduction of artwork destroys the authenticity or 'aura' of the original. By bringing the artwork closer to us with film and pictures, our opinion of the artwork is decided by the reproduction instead of the original, destroying the true reason it was created.

Walter Benjamin - In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)

Paris!

Paris was so much fun! And so beautiful as well.

Here's a few snaps and highlights from the trip

Some friends and myself at the Louvre

At the eiffel tower with Charlotte

Being tourists

A ceiling in the Louvre

Victory of Samothrace

Selfie with Lisa

The Pompidou Centre

Dali graffiti at the Pompidou

Bridge over the Seine river where people attach padlocks with their's and their lover's initials

Sacre Couer

View of the Eiffel Tower from Sacre Coeur

The July monument by the Bastille

The Eiffel Tower at night

Midnight Eiffel Tower trip to end the trip

I shall be posting more detailed stuff in the coming posts!