| A few years ago I had the good fortune to
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| | is often seen in works alluding to
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| visit Barcelona for a week and feast my
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| | something higher or deeper but lacking
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| eyes and heart on that city's rich visual
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| | any solid foundation. How can I say this?
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| heritage. During this time I visited the
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| | Well I can only go on my inner feeling
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| Picasso museum, which chronicles his life
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| | when I look at art and if a piece moves
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| by displaying drawings, paintings and
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| | me then I am grateful and encouraged, and
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| sculptures selected from his prolific
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| | if it doesn't move me, then I move on.I
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| output. It does appear true that in his
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| | would like to recommend Masaccio
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| youth he could draw as well as many a
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| | (1401-1428) to anyone that has not heard
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| master before him. `Conventional' in
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| | of him. He is regarded as the first great
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| execution, his early drawings are
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| | painter of the Italian Renaissance and
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| testament to his huge talent and skill,
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| | greatly influenced those who came after
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| which he used in various ways throughout
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| | him. I love his work not because of his
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| his career.As Picasso went through life,
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| | ground-breaking use of perspective, but
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| he seemed to be searching for a way to
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| | for the power and emotion that underpin
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| draw like a child again and produce works
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| | them. Two of his pictures that move me
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| that had the simplicity and spontaneous
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| | most profoundly are frescoes painted for
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| magic of a child's creation. However,
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| | the Brancacci Chapel, Italy. They are:
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| there is a period in his life around
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| | `Saint Peter Baptizing' and `The
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| 1922-23 when he produced the works that I
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| | Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise'.
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| love the most. I have a card entitled
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| | These contain a volcanic energy that
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| `Mother and Child', a reproduction of a
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| | simmers and boils, barely contained
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| Picasso whose original is currently in
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| | within the painted surface of the works.
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| the Baltimore Museum of Art that is so
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| | It came as no surprise to me that he was
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| beautiful it almost makes me weep to see
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| | a deeply spiritual person and his
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| it. It shows two figures so utterly at
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| | religious works reflect this. In
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| ease with each other, in a soft and
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| | contrast, many of those who came after
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| tender exchange that it conveys
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| | him produced work that was technically
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| perfection in contentment and mutual
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| | more advanced and refined but lacking
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| self-absorption.Softness and tenderness
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| | spiritual depth. Michelangelo had power,
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| are two qualities that actually rarely
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| | Raphael had refinement, Leonardo had
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| appeal to me in the art world, which is
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| | vision, but Masaccio had Purity and for
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| funny as these heart qualities often come
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| | me, Purity winsEd Silverton is an artist
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| to the fore when I'm trying to do
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| | from Bristol. He studied art at Bristol
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| something myself. Maybe it's because so
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| | College and works as a freelance artist
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| much of what is in the art- world does
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| | specialising in ceramics and pottery. His
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| not appeal to me that I welcome the
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| | work embodies beauty and simplicity. His
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| `justice-light' aspect of powerful art. I
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| | art is influenced by his meditation
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| imagine it cutting through the dross of
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| | teacher Sri Chinmoy who is also an artist
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| mediocrity and soppy sentimentality that
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| | himself.
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