http://www.eyelashjam.co.uk/2006/08/21/passport-to-pimlico/ The Intermittant and oft Incoherent Outpourings of one Mr James Leahy ESQ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:13:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.eyelashjam.co.uk/2006/08/21/passport-to-pimlico/comment-page-1/#comment-813 maz Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:37:57 +0000 http://www.eyelashjam.co.uk/2006/08/21/passport-to-pimlico/#comment-813 The x-rays of paintings are often amazing - you can see the thought processes, mistakes and changes of heart of the artist, ad sometimes where the paintings were censored. The faces that stare out from the x-rays are like ghosts trapped inside the picture. I doubt I will ever be convinced that the art that crops up in a lot of the books at the college could ever hold as much merit. For example the peice of performance art where a man filmed himself drawing on paper with a pencil that was stuck up his bum. Even the much lauded Cy Twombly's stuff looks more like a naughty 2 year old's scribbling than the work of a career spanning over 50 years. The x-rays of paintings are often amazing – you can see the thought processes, mistakes and changes of heart of the artist, ad sometimes where the paintings were censored. The faces that stare out from the x-rays are like ghosts trapped inside the picture. I doubt I will ever be convinced that the art that crops up in a lot of the books at the college could ever hold as much merit. For example the peice of performance art where a man filmed himself drawing on paper with a pencil that was stuck up his bum. Even the much lauded Cy Twombly’s stuff looks more like a naughty 2 year old’s scribbling than the work of a career spanning over 50 years.

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