Victory for liberty
Victory for liberty enshrined in constitutional monarchy and the steadfast handling and stoic character of the Queen, who defied...
stephen HORNSBY-SMITH
- Sep 9
21st century modernist Painter
Modernist Paintings are best explained by the music of Janacek, Walker, Stravinsky and Britton. These composers upgraded the figurative...
- Jul 29
Sovereignty requires self determination
The disregarding of Painting as a credible medium by those on high certainly did not anticipate or desire any spin-off such as according...
- Jul 29
Post Cold Fever
We have seen the avatar of the Russian experiment to cede power to Capitalism animated by its own brand of 'Democracy theatre' and...
- Jun 29
The West was meant to deconstruct itself, but instead it watched the Soviet regimes come unstuck
So, the West was meant to devour itself by Soviet counter-structuralism, but instead of self-deconstruction the West reinvented its terms...
- Jun 13
The Art world fails its brief if only 'non-Painting' is valid
The Art world fails its basic brief, that it hides in sophistry, if its reductive modus operandi only countenances 'non-Painting Art'. An...
- May 25
In pursuit of Paint
The litmus test of social friction and ideological anxiety is gauged by how high or low the status of the medium of Painting is? I will...
- May 24
In its Absence
Did Painting exercise considerable influence in absentia in the West and placed Sovietism on the rack in the East? That would be a yes....
- May 22
Progress Not By Internalisation
Europe has been unravelling and overextending at the same time with Russia invading Ukraine just at the moment when the French elect...
- Mar 9
Flying Kites And Experimenting With Avatars
The Avatar or zeitgeist of post-Cold War thinking may still prove controversial Sometimes if you have to fly kites or drones for INTEL...
- Mar 5
The people's greatest ally is protest!
Even when corrupt leaders disrupt, the people's greatest ally is protest! It's the Ukraine's greatest ally and the West's greatest...
- Dec 22, 2021
Post-colonial Britain is still resented as a ‘Victorian dinosaur’
Post-colonial Britain is still resented as a ‘Victorian dinosaur’ as well as a victim of Thatcherite de-unionisation rather than her...
- Oct 21, 2021
Contentious Limitation
A rigid definition of a society mutually inclusive or exclusive from the economy is a limitation that is contentious! Why? Let's see!...
- Apr 5, 2021
Why Now? And What Makes This 'Art' Today Different?
Painting has recovered its prescience by an evolution of a staggered, ecclectic and often a leading paradox of its day, for a number of...
- Mar 18, 2021
The New Public Art
The “Public Art” of the 21st. century isn't a location or destination but a totally unique reformation of what is public art by rebirth....
- Oct 7, 2020
The Key to Success...
...is about who you prevent going to a rival club The transfer market enables or disables each Premier League club challenge – in theory...
- Oct 5, 2020
The Brain of the Universe
The brain of the universe may be controlled or contained by greater exploration of the 'human soul' that could be unlocked if we used...
- Oct 1, 2020
Number 3
Wouldn't you prefer to avoid and neglect the decision-making of invidious moral dilemmas? For example, do you invest in keeping 30...
- Sep 30, 2020
Easter
S- Is this still about Easter ? R- I know right? S- You can't keep blaming your mother for missing Easter 1993 Randall? She was busy...
- Sep 26, 2020
My eyes are falling
S- Do you not see that Randall? R- I'll add it to my mother's to do list ! 'She is a sweet old Lady' S- I know right?! R-I was being...