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M & M
Just a short post today, about a remarkable artistic lineage which set me thinking this morning. Around 1920, Claude Monet painted a...

Haydn Dickenson
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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THE BIG FIVE - O!
Something a little irreverent (though not intentionally irrelevant) for today – I'm allowed to, for today's post marks this blog's...

Haydn Dickenson
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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INNER AND OUTER SPACE AND OTHER THOUGHTS
Of all twentieth century artists, the American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) arguably embodies most fully the...

Haydn Dickenson
Apr 2, 20234 min read
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THOUGHTS AND AFTERTHOUGHTS
A piece of writing which I much admire is the collection of essays, MUSICAL THOUGHTS AND AFTERTHOUGHTS, by the great pianist Alfred...

Haydn Dickenson
Mar 22, 20233 min read
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IN RETROSPECT
I have painted all my life. Like most children, my earliest efforts were abstract ones! I went on to draw the obligatory houses and...

Haydn Dickenson
Jan 13, 20234 min read
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CAN ART EVER BE TRULY ORIGINAL?
Art has always fired me up, even at a young age when my creative life was veering, due to paternal pressure, towards Music. As a boy, I...

Haydn Dickenson
Sep 23, 20224 min read
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