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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


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


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


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


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


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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