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Thanks Vivien! This all looks very interesting.

Sadly, I started with the Jackson Pollock thing and must now turn my computer over to Mo so it will be a bit before I get to check out all of the other links!

Sozlet would probably like it as well

Oh, Vivien, the Pollock things is exquisite fun. Thanks; I'll never be bored again.

I love Da Vincis drawings!!Pollack for me isnt all that.

Is it Turner that did those hazy views of the Thames?

I also love Alphonse Mucha, Waterhouse and Rosetti.

I do like Pollock

- lots of artists did hazy views of the Thames! London used to have terrible problems with smog so seeing it like that was very very common! Turner is pure magic and was doing impressionist work way before the Impressionists - they saw his work in London and it must have influenced them. He certainly painted the Thames amongst loads of other places. Monet and Whistler did some pretty good hazy Thames scenes. Turner painted the Houses of Parliament burning seen from across the Thames.

I can appreciate the pre-Raphaelites but they aren't quite my taste. They are very pretty - and often moralising. A bit too saccharine for me. Birmingham has a wonderful collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings if you are interested, and there's the Lady Lever museum collection at Port Sunlight near Liverpool as well.

I think you are in the north aren't you?

I did this image for a project on my daughter and used a Rosetti image

my daughter has a habit of flicking her hair back .... and checking in mirrors! so I combined her with part of a Rosetti painting and put her objects around her on her side. It's a digital image created in Photoshop.

Nah, Im down south.
I went to the Tae modern a while back but Id like to g the Tate Britain and see some proper art.

I like the Rothko's at Tate Modern but hate the British paintings from earlyish last century - Vanessa Bell and her crowd. Some of the temporary stuff is good and some ...... oh dear!

The Turners are worth seeing at Tate Britain, especially if the sketchbooks are on show.

I like to visit the galleries in Cork street and the surrounding area because they have some really good stuff (- and some that you wonder what idiot is going to buy!)

There's a Samuel Palmer show that Walter pointed out coming up - that should be interesting.

I like the Rothko's at Tate Modern but hate the British paintings from earlyish last century - Vanessa Bell and her crowd. Some of the temporary stuff is good and some ...... oh dear!

The Turners are worth seeing at Tate Britain, especially if the sketchbooks are on show.

I like to visit the galleries in Cork street and the surrounding area because they have some really good stuff (- and some that you wonder what idiot is going to buy!)

There's a Samuel Palmer show that Walter pointed out coming up - that should be interesting.

Yeah, but that Vanessa was some beauty.
Who's afraid of Vanessa Bell?