by Tom Tomaszewski | Jul 6, 2021 | Interiors
| Triple Mona Lisa, Andy Warhol, 1963 | When I look at any Warhol painting I see something about elaboration – what Derrida called an ‘American’ form of abuse. Warhol’s response to America: not to forget elaboration. Someone asked me to...
by Tom Tomaszewski | May 3, 2021 | Interiors
| Lady with Ermine, Leonardo da Vinci, 1489-91 | I spent most of an hour looking at this wonderful painting last time I visited Krakow. Arriving at the airport I noticed a life-sized cut-out of her. Poles have a way of attracting attention. That took up about ten...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Apr 22, 2021 | Interiors
| View from the artist’s studio, Le Cannet, Bonnard, 1945 | Bonnard’s work seems to suggest a hiatus. All of it: as if something is opening, a gap is appearing, something is forming but who knows what yet. I feel as if this is now, to me. So much is...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Apr 4, 2021 | Interiors
| Street Scene in Paris, Vallotton, 1895 | Coming out of lock-down means for many people re-grouping: going back to work, or to some other kind of organisation where people need to get along with each other. Many people, I imagine, won’t. They will not put up...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Feb 28, 2021 | Interiors
Our pasts do not determine us. We become who we are according to how we orientate ourselves towards the future. How we each imagine the future, and how the promise of the future is affected by our understanding, our experience, conscious and unconscious, of our...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Jan 12, 2021 | Interiors
| Wilton Diptych, 1395-1399 | Before we get to thinking about words, I’d like to introduce a picture. The Wilton diptych is one of the first pieces of art I ever looked at closely even though my first sight of it, when I was a child and I caught a glimpse of it...
