Fuseli, German Romantic 2006-2026 Fuseli: a German romantic, a lover of Shakespeare and the Gothic, friend of Blake, a painter of remarkable sensibility and psychological perception, a forerunner of the Symbolists. Nightmare, of which he did several versions, was something of an obsession....
What was the attraction in big women for Fellini? It wasn't that he disliked thin ones - far from it! Yet most of his films have room for an over sized Junonic actress: Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita and the unforgettable, matronly tobacconist who overwhelms the young Fellini in Amarcord...
Klimt painted two versions of the bloody biblical story of the slaying of Holofernes by the Jewish patriot Judith, the second he painted after his visit to Ravenna where the Byzantine gold mosaics had a profound affect on his technique. In both versions Judith holds the decapitated head...
This photo was taken in 1989 and inspired not by work of art but an aftershave advertisement. I have blogged it because this picture taken over 20 years ago has become topical. The caption reads, 'Men's Perfume, Stories about Women'. I built a set as best I could with five friends...
