InTrivia

Month: September, 2012

Drumming at Gillett Square, Dalston

Gillett Square is not a traditional London public square of the Georgian or Victorian type. Darkened bricks and clean oil painted moldings do not face a railed lawn; shiny plaques advertising professional services do not appear on sturdy gloss finished doors; and no office or council worker sleeps through their lunch break on a memorial [...]

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, at the National Gallery, London

Inspiration is a difficult word. Many artists seek it, whilst others deny its existence. The alternative to inspiration is investigation: a laborious approach that sometimes leads to a life’s work. Transcription can be the convenient middle ground between inspiration and investigation. Titian was a painter during the Renaissance: a period when almost all works of [...]