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Art, Landscape, Literature

Responses: Poems On Landscape and Melancholy

Throughout 2016, I’ve been trying to respond to artwork about landscape in more ways than simply essays.  I found that in trying convey work that I liked, there was only so far I could go with conventional journalistic and essay writing.  At the tail-end of each response article, I’ve been sneaking in a poem about the work and its themes so thought it would be … Continue reading Responses: Poems On Landscape and Melancholy

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Art, Landscape

Responses: Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook (1980)

Henry Moore enjoyed the grazing calmness of sheep. The animals stand out in the landscape in the same, oblique way as his own sculptures, simultaneously fitting in and seeming anomalous. They litter the vista in a way that is puzzling and warmly mysterious. Writer Roger Deakin recognised this relationship himself when walking the Rhinogs. He wrote of seeing that same relationship that sparked Moore’s fascination … Continue reading Responses: Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook (1980)

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